The largest absolute increases in the number of beneficiaries were observed in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Romania.
As of August 31, 2024, 4 million 163.66 thousand citizens who left Ukraine as a result of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022 had temporary protection status in EU countries, compared to 4 million 123.88 thousand citizens in the previous month. This is reported by Eurostat.
It is noted that compared to the end of July 2024, the largest absolute increase in the number of beneficiaries was observed in Germany (+11,730; +1.1%), the Czech Republic (+7,275; +2.0%) and Romania (+3,050). ; + 1.8%).
At the same time, the number of beneficiaries decreased in Poland (-1015; -0.1%), France (-680; -1.1%) and Luxembourg (-10; -0.3%).
Despite Germany denying almost 237 thousand people temporary protection status in July, it still remains the country with the largest number in the EU and in the world – 1 million 122.33 thousand at the end of August, or 27.0% of the total number of EU beneficiary.
It is followed by Poland – 975.19 thousand, or 23.4%, and the Czech Republic – 376.89 thousand, or 9.1%.
Spain remains in fourth place – 215.13 thousand compared to 203.3 thousand at the end of March.
According to Eurostat, the data for Spain, Greece and Cyprus take into account a proportion of people whose temporary protection status is no longer valid.
Compared to the population of each EU member, the highest number of temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people in August 2024 was observed in the Czech Republic (34.6), Lithuania (27.6) and Poland (26.6), while the corresponding figure at the EU level is 9.3.
It was noted that on August 31, 2024, citizens of Ukraine accounted for more than 98% of the beneficiaries of temporary protection. Female adults make up almost half (45.1%) of temporary protection recipients in the EU, children almost a third (32.3%), while male adults make up just over a fifth (22.6 %) of the total. A year earlier, the share of women was 46.5%, children 33.9% and adult men 19.5%.
Italy remained fifth in the number of refugees from Ukraine with temporary protection status in the EU with 166.80 thousand, which is 0.60 thousand more than the number of July.
More than 100 thousand such people at the end of August 2024 are also in the Netherlands – 116.90 thousand, Slovakia – 125.92 thousand and Ireland – 107.44 thousand.
From 50 thousand to 100 thousand they were counted in Belgium – 83.24 thousand, Lithuania – 79.74 thousand, Austria – 80.27 thousand, Norway – 74.96 thousand, Finland – 66.49 thousand, Switzerland – 66.48 thousand, Portugal – 63.01 thousand, France – 60.67 thousand. (Data on children is largely excluded – Eurostat) and Bulgaria – 62.51 thousand.
Next came Latvia – 46.51 thousand people, Sweden – 43.73 thousand, Hungary – 37.53 thousand, Denmark – 35.79 thousand, Estonia – 33.84 thousand, Greece – 31.48 thousand, Croatia – 25.22 thousand, Cyprus – 21.13 thousand, Iceland – 3.91 thousand, Luxembourg. – 3.81 thousand, Malta – 2.13 thousand and Liechtenstein – 0.65 thousand.
All data relate to the granting of temporary protection based on the EU Council Decision 2022/382 of 4 March 2022, which establishes the existence of a massive influx of displaced persons from Ukraine due to the Russian military aggression and provides for the introduction of temporary protection.
According to UNHCR data, the number of Ukrainian refugees in Europe on September 16 of this year was estimated at 6.218 million, and a total of 6.780 million in the world, which is 134 thousand and 125 thousand more, respectively, than a months earlier. .
We remind you that in Norway, from September 27, the automatic reception of protection for Ukrainian refugees from six regions of Ukraine – Lviv, Volyn, Transcarpathian, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil and Rivne.
As reported, the Swedish authorities plan to pay migrants, refugees and political asylum seekers about 34 thousand dollars for voluntarily leaving the country and returning to their homeland.
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Source: korrespondent
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