As of 31 May 2025, 4.28 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine as a result of the Russian war against Ukraine had temporary protection status in the EU, Eurostat reported. The EU countries hosting the largest number of people from Ukraine granted temporary protection are Germany (1,192,840 people; 27.9% of the EU total), Poland (986,845 people; 23.1%) and the Czech Republic (373,675 people; 8.7%).
Compared to the end of April 2025, at the end of May the total number of people from Ukraine benefiting from temporary protection in the EU increased by 10,825 people (+0.3%). The number of beneficiaries of temporary protection increased in 23 EU countries, with the three largest absolute increases observed in Germany (+3,485; +0.3%), the Czech Republic (+3,075; +0.8%) and Spain (+2,110; +0.9%). The three largest decreases were recorded in Bulgaria (-9,270; -12.5%), France (-445; -0.8%) and Slovakia (-155; -0.1%), BTA adds.
Compared to the population of each EU country, the highest ratio of beneficiaries of temporary protection per thousand people was observed in the Czech Republic (34.3), Poland (26.9) and Estonia (24.9), while the corresponding value at the EU level was 9.5 per thousand people.
As of 31 May 2025, Ukrainian citizens accounted for over 98.4% of beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU.
Adult women accounted for almost half (44.6%) of those granted protection. Minors accounted for almost a third (31.4%) and adult men for less than a quarter (23.9%) of the total.
The data presented in this article refer to the granting of temporary protection status on the basis of Council Implementing Decision 2022/382 of 4 March 2022 establishing the existence of a mass inflow of persons displaced from Ukraine due to Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine and granting temporary protection, Eurostat also reports.
On 13 June 2025, the European Council adopted a decision extending the period of temporary protection for these persons from 4 March 2026 to 4 March 2027.
Graphic: Eurostat
