Of that number, 47,645 currently have found refuge in Latvia, the figures show. To put that figure into perspective, it is comortably more than the entire population of Ventspils (42,000), Latvia’s sixth-largest city.
Compared with the population of each EU country, the highest ratio of temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people were observed in Czechia (35.3), Poland (27.0), Latvia and Estonia (both 25.5) whereas the corresponding figure at the EU level was 9.4 per thousand people.
On 30 November 2024, Ukrainian citizens represented over 98.3% of the beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU. Adult women made up almost half (44.9%) of the beneficiaries. Children accounted for almost one-third (32.0%), while adult men comprised less than a quarter (23.1%) of the total.
The EU countries hosting the highest number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine were Germany (1 152 620 people; 27.2% of the EU total), Poland (987 925; 23.3%) and Czechia (385 190; 9.1%).
Compared with the end of October 2024, the total number of persons under temporary protection at the end of November increased by 36 010 in the EU (+0.9%). The largest absolute increases in the number of beneficiaries were observed in Germany (+11 915; +1.0%), Czechia (+5 820; +1.5%) and Poland (+4 045; +0.4%). The number of people under temporary protection decreased only in Italy (-1 270; -0.8%), France (-695; -1.2%) and Luxembourg (-15; -0.4%).
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