On 31 March 2026, a total of 4.33 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine had temporary protection status in the EU. Compared with the end of February 2026, the total number of people from Ukraine under temporary protection decreased by 68 980 (-1.6%).
The EU countries hosting the highest number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine were Germany (1 274 955 people; 29.4% of the EU total), Poland (961 405; 22.2%) and Czechia (379 820; 8.8%).
Among EU countries, the number of people under temporary protection increased in 14 countries and decreased in 13. The largest absolute increases were observed in Germany (+7 480; +0.6%), Spain (+2 665; +1.0%) and Romania (+2 125; +1.0%). The largest decrease was recorded in Italy (-30 365; -47.4%), due to a simultaneous expiry of a large number of permits at the end of the month linked to the annual permit renewal procedure. This was followed by Czechia (-19 810; -5.0%) and Finland (-8 080; -10.2%).
Source datasets: migr_asytpsm and migr_asytpspop
The highest ratios of temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people were observed in Czechia (34.8), Poland (26.3) and Slovakia (26.2), whereas the corresponding figure at the EU level was 9.6 per thousand people.
On 31 March 2026, Ukrainian citizens represented over 98.4% of the beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU. Adult women made up 43.3% of the beneficiaries. Minors accounted for almost one third (30.1%), while adult men comprised slightly more than a quarter (26.6%) of the total.
Data presented in this article refer to the attribution of temporary protection status based on the Council Implementing Decision 2022/382 of 4 March 2022, establishing the existence of a mass influx of displaced persons from Ukraine due to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, and introducing temporary protection.
On 13 June 2025, the European Council adopted the decision to extend the temporary protection for these people from 4 March 2026 to 4 March 2027.