On 31 December 2024, nearly 4.3 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine as a consequence of the Russian war of aggression had temporary protection status in the EU. This is according to a Eurostat survey published today. “The EU countries hosting the highest number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine were Germany (1,161,450 people; 27.3% of the EU total), Poland (991,630; 23.3%) and Czechia (388,625; 9.1%)”. Compared with the population of each EU country, “the highest ratio of temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people were observed in Czechia (35.7), Poland (27.1) and Estonia (25.8) whereas the corresponding figure at the EU level was 9.5 per thousand people. At the end of last year, Ukrainian citizens accounted for 98.3% of the beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU. “Adult women made up almost half (44.8%) of the beneficiaries. Children accounted for almost one-third (31.9%), while adult men comprised less than a quarter (23.2%) of the total”.