At the end of July 2024, the EU countries hosting the highest number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine were Germany (1 110 600 people; 26.9% of the EU total), Poland (976 205; 23.7%) and Czechia (369 610; 9.0%). The number of persons under temporary protection relative to the EU population was 9.2 per thousand people at the end of July 2024. Among the EU countries, the highest ratios were observed in Czechia (33.9), ahead of Lithuania (27.4) and Poland (26.7). Latvia and Estonia are next, both having a figure of 24.6.
In comparison with the end of June 2024, Germany reported a significant decrease in the number of persons under temporary protection by the end of July 2024, with a reduction of 236,925 people (-17.6%). The decline observed in Germany is due to a methodological change that, starting in July 2024, removed from the stock of persons under temporary protection all the individuals whose temporary protection status was no longer valid either because they have been granted with another protection status or definitely left the German territory.
At the end of July 2024, adult women represented 45.3% of beneficiaries of temporary protection, 54.9% of them were women aged 35 to 64 years. Children represented 32.4%, while the proportion of adult men in the total number of beneficiaries of temporary protection was 22.4%.
During the second quarter of 2024, EU countries issued 195 270 decisions providing temporary protection. This is the lowest quarterly number of decisions since the beginning of the Russian invasion. Compared with the first quarter of 2024, the number of decisions during the second quarter of 2024 decreased by 0.8%.
In Latvia the number of people granted protection has risen slightly over the last three months of data. In May there were 525 people granted protection, in June there were 540 and in July there were 635.
