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EUROSTAT - European Union Statistical Office
01/12/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/12/2026 04:09
Temporary protection for 4.33 million in November 2025
On 30 November 2025, a total of 4.33 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine had temporary protection status in the EU. Compared with the end of October 2025, the total number of people from Ukraine under temporary protection increased by 30 615 (+0.7%).
The EU countries hosting the highest number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine were Germany (1 241 000 people; 28.7% of the EU total), Poland (968 750; 22.4%) and Czechia (392 670; 9.1%).
Among the 26 EU countries with available data, the number of people under temporary protection increased in 21 countries, with the 3 largest absolute increases observed in Germany (+11 040; +0.9%), Poland (+3 745; +0.4%) and Spain (+2 810; +1.1%). Among the 5 EU countries that registered decreases, the highest decreases were observed in France (-870; -1.6%) and Lithuania (-575; -1.1%).
In November 2025, the monthly number of new decisions granting temporary protection in the EU (53 735) decreased by 32.5% and 27.8% compared with September and October 2025, respectively. The number of new decisions in November 2025 is falling back to a level similar to that before the Ukrainian government decree at the end of August 2025 giving men aged 18 to 22 inclusive the right to leave Ukraine without restriction.
Source datasets: migr_asytpsm and migr_asytpspop
The highest ratios of temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people were observed in Czechia (36.0), Poland (26.5) and Slovakia (25.7), whereas the corresponding figure at the EU level was 9.6 per thousand people.
On 30 November 2025, Ukrainian citizens represented over 98.4% of the beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU. Adult women made up 43.6% of the beneficiaries. Minors accounted for almost one third (30.7%), while adult men comprised slightly more than a quarter (25.7%) 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.
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