Compared with August 2022, the number of Ukrainians receiving temporary protection fell in 18 of the 25 EU Member States with available data. The largest decreases were observed in Poland (-13 735 people compared with August 2022), followed by Germany (-10 160) and France (-2 830). Meanwhile, the highest increases were recorded in Ireland (+900), Denmark (+345) and Cyprus (+105). Minor increases (+10 or less) were recorded in Luxembourg, Malta and Romania. No changes were recorded in Bulgaria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On 30 September 2022, and among the countries for which data are available, Poland reported the highest number of Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection with a total of 1.4 million, followed by Germany (813 725 Ukrainian beneficiaries), Spain (145 825) and Bulgaria (134 790). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Data presented in this article refer to the grants of temporary protection 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 Russia\u2019s invasion, and having the effect of introducing temporary protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Compared with the population of each Member State, the highest ratio of Ukrainian citizens granted temporary protection in September 2022 per thousand inhabitants was recorded in Estonia (1.8 granted temporary protection per thousand inhabitants), followed by Poland (1.4) and Lithuania, Latvia and Ireland (all 1.0).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
30% of Ukrainians seeking protection in Germany were children<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Germany granted the highest number of temporary protections for Ukrainian children (persons under 18 years old) with a total of 15 460 (representing 30% of Ukrainians granted protection in Germany in September 2022), followed by Poland (13 980, 26%) and Romania (2 865, 29%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Notably, in all countries for which September 2022 data are available, children below the age of 14 represented between 61% to 87% of all children granted temporary protection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Predominantly female Ukrainians seek protection in the EU Member States <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the EU Member States for which data are available, the majority of Ukrainians granted temporary protection were females, including girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The largest numbers of females who received temporary protection were reported by Poland (33 650, representing 63% of Ukrainians granted protection in Poland in September), Germany (30 785, or 59%) and Romania (5 605, or 58%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similarly, the largest numbers of males who received temporary protection were also reported by Germany (21 110, or 41%), Poland (19 900, or 37%) and Romania (4 115, or 42%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: Eurostat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In September 2022, among the EU Member States for which data are available, Poland granted the highest number of temporary protection statuses to Ukrainians fleeing Ukraine (53 545) as a consequence of Russia\u2019s invasion. Poland was followed by Germany (51 980), Romania (9 715), Spain (5 745) and Ireland (4 925).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russo-ukrainian-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}