Temporary protection for 4.3 million in October

On 31 October 2025, a total of 4.3 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine had temporary protection status in the EU. Compared with the end of September 2025, the total number of people from Ukraine under temporary protection decreased by 6 170 (-0.1%).

The EU countries hosting the highest number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine were Germany (1 229 960 people; 28.6% of the EU total), Poland (965 005; 22.5%) and Czechia (393 005; 9.1%).

In October 2025, EU countries issued 74 175 new decisions providing temporary protection. This is the second highest monthly total in 2025, after the peak observed in September (79 525). These high numbers follow a decree by the Ukrainian government at the end of August 2025, giving men aged 18 to 22 inclusive the right to leave Ukraine without hindrance.

Source datasets: migr_asytpsm and migr_asytpspop

The highest ratios of temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people were observed in Czechia (36.0), Poland (26.4) and Estonia (25.5), whereas the corresponding figure at the EU level was 9.5 per thousand people.

On 31 October 2025, Ukrainian citizens represented over 98.4% of the beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU. Adult women made up 43.8% of the beneficiaries. Minors accounted for almost one third (30.8%), while adult men comprised slightly more than a quarter (25.5%) 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.