Temporary protection for 4.35 million in December 2025

On 31 December 2025, a total of 4.35 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine had temporary protection status in the EU. Compared with the end of November 2025, the total number of people from Ukraine under temporary protection increased by 24 675 (+0.6%).

The EU countries hosting the highest number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine were Germany (1 250 620 people; 28.7% of the EU total), Poland (969 240; 22.3%) and Czechia (393 055; 9.0%).

Among the 26 EU countries with available data, the number of people under temporary protection increased in 22 countries, with the 3 largest absolute increases observed in Germany (+9 620; +0.8%), Spain (+2 235; +0.9%) and Romania (+2 160; +1.1%). Among the 4 EU countries that registered decreases, the highest were observed in France (-1250; -2.4%) and Estonia (-470; -1.3%).

Source datasets: migr_asytpsm and migr_asytpspop

The highest ratios of temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people were observed in Czechia (36.0), Poland (26.6) and Cyprus and Slovakia (both 25.8), whereas the corresponding figure at the EU level was 9.7 per thousand people.

On 31 December 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 (30.5%), while adult men comprised slightly more than a quarter (25.9%) 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.