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The European Office for Statistics, Eurostat has revealed that in January of this year, Poland granted 28,445 temporary protection statuses to Ukrainian refugees, ranking first.
Such data show that in the second place is Germany with 28,205 protection statuses followed by Romania with 8,955 and Spain with 4,250, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.
According to Eurostat, compared to December last year, the number of temporary protection statuses granted in January 2023 fell in 21 of the 25 EU members.
The biggest decreases were seen in Poland with -3,415 compared to December 2022, followed by Romania with -2,305, Italy and Ireland both -2,000. Meanwhile, the biggest increase was recorded in Germany with +3,095.
In addition, as of January 31, 2023, the highest number of Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection was registered in Germany with 971,920 and Poland with 969,425.
Previously, the report provided by Eurostat showed that in October last year, Poland granted a total of 54,520 temporary protection statuses to Ukrainian citizens.
Eurostat also revealed that in the same month, Poland was followed by Germany with 37,595 protection statuses, Italy with 8,620, Romania with 8,425 and Bulgaria with 7,250.
The authority said that a total of 1.01 million Ukrainian refugees were benefiting from Poland’s temporary protection status by October.
In the same month, Germany granted this status to a total of 847,105 Ukrainians, followed by Spain with 148,630 and Bulgaria with 141,480.
Moreover, in August 2022, Poland and Germany granted the largest number of temporary protections to Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war.
In this regard, Eurostat noted that 67,280 people received temporary protection in Poland in August, while another 62,140 received temporary protection in Germany. According to the same, Romania ranks third with 9,715, followed by France with 6,410 and Spain with 6,165.
As for other countries, those that have the largest number of Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection are Spain with 139,965, Bulgaria with 130,290 and Slovakia with 86,965.
Furthermore, Eurostat statistics show that the majority or 28 per cent of those seeking protection in Poland in August last year, were minors under the age of 18, or about 19,120 of them were children. Meanwhile, in Germany, 30 per cent of the arrivals were children, including 18,545, and 31 per cent of the arrivals from Romania were also minors or 2,970.
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