While the overwhelming majority of persons receiving temporary protection were Ukrainians, there were also citizens of other countries who received such status in the EU Member States, e.g. 405 Russians in Poland and 2,400 Nigerians and 410 Moroccans in Portugal.

Compared with May 2022, the number of Ukrainians receiving temporary protection fell in all 19 EU Member States with available data. The largest decreases were observed in Poland (-35,960 people compared with May 2022), followed by Lithuania (-13,405), Bulgaria (-12,945) and Romania (-10,075).

Based on the available data as of 30 June 2022, Poland had a total of 1.2 million Ukrainians benefitting from temporary protection. Bulgaria (118,810 Ukrainian beneficiaries), France (64,970), Lithuania (48,960), Belgium (47 945) and Romania (43,550) were the other Member States with the highest total numbers of Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection.

Data 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’s invasion, and having the effect of introducing temporary protection.

Compared with the population of each Member State, the ratio of granted temporary protections per thousand inhabitants was low. The highest ratio of Ukrainian citizens granted temporary protection in June 2022 was recorded in Poland (1.6 granted temporary protection per thousand inhabitants), followed by Latvia (1.5), Ireland (1.4) and Lithuania (1.3).

Poland granted the highest number of temporary protections for Ukrainian children (persons under 18 years old), a total of 15,445 (equivalent to 26% of Ukrainians granted protection in Poland in June 2022), followed by Romania with 3,815 (37%) and Bulgaria with 1,790 (26%).

Notably, in all countries for which June 2022 data are available, children below the age of 14 represented more than 70% of all children granted temporary protection.

In the EU Member States for which data are available, the majority of Ukrainians granted temporary protection were females, including girls. The largest number of females who received temporary protection were reported by Poland (41,675, or 69% of the Ukrainians granted protection in Poland in June), Romania (6,400, or 62%) and Bulgaria (4,255, or 61%).

Ukrainian boys below 18 years old represented around half of the temporary protection requests granted in Slovenia (57%), Romania (50%), Malta and Denmark (both 49%) while in Latvia (26%) and Portugal (28%) they represented around one-quarter of the requests.

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