Nicosia: Cyprus ranks among the EU countries with the highest ratios of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine per thousand inhabitants, recording 25.8 per thousand-more than double the EU average of 9.7 per thousand.
According to Cyprus News Agency, on 31 December 2025, a total of 4.35 million non-EU citizens who had fled Ukraine held temporary protection status in the European Union, as reported by the European Statistical Office (Eurostat). This marked an increase of 24,675 people (+0.6%) compared to the end of November 2025.
Cyprus, along with Slovakia, recorded a ratio of 25.8 beneficiaries per thousand inhabitants, following Czechia (36.0) and Poland (26.6). EU countries hosting the largest numbers 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, 22 experienced increases in temporary protection numbers, with Germany (+9,620; +0.8%), Spain (+2,235; +0.9%), and Romania (+2,160; +1.1%) seeing the largest rises. Conversely, France (-1,250; -2.4%) and Estonia (-470; -1.3%) registered significant decreases.
During this period, Ukrainian citizens constituted over 98.4% of temporary protection beneficiaries in the EU. Adult women accounted for 43.6% of beneficiaries, minors nearly one third (30.5%), and adult men slightly more than one quarter (25.9%).
This data pertains to temporary protection status granted under Council Implementing Decision 2022/382 of 4 March 2022, which responded to the mass influx of Ukrainian refugees due to Russian military aggression. On 13 June 2025, the European Council extended this protection from 4 March 2026 to 4 March 2027.