In 2024, Ukrainian citizens crossed the border 30.11 million times, according to reports. At the same time, 2% of those who traveled abroad last year did not return to Ukraine, or 443,000 people.
This figure is 3.3 times higher than in 2023, when the difference between those who left and those who returned was 134 thousand, Opendatabot reports, citing data from the State Border Guard Service.
In total, over the three years of full-scale war, about 3 million citizens left Ukraine and did not return home. This is almost equal to the number of people who left in the previous pre-war years (2011-2021) – 3.3 million.
Border Guard Service data only covers official checkpoints. There is currently no information on Ukrainians who left the temporarily occupied territories or left illegally.
As of August 31, 2024, 4.2 million Ukrainians had temporary protection status in EU countries. The largest number of refugees were in Germany (1.1 million), Poland (975 thousand) and the Czech Republic (376 thousand).