Opendatabot analyzed data from the State Border Service and named the number of Ukrainians who left Ukraine in 2024 but did not return home.

In total, citizens crossed the borders of Ukraine 30.11 million times last year.. 2% of those who left did not return - about half a million citizens. Over the year, the number of Ukrainians not returning home has tripled, Opendatabot emphasizes..

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2% of Ukrainians who left last year and did not return to Ukraine - that’s 443 thousand, 3.3 times more than in 2023 - then the difference between those who left and those who returned was only 134 thousand. In 2024, the most people were “lost” in June - 194 thousand.

Only 3 months last year had a positive trend, when there were more citizens who returned to the country than those who left. Among them April - +58 thousand. , July - +23 thousand. and August - +89 thousand.

In total, about 3 million citizens did not return during 3 years of full-scale war, according to official data from the State Border Service. This is almost the same as in the 11 years preceding the full-scale invasion - that is, from 2011 to 2021 (3. 3 million).

It is worth noting that the data of the Border Guard Service of Ukraine reflects only information about citizens who traveled to official checkpoints. There is no reliable data yet on Ukrainians who left BOT or left illegally.

According to official EU data, 4.2 million Ukrainians had temporary protection status in the EU countries as of August 31, 2024. 60% of the total number of our refugees were sheltered together in Germany (1.1 million), Poland (975 thousand. ) and the Czech Republic (376 thousand.

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Let us remind you that according to the study, about 25% of Ukrainian refugees in Europe plan to settle permanently outside of Ukraine. Such survey data were published by the Munich Institute for Economic Research ifo based on a study conducted among Ukrainian refugees in June 2024.

The head of the ifo Migration Research Center, Panu Putvaara, said that about 35% of Ukrainian refugees want to return to Ukraine as soon as it is safe again. At the same time, despite the security situation, only 4% of respondents plan to return to Ukraine in the near future.

Now, according to the Institute, almost 11% of refugees who fled the war have already returned to Ukraine, and another 25% are undecided about their future.