The data of the State Border Service and the United Nations (UN) diverge twice as to the number of Ukrainians who left the country and did not return. According to the State Border Service, only 2.4 million Ukrainians have left and have not returned since the beginning of the big war.. However, according to the UN, the number of Ukrainian refugees abroad is 6.24 million people..

The information was made public on the open data platform Opendatabot, which compared government and UN data..

Comparing the data provided by the State Border Service and the UN, it can be seen that since the beginning of the war, there are 2.7 million people the difference between those who left and returned to Ukraine. Of this number, 2.4 million are citizens of Ukraine, and the rest are foreigners..

It is noted that the data of the State Border Service regarding persons who officially crossed the border of Ukraine differ significantly from the UN data.. United Nations reports 6.24 million Ukrainian refugees.

For the period from January 2022 to June 2023, 50 million crossings were made across the state border of Ukraine. Of these, 26.36 million people left the country and 23.66 million people entered.

During the first six months of 2023, 8.2 million citizens left Ukraine, and 7.97 million citizens returned. This difference is 230 thousand people, which is 11 times less than in the same period last year..

In the second half of 2022, the activity of citizens who returned to Ukraine increased, then 149 thousand more citizens arrived than left.

Despite the overwhelming number of departures, for the first half of 2023, the share of citizens who left Ukraine and did not return was only 3%. This is up from 27.5% in 2022 and 13.6% for all of last year..

There is also a tendency to increase the number of foreigners entering Ukraine. At the end of February 2023, this trend began to persist for a month.

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