According to the Opendatabot research, about 99% of Ukrainians who left in 2023 have already returned to Ukraine. Over 32 million border crossings were recorded in Ukraine in 11 months of 2023. And, as reported, the difference between those who left and those who returned to Ukraine is a little over 140 thousand, less than 1%.
The Opendatabot study, which refers to the data of the Administration of the State Border Service, states that 32.6 million state border crossings were recorded in Ukraine in 11 months of 2023, and this is 1.6 million or 5% more border crossings than in the similar period of 2022.
“A total of 14 million people returned to Ukraine in the incomplete year of 2023, and 14.1 million left the country,” the study reports. “The difference between those who left Ukraine and those who returned is 142,000.” We are talking directly about the number of crossings of the state border by Ukrainians.
For comparison, this indicator is 15 times less than what was recorded in the first year of a full-scale war. So, in 2022, the difference between those who left Ukraine and those who returned was 2.2 million. At that time, the Opendatabot study reported that “blackouts and terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation increased the number of Ukrainian refugees by 2%.” “If in September more people returned home than left, then in October and November the situation changed,” the report stated at the end of December 2022.
It is also reported that at the beginning of the year, Ukrainians left more often than returned, but this trend has changed since July. The peak of returns in 2023 fell in April and May – in these months, approximately 114,000 more citizens returned to the territory of Ukraine than left.
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