More than 32 million border crossings were recorded in Ukraine Over 11 months of 2023. This is 1.6 million or 5% more than during the same period in 2022. At the same time, the difference between those who left and those who returned to Ukraine is 142,000, or less than 1%.
These figures are provided by the open data platform Opendatabot, based on data from the State Border Service.
According to the platform, a total of 14 million people returned to Ukraine in the first half of 2023, and 14.1 million left the country. The difference between those who left Ukraine and those who returned is 142,000. The figures in question are the number of times Ukrainians crossed the state border.
This is 15 times less than in the first year of the full-scale war. In 2022, the difference between those who left Ukraine and those who returned was 2.2 million.
According to the report, while at the beginning of the year Ukrainians left more often than they returned, this trend has changed since July.
The peak of returns in 2023 was in April and August: approximately 114,000 Ukrainian citizens returned home in these months.