The number of refugees who have fled Ukraine has now surpassed 4 million, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency.
More than half of the 4,019,287 refugees that left Ukraine from Feb. 24, the start of Russia’s military invasion, through March 29 have traveled to Poland. Besides the 2.3 million refugees Poland has taken in, Romania is the only other country to have already accepted more than 600,000 people.
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The Republic of Moldova, Hungary, Russia, and Slovakia have taken in between 280,000-390,000 refugees, whereas Belarus has taken in fewer than 11,000 people.
The refugee total passed the 3 million mark on March 15 and has averaged roughly a million refugees per week up until that point. However, it took roughly two weeks for the total to jump from 3 million to 4 million people.
The roughly 4 million people who have fled amount to slightly less than 10% of the country’s total population.
An additional 6.5 million Ukrainians have been displaced internally within the country, and more than 12 million have been affected in the areas hit hardest by the war, the agency said in a March 24 update.
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The Biden administration announced last week that the United States would take in up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reported on Tuesday there have been 1,179 civilians killed and another 1,860 wounded. However, they warned they believe the total to be “considerably higher,” but the war makes tallying injuries and deaths a difficult task. It’s unclear how much higher the total could be.
