Around 70% of working-age Ukrainian citizens who received temporary protection in the Czech Republic after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 are officially employed. This was reported by Ukraine’s Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Vasyl Zvarych, in an interview with Ukrinform.
According to the Ukrainian Embassy, there are currently about 370,000 Ukrainians with temporary protection status residing in the Czech Republic. Nearly 280,000 of them are people aged between 18 and 65. As the ambassador noted, 70% of this group are officially employed — a figure that stands out compared to neighboring Central European countries.
“This is a huge added value for the Czech economy. Official employment not only means work, but also regular tax payments, social and health insurance contributions that fill the Czech state budget,” Zvarych emphasized.
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According to official Czech government data, in 2023 alone, the amount of taxes paid by Ukrainians exceeded the total volume of social benefits received by them by $250 million. In the first quarter of 2024, this “surplus” already reached $130 million and is expected to surpass last year’s figure by the end of the year.