Interior Ministry: over 1 million foreigners living in Czechia

As of June 30 this year, there were 1,036,798 foreigners living in the Czech Republic, according to the Interior Ministry's report on migration, which is published quarterly on its website. More than half of the total number of foreigners, 551,113 people, are Ukrainians. Slovaks made up the second-largest group with 118,130 people and Vietnamese people the third-largest with 67,047. Russians made up 42,505 of the total.

Around a third of the total number, 350,214 people, had temporary protection in Czechia, which Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war are entitled to. Roughly another third, 342,186 people, had permanent residence in the country, while 344,398 had temporary residence.

Last year, the number of foreigners living in Czechia exceeded one million people for the first time in the country's history as a result of the wave of refugees from Ukraine. The authorities registered 1,116,154 foreigners living in the country as of last December, so the number has slightly decreased since then.