Source page: McKinsey & Company
Commentary
Ukraine’s ongoing humanitarian crisis
Strategy | Europe
August 16, 2023 – Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, approximately 6.4 million refugees have relocated to neighboring countries, including Germany and the Czech Republic. Olivia White, a senior partner and a director of the McKinsey Global Institute, and coauthors note that many of those who left Ukraine have settled in some of Europe’s poorest nations, such as Estonia and Romania, putting a potential strain on the social safety net in those regions.
To read the article, see “War in Ukraine: Twelve disruptions changing the world—update,” July 28, 2023.
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Choropleth map with proportional circles.
Layout / body structure
A single Europe map fills the page, read geographically, with country shading underneath and refugee-volume circles layered on top.
What is being compared
It compares European recipient countries by two dimensions at once: the number of Ukrainian refugees received and the refugee share of each recipient country’s population.
Measurement system
The blue color scale tracks the share of the population earning under $30,000 per year, while circle size represents the refugee count in June 2023.
Visible structure inside the graphic
Country labels, blue fills, a population-income legend, and hollow-to-large circles work together so the reader can see both economic context and refugee concentration on the same map.
Main takeaway from the visual
The map shows refugees settling well beyond Ukraine’s immediate border and highlights that several of Europe’s poorer countries are carrying a meaningful share of the burden.
Key standout values or extremes
The page text anchors the refugee total at about 6.4 million, and the biggest circles are concentrated in the eastern and central part of the map rather than only in the wealthiest Western countries.
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