- Estimated Roma Population of Europe: 1939, 1945, and 1998
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▪ TableEstimated Roma Population of Europe: 1939, 1945, and 1998Country 1939 1945 1998Romania 300,000 (. . .)1 2,341,000Yugoslavia 100,000 (. . .)2Serbia and Montenegro 444,000Macedonia 349,000Croatia 57,000Bosnia and Herzegovina 49,000Slovenia 12,000Bulgaria 80,000 (. . .)3 892,000Spain & Portugal (. . .) (. . .)3 786,000CzechoslovakiaSlovakia 80,000 (. . .)4 598,000Czech Republic 10,000 c. 200-300 319,000U.S.S.R. including 600,000-Baltic States 207,000 (. . .)5 1,000,0006Hungary 100,000 (. . .)7 585,000France 40,000 c. 13,000 310,000Greece (. . .) (. . .)3 183,000Germany 18,800 0000008 123,000Austria 11,200 0000008 23,000Albania 20,000 (. . .)3 123,000Italy 25,000 (. . .)3 97,000British Isles (. . .) (. . .)3 89,000Poland 20,000 c. 6, 000 77,000Low Countries 1,200 (. . .)3 50,000Scandinavia (. . .) (. . .)9 43,0009Switzerland 4,200 (. . .)3 (. . .)Total 1,017,400 c. 417,000- 8,150,000-797,000 8,550,000(. . . ) - insufficient data● 1No outright extermination policy, but tens of thousands met their death through expulsion.● 2Unknown number of 30,000 Croatian and Bosnian Roma murdered at Jasenovac concentration camp, Croatia.● 3Roma population not deported.● 4Hundreds of Roma murdered in pogromlike rampages by fascists.● 5Many nomadic Roma murdered by Nazi secret army field police; sedentary Roma treated as citizens of country.● 6International Federation for Human Rights, The Roma of Russia (November 2004); estimate is for all countries of the former Soviet Union.● 731,000 deported to camps; 3,000 returned from camps.● 8Combined total for Germany and Austria in 1945 was c. 7,000.● 9Excludes Norway.Principal sources: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (for 1939 data), Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (for most 1945 data), European Roma Rights Centre (for most 1998 data). Note: 1998 population estimates of the European Roma Rights Centre are higher than most official country census estimates.See as table:
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Universalium. 2010.