Roma Demographics
COUNTRY |
TOTAL POPULATION |
EVANGELICAL PROTESTANTS1 |
Central & Eastern Europe | Operation World
Estimates |
Minority Rights Group
Estimates |
|
Albania |
80,000+
|
90,000 - 100,000
|
"only a few"
|
Bosnia-Herzegovina |
400,000
|
40,000 - 50,000
|
|
Bulgaria |
300,000
|
700,000 - 800,000
|
10,000 - 80,0002
|
Croatia |
131,000
|
30,000 - 40,000
|
|
Czech Republic |
300,000
|
250,000 - 300,000
|
|
Hungary |
380,000
|
400,000 - 800,0003
|
|
Macedonia |
200,000
|
220,000 - 260,000
|
|
Poland |
30,000
|
50,000 - 60,000
|
|
Romania |
2,000,000
|
1,800,000 - 2,500,000
|
15,000 - 90,0002
|
Serbia & Montenegro |
300,000
|
400,000 - 450,000
|
8,500 - 17,000
|
Slovakia |
453,000
|
480,000 - 520,000
|
|
Slovenia |
8,000 - 10,000
|
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Subtotal |
4,468,000 - 5,890,000
|
33,500 - 187,000
|
Former Soviet Union | |||
Belarus |
10,000 - 15,000
|
||
Estonia |
1,000 - 1,500
|
||
Latvia |
8,000
|
2,000 - 3,500
|
|
Lithuania |
3,000 - 4,000
|
||
Moldova |
105,000
|
50,000 - 200,0004
|
|
Russia |
180,000
|
220,000 - 400,000
|
9,000
|
Ukraine |
47,000
|
50,000 - 60,000
|
|
Subtotal |
332,000
|
336,000 - 684,000
|
9,000
|
Totals |
4,826,000
|
4,804,000 - 6,574,000
|
33,500 - 205,000
|
Sources: Patrick Johnstone and Jason Mandryk, Operation World, Carlisle, England: WEC/Paternoster, 2001); European Roma Rights Center Fact Sheet (http://errc.org/); Rene Zanellato, Gypsy and Travelers International Evangelical Fellowship (GATIEF).
Editor's Note: The European Roma Rights Center Fact Sheet, noted above, gives official statistics, but these figures so seriously undercount Roma that they are not included here. See Roma and Statistics (Princeton, NJ: Project on Ethnic Relations, 2000).
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