Roma people by country

This is a table of Roma people by country. Note that some countries with a Roma population are not included, where reliable sources could not be found, also many of the sources are outdated and/or supply only partial information only about a part of the Roma groups in a certain country. The official number of Roma people is disputed in many countries, because many Roma individuals often refuse to register their ethnic identity for fear of discrimination, [ [http://other-news.info/index.php?p=172#more-172 Other News » It Now Suits the EU to Help the Roma ] ] determining parallel unofficial censuses, surveys and estimations in order to reveal the true numbers.

Country table
Headings = Population !! Roma groups
AFG = 13,000 [ [http://www.joshuaproject.net/countries.php] Ethnic groups of Afghanistan] !! Balkan Roma, Zargari
ALA =
ALB = Disputed: 1,300 to 120,000 [http://www.greekhelsinki.gr/pdf/cedime-se-albania-roma.doc] !! Ashkali
DZA = unknown number
ASM =
AND =
AGO =
AIA =
ATA =
ATG =
ARG = 300,000 [ [http://www.web4desi.com/Articles/36-ArticlesbyJorgeMFernandezBernal/52-the-rom-in-the-americas?start=1 Jorge M. Fernandez Bernal, "The Rom of the Americas" (chapter Argentina)] [http://www.errc.org/cikk.php?cikk=1847 ERRC] ] !! Kalderash, Boyash, Kale
ARM = unknown number !! Lom, Bosha
ABW =
AUS = 5,000+ [ [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=rme Ethnologue report for language code:rme ] ] !! Romnichal, Boyash
AUT = 20,000-25,000Jean-Pierre Liégeois, "Roma, Tsiganes, Voyageurs", p.34, Conseil de l'Europe, 1994] !! Burgenland-Roma, Sinti, Lovari, Arlije from Macedonia, Kalderash from Serbia, Gurbeti from Serbia and Macedonia
AZE = ca. 2,000ru icon [http://www.echo-az.com/archive/2006_12/1481/obshestvo06.shtml Our Roma Neighbours] by Kamal Ali. "Echo". 30 December 2006. Retrieved 29 April 2007] !! Garachi
BHS =
BHR =
BGD =
BRB =
BLR = 10,000 or 50,000 to 60,000 [ [http://belstat.gov.by/homep/en/census/p5.php POPULATION CENSUS' 1999 ] ] [ [http://www.belarus-misc.org/gene-rom.htm ] : From 50,000 to 60,000 Gypsies currently live in Belarus, mostly in the provinces of Homel (Gomel) and Mahilau (Mogilyov), and especially in the towns and cities of Bobruisk, Zhlobin, Gomel, Kalinkovichi, Zhitkovichi, Mogilyov, Vitebsk, Minsk, and Turov.] !!
BEL = 10,000-15,000 !! Romungro
BLZ =
BEN =
BMU =
BTN =
BOL = unknown number !! Kalderash
BIH = 60,000 or 80,000
and 400,000 Vlax Roma [ [http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR630142006 Bosnia and Herzegovina: Roma and the right to education. Factsheet | Amnesty International ] ] [ [http://www.gfbv-sa.com.ba/romabihe.html Roma of Bosnia and Herzegovina ] ] [ [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=BA Ethnologue report for Bosnia] : 400,000 Vlax Romani speakers in Bosnia] !!
BWA =
BVT =
BRA = 678,000-1,000,000 [ [http://www.presidencia.gov.br/seppir/informativos/not/001.htm Official data: 678,000]
[http://www.web4desi.com/Articles/36-ArticlesbyJorgeMFernandezBernal/52-the-rom-in-the-americas?start=2 800,000-1,000,000 in "The Rom of the Americas" (chapter Brazil), by Jorge M. Fernandez Bernal] ] !! Kale, Kalderash, Machvaya, Xoraxane, Boyash
IOT =
BRN =
BGR = Disputed: 370,908 (official census)
to 800,000 [ According to the last official census in 2001 370,908 Bulgarian citizens define their identity as Roma (official results [http://www.nsi.bg/Census_e/Ethnos.htm here] ). 313,000 self-declared in 1992 census (Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov, "The Gypsies of Bulgaria: Problems of the Multicultural Museum Exhibition" (1995), cited in [http://www.geocities.com/~patrin/bulgaria-hstry.htm Patrin Web Journal] ). According to Marushiakova and Popov, "The Roma in Bulgaria", Sofia, 1993, the people who declared Roma identity in 1956 were about 194,000; in 1959 - 214,167; in 1976 - 373,200; because of the obvious and significant difference between the number of Bulgarian citizens with Roma self-identification and this of the large total population with physical appearance and cultural particularity similar to Roma in 1980 the authorities took special census of all people, defined as Roma through the opinions of the neighbouring population, observations of their way of life, cultural specificity, etc. - 523,519; in the 1989 the authorities counted 576,927 people as Roma, but noted that more than a half of them preferred and declared Turkish identity (pages 92-93). According to the rough personal assumption of Marushiakova and Popov the total number of all people with Roma ethic identity plus all people of Roma origin with different ethnic self-identification around 1993 was about 800,000 (pages 94-95). Similar supposition Marushiakova and Popov made in 1995: estimate 750,000 ±50,000. Some international sources mention the estimates of some unnamed experts, who suggest 700,000 - 800,000 or higher than figures in the official census ( [http://europeandcis.undp.org/uploads/public/File/rbec_web/vgr/chapter1.1.pdf here] , UNDP's Regional Bureau for Europe). These mass non-Roma ethnic partialities are confirmed in the light of the last census in 2001 - more than 300,000 Bulgarian citizens of Roma origin traditionally declare their ethnic identity as Turkish or Bulgarian. Other statistics: 450,000 estimated in 1990 ( [http://countrystudies.us/bulgaria/25.htm U.S. Library of Congress study] ); at least 553,466 cited in a confidential census by the Ministry of the Interior in 1992 (cf Marushiakova and Popov 1995).] !! Yerli, Gurbeti, Kalderash, Boyash, Ursari
BFA =
BDI =
KHM =
CMR =
CAN = 80,000 [ [http://home.cogeco.ca/~rcctoronto/pdfs/fs08canada.pdf Roma in Canada fact sheet] ] !! Kalderash, Romnichal
CPV =
CYM =
CAF =
TCD =
CHL = 15,000 to 20,000 [http://www.web4desi.com/Articles/36-ArticlesbyJorgeMFernandezBernal/52-the-rom-in-the-americas Jorge M. Fernandez Bernal, "The Rom of the Americas"] ] !! Xoraxane
CHN =
CXR =
CCK =
COL = 79,000 [ [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=rmy Ethnologue report for language code:rmy ] ] !!Kalderash [ [http://www.web4desi.com/Articles/36-ArticlesbyJorgeMFernandezBernal/52-the-rom-in-the-americas?start=5 Jorge M. Fernandez Bernal, "The Rom of the Americas" (chapter Colombia)] ]
COM =
COG =
COD =
COK =
CRI =
CIV =
CRO = Disputed: 9,463 (census results) [cite web |author=Central Bureau of Statistics of Republic of Croatia |title=Census 2001, Population by Ethnicity, by Towns/Municipalities |url=http://www.dzs.hr/Eng/censuses/Census2001/Popis/E01_02_02/E01_02_02.html ]
to 40,000 (estimated number) [http://europeandcis.undp.org/uploads/public/File/rbec_web/vgr/chapter1.1.pdf UNDP's Regional Bureau for Europe] ]
or 131,000 Sinte (by Ethnologue) [ [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=HR Ethnologue report for Croatia] : "Croatia. 4,496,869. National or official languages: Croatian, Italian. Literacy rate: 97%. Also includes Sinte Romani (131,000), Slovenian (22,810)."] !!Lovari
CUB = >200 [ [http://www.web4desi.com/Articles/36-ArticlesbyJorgeMFernandezBernal/52-the-rom-in-the-americas?start=7 Jorge M. Fernandez Bernal, "The Rom of the Americas" (chapter Cuba)] ] !!
CYP = 500-1,000 !! Domari
CZE = Disputed: 12,000
or 220,000 [12,000 according to [http://www.czso.cz/sldb/sldb2001.nsf/tabx/CZ0000 2001 census] , 220,000 ( [http://skola.romea.cz/cz/index.php?id=historie/14] according to NGOs)] to 360,000 [ [ http://www.romnews.com/community/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=945 By James Palmer] : In Slovakia the number ranges from 90,000 to 520,000, in a 5.4 million population, and in the Czech Republic from 12,000 to 300,000, among 10.2 million.] [ [http://www.romaniworld.com/ecoprt-1.htm Romani World ] ] !! Romungro; Bohemians
DNK = 1,500-2,000 !!
DJI =
DMA =
DOM =
EAS =
ECU = 2000 [Source: ASOROM, Roma NGO from Ecuador, cited in [http://www.web4desi.com/Articles/36-ArticlesbyJorgeMFernandezBernal/52-the-rom-in-the-americas?start=6 "The Rom of the Americas" (chapter Ecuador), by Jorge M. Fernandez Bernal] ] !! Kalderash
EGY = 234,000-1,080,000 [ [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=rmt Ethnologue.com: Domari] ] !! Domari
SLV =
GNQ =
ERI =
EST = 1,000-1,500 !!
ETH =
FLK =
FRO =
FJI =
FIN = 10,000+ [ [http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26474 National Minorities of Finland, The Roma — Virtual Finland ] ] [ [http://www.edu.fi/english/page.asp?path=500,4699,6276,15850,15996 EDU.fi: The Roma and health services] ] !! Kàlo
FRA = 500,000 (official estimation)
1,200,000-1,300,000 (unofficial estimation) [ [http://www.euractiv.com/en/security/situation-roma-france-crisis-proportions-report/article-150507 Report by the European Roma Rights Centre] ] [ [http://www.errc.org/db/01/A1/m000001A1.pdf Full Report by the European Roma Rights Centre] ] !! Manush, Kalderash, Lovari, Sinti
GUF =
PYF =
ATF =
GAB =
GMB =
GEO =
GER = 210,000 [ [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=DE Ethnologue report for Germany] ] !! mostly Sinti, but also Balkan Roma, Vlax Roma
GHA =
GIB =
GRC = Disputed: 200,000
or 300,000–350,000 [200,000, according to the Greek government ( [http://www.nchr.gr/category.php?category_id=99] ); 300,000 to 350,000 according to the IHF monitor for Greece ( [http://www.nchr.gr/category.php?category_id=99] ).] !! Arlije, Domari
GRL =
GRD =
GLP =
GUM =
GTM =
GGY =
GIN =
GNB =
GUY =
HTI =
HMD =
HND =
HKG =
HUN = Disputed: 205,984 [ [http://www.nepszamlalas.hu/eng/volumes/06/00/tabeng/1/load01_10_0.html 2001 census] ] ; 394,000–482,000 [ [http://www.romaweb.hu/doc/konyvtar/hablicsek_magyarorszagi_ciganysag_demografiaja.pdf Hablicsek László: A magyarországi cigányság demográfiája] ] ; 450,000–600,000 [ [http://www.demos.hu/index.php?name=OE-DocManager&file=download&id=19&keret=N&showheader=N Demos Hungary - Hungary's strategic audit 2005] ] ; to 800,000-1,000,000 [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/arts/design/06roma.html The New York City Times] : Roma make up an estimated 8 to 10 percent of Hungary’s population] [ [http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0213/p07s02-woeu.html The christian science monitor] : " [...] the Roma, who account for between 8 and 10 percent of Hungary's 10 million people."] !! Romungro, Boyash, Lovari
ISL =
IND = 6,000,000Fact|date=July 2008 !!
IDN =
IRN = 110,000 [http://www.domresearchcenter.com/population/popiran.html Dom Research Center - Iran] !! Domari
IRQ = 3,000,000 !! Qawliya, Domari, Kalderash, Xoraxane
IRL = 8,000 !! Romnichal, Kalderash, Lovari, Romungro
IMN =
ISR = !! Kalderash, Domari
ITA = 90,000-180,000 + 670,000 illegal immigrants (most of them Roma) [ [http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2008/05/16/italy_cracks_down_on_illegal_immigration/ Italy cracks down on illegal immigration - The Boston Globe ] ] !! Sinti, Abruzzesi Roma, Ursari,Kalderash, Xoraxane, Ashkali
JAM =
JPN =
JEY =
JOR = 25,000 !! Domari
KAZ = 7,000fact|date=January 2008 !! Sinti [ [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=rmo Ethnologue report for language code:rmo ] ]
KEN =
KIR =
PRK =
KOR =
KWT =
KGZ =
LAO =
LVA = 8,205 (census 2005) or 13,000-15,000 [Estimated by the Soros foundation] !! Lofitka Roma (in same Baltic Romani dialect family as Polska Roma and Ruska Roma)
LBN = 12,000 !! Domari
LSO =
LBY = 33,000 !! Domari
LIE =
LTU = 3,000-4,000 !!
LUX = 100-150 !!
MAC =
MKD = Disputed: 53,879 Roma and 3,843 Balkan Egyptians
to 260,000 [ [http://www.stat.gov.mk/pdf/kniga_13.pdf 2002 census] , [http://europeandcis.undp.org/uploads/public/File/rbec_web/vgr/chapter1.1.pdf UNDP's Regional Bureau for Europe] ] !! Yerli, Gurbeti, Cergari
MDG =
MWI =
MYS =
MDV =
MLI =
MLT =
MHL =
MTQ =
MRT =
MUS =
MYT =
MEX = !!Kale, Boyash, Machwaya, Lovari, Kalderash
FSM =
MDA = 12,900 (census) to 20,000-25,000 or
150,000 [ [http://www.teamromany.com/content.cfm?id=2013 Teamromany | Roma in Moldova ] ] !! Rusurja, Ursari, Kalderash
MCO =
MNG =
MON = Disputed: 2,601
to 20,000 !! Ashkali
MSR =
MAR = unknown number !! Domari
MOZ =
MMR =
NAM =
NRU =
NPL =
NLD = 35,000-40,000 !! Ursari
ANT =
NCL =
NZL = 1231fact|date=January 2008 !!
NIC =
NGA =
NIU =
NFK =
MNP =
NOR = 6,500 or more [ [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=NO Ethnologue report for Norway ] ] !! Romanoar, Tavringer, Vlax
PAK =
PLW =
PSE = 7,200+ !! Domari
PAN =
PNG =
PRY = unknown number !! Kalderash
PER = 8,400 [Joshua project [http://www.joshuaproject.net/countries.php?rog3=PE Ethnic people of Peru] ] !! Kalderash, Calo
PHL =
PCN =
POL = 15,000 to 50,000 [Early 1990s from [http://countrystudies.us/poland/32.htm U.S. Library of Congress Country study] .] !! Romungro
PRT = 40,000-50,000 [ [http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/migrants/pom2003_93S/rc_pc_migrants_pom93S_figueiredo.html "People on the Move—Supp. N°93"] , Pontifical Council, December 2003, pp.299–305.] !!
PRI =
QAT =
REU =
ROU = Disputed:
Official census: 535,250
700,000–2,500,000 [2002 census data, based on [http://www.recensamant.ro/pagini/tabele/t47.pdf Population by ethnicity] , gives a total of 535,250 Roma in Romania. This figure is disputed by other sources, because at the local level, many Roma declare a different ethnicity (mostly Romanian, but also Hungarian in Transylvania and Turkish in Dobruja) for fear of discrimination. Many are not recorded at all, since they do not have ID cards [http://www.edrc.ro/docs/docs/Romii_din_Romania.pdf] . International sources give higher figures than the official census( [http://europeandcis.undp.org/uploads/public/File/rbec_web/vgr/chapter1.1.pdf UNDP's Regional Bureau for Europe] , [http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/ECAEXT/EXTROMA/0,,contentMDK:20333806~menuPK:615999~pagePK:64168445~piPK:64168309~theSitePK:615987,00.html World Bank] , [http://www.msd.govt.nz/documents/publications/msd/journal/issue25/25-pages154-164.pdf International Association for Official Statistics] ).] [ [http://www.anr.gov.ro/docs/statistici/Public_policies_for_Roma_in_Romania_2000_2005_190.pdf ] : " [...] independent estimates point to numbers varying form 1 million to 2.5 million."] [ [http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/schweiz/rumaenien_sieht_ende_starker_auswanderung_1.698521.html Rumänien sieht Ende starker Auswanderung (Schweiz, NZZ Online) ] ] !! Kalderash, Ursari, Lovari, Vlax, Romungro
RUS = Disputed: 183,000-400,000 [ [http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/html/TOM_04_01.htm 2002 Russian census] recorded 182,766 Roma. In Jean-Pierre Liégeois, "Roma, Tsiganes, Voyageurs", p.34, Conseil de l'Europe, 1994 there are presented 220,000-400,000.] !! Ruska Roma (descented from Polska Roma, from Poland), Kalderash (from Moldova), Servy (from Ukraine and Balkans), Ursari (from Bulgaria) Lovare, Vlahurya (from Vlachia),
RWA =
SHN =
KNA =
LCA =
SPM =
VCT =
WSM =
SMR =
STP =
SAU = !! Domari
SEN =
SCG = Disputed: 108,193
or 500,000-700,000 [ [http://www.errc.org/cikk.php?cikk=1816 European Roma Rights Centre ] ] !! Ashkali, Ursari, Machvaya, Egyptians
SYC =
SLE =
SGP =
SVK = Disputed: 92,500 or 550.000 [ [http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/04/14/eu.slovakia.roma/ CNN.com - Slovakia seeks help on Roma issue - Apr 14, 2004 ] ] [ [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/lo.html CIA Factbook on Slovakia] .] !! Romungro
SVN = Disputed: 3,246 to 10,000 [2002 census http://www.stat.si/letopis/2005/04_05/04-03-05.htm] !!
SOM =
SAF = 7,900fact|date=January 2008 !! Romnichal
SGS =
SPA = 600,000-650,000 (official estimation) [ [http://www.eumap.org/reports/2002/eu/international/sections/spain/2002_m_spain.pdf ] : The Government estimates a Roma/gitano population of between 600,000 and 650,000, of a total national population of approximately 40 million.]
600,000 to 800,000 [ [http://countrystudies.us/spain/41.htm U.S. Library of Congress Country study] .]
or 1,500,000 [Estimated by the
SRI =
SDN = 20,000-50,000 !! Domari
SUR =
SJM =
SWZ =
SWE = 15,000-20,000 or 28,092 [ [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=SE Ethnologue report for Sweden ] ] !! Swedish Travellers, Vlax (Kalderash, Lovara), Kàlo (Finnish Roma)
CHE = 30,000-35,000 !!
SYR = 250,000 !! Domari
TWN =
TJK = unknown number !! Lyuli
TZA =
THA =
TLS =
TGO =
TKL =
TON =
TTO =
TUN = unknown number
TUR = Disputed:
700,000 (official estimation) [According to a 2008 report prepared for the National Security Council of Turkey:cite news
title = Türkiyedeki Kürtlerin Sayısı! (Number of Kurds in Turkey!)
publisher = Milliyet
date = 2008-06-06
accessdate = 2008-06-07
language = Turkish
url = http://www.milliyet.com.tr/default.aspx?aType=SonDakika&Kategori=yasam&ArticleID=873452&Date=07.06.2008&ver=16]
to 5 million [No official count; estimate from [http://goc.bilgi.edu.tr/documents/rapor.pdf "Reaching the Romanlar—A Feasibility Study Report"] (International Romani Studies Network), Istanbul: 2006, p.13. See also [http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=17&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ihf-hr.org%2Fviewbinary%2Fviewdocument.php%3Fdoc_id%3D7081&ei=ZGh8Ra6PIojWgwPswYSGBg&usg=__JjkO-H9UILip7K609hgW3xYUCrs=&sig2=_7Mb8m_IyYqfWqm_xLJmyQ "Turkey: A Minority Policy of Systematic Negation"] (IHF report) and cite news |url=http://webarsiv.hurriyet.com.tr/2005/05/08/639714.asp |title=AB ülkeleriyle ortak bir noktamız daha ÇİNGENELER |accessdate=2006-09-23 |last=SERİN |first=Ayten |date=2005-05-08 |work=Hürriyet |language=Turkish ] !! Bosha, Yerli
TKM = unknown number !! Lyuli
TCA =
TUV =
UGA =
UKR = 48,000 or 400,000 [ [http://www.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/results/nationality_population/nationality_1/s5/?botton=cens_db&box=5.1W&k_t=00&p=120&rz=1_1&rz_b=2_1%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&n_page=7 2001 Ukrainian census] recorded 47,587 Roma.] !! Kelderare (hungarian name for Kotlyary; Zakarpattia), Kotlyary (other Ukrainian regions), Ruska Roma (northern Ukraine), Servy (Serby, southern and central Ukraine from Balkans), Lovare (central Ukraine), Kelmysh, Crymy (in Crimea), Servica Roma (in Zakarpattia from Slovakia), Ungriko Roma (in Zakarpattia from Hungary) [ [http://www.novasich.org.ua/index.php?go=News&in=view&id=117 Нова Січ | Новини | Історія українських циган ] ] [Helbing Adriana, "Ukraine: Performing Politics", 02/28/2006]
ARE =
UK = 44,000–94,000+ [40,000–90,000 Anglo-Romani speakers, see [http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/Research/Projects/romani/downloads/2/Matras_Rmni_UK.pdf] and [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=rme] . Unspecified number of Roma immigrants from Eastern Europe (among them in 2004 there were 4,100 Vlax Roma [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=rmy] ).] !! Romnichal, Kalderash, Lovari, Romungro, Welsh Kale
USA = 1 million (Roma organizations' estimations)lower| [ [http://www.web4desi.com/Articles/36-ArticlesbyJorgeMFernandezBernal/52-the-rom-in-the-americas Estimation by SKOKRA (The Council of the Kumpanias and Organizations of the Americas) and Roma Union] ] !! Kalderash, Machvaya, Lovari, Romnichal, Boyash, Romungro
UMI =
URY = 2,000-5,000 [ [http://www.web4desi.com/Articles/36-ArticlesbyJorgeMFernandezBernal/52-the-rom-in-the-americas?start=3 Jorge M. Fernandez Bernal, "The Rom of the Americas" (chapter Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay)] ] !! Kalderash
UZB = unknown number !! Lyuli
VUT =
VAT =
VEN = unknown number !! Kalderash
VNM =
VGB =
VIR =
ESH =
YEM =
ZMB =
ZWE =

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