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In 1939 the world Jewish population is widely estimated at about 16.6 million, with roughly 9.5 million (57%) living in Europe and about 449,000 in Mandatory Palestine/Israel; Poland alone had about 3...
Estimates for the global Jewish population in 2024–2025 cluster between roughly 15.3 million and 16.5 million people, equal to about 0.2% of the world’s population (figures vary by definition and sour...
European Jewry grew from the late 19th century into the interwar period and by the late 1930s numbered roughly 9–9.5 million, making up a majority of the world’s Jews (about 57% in some estimates) . B...
Poland, the Soviet Union (territories now in Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova) and other Eastern European countries suffered the largest proportional losses of their Jewish populations dur...
The mapping of figures on the eve of was profoundly distorted by the border changes, annexations and occupations of 1938–1939: some country totals simply absorbed Jewish populations through annexation...