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Jewish population of Europe and North Africa before WWII (1939)

Jewish
Population
% of Total
Population
Central Europe
Germany 588,417 0.872
Hungary 444,567 5.117
Czechoslovakia 356,796 2.423
Austria 250,000 3.713
Switzerland 17,973 0.442
Danzig 9,239 2.267
Eastern Europe
Poland 3,028,837 9.487
USSR 2,524,469 2.060
Romania 984,213 5.460
Lithuanian 155,125 6.629
Latvia 94,388 4.968
Estonia 5,000 0.448
Western Europe
UK 300,000 0.660
France 225,000 0.638
Netherlands 156,817 1.976
Belgium 60,000 0.741
Ireland 3,686 0.124
Luxembourg 2,242 0.748
Scandinavia
Sweden 6,469 0.165
Denmark 5,947 0.167
Finland 1,772 0.048
Norway 2,457 0.652
Southern Europe
Greece 100,000 1.612
Yugoslavia 68,485 0.491
Italy 47,435 0.135
Bulgaria 46,431 0.847
Spain 4,000 0.017
Portugal 1,200 0.018
Gibraltar 1,123 6.376
Albania 204 0.020
Cyprus 95 0.656
Malta 35 0.001
North Africa
Morocco 143,000 2.362
Algeria 100,127 1.680
Tunisia 65,000 0.741
Egypt 63,550 0.447
Libya 24.342 3.392
Source: Holocaust Museum at Washington, DC