Estonia

ESTONIAN POPULATION LOSSES SINCE 1939

(COMPILED BY UBA/BATUN)

TOTAL POPULATION AS OF OCTOBER 1939 WITHIN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED BORDERS (TARTU PEACE TREATY OF 1920):

1,136,400

FIRST SOVIET OCCUPATION IN 1939 WITHIN DE FACTO 1945-93 BORDERS:

1,068,250

FIRST SOVIET OCCUPATION 1940-1941:

ILLEGALLY CONSCRIPTED INTO RED ARMY:

34,700

DIED DURING SERVICE

21,470

MISSING, FATE UNKNOWN

2,000

ARRESTED AND IMPRISIONED

8,000

EXECUTED OR DIED AS A RESULT OF TORTURE

7,450

ARRESTED AND DEPORTED TO LABOR CAMPS (MEN, SOME WOMEN) OR EXILE (MOST WOMEN AND CHILDREN, ORPHANS )

11,000

DIED DURING DETENTION

5,700

RELEASED BY 1960 (100 MEN, 5200 WOMEN AND CHILDREN)

5,300

ORDERED TO USSR FOR TEMPORARY LABOR SERVICE

1,858

DIED DURING SERVICE

930

EVACUATED TO USSR (COLLABORATORS, VOLUNTARY REFUGEES AND UNKNOWN NUMBER OF INVOLUNTARY EVACUEES)

26,275

OF THESE, ESTONIAN JEWISH REFUGEES

3,500

OF TOTAL EVACUEES, DIED DURING THE WAR

10,000

JEWISH REFUGEES RETURNING IN 1945

2,000

ESTONIAN CITIZENS OF BALTIC GERMAN ORIGIN RESETTLED IN GERMANY ACCORDING TO SOVIET/GERMAN AGREEMENTS:

21,400

CAUSALTIES FROM ARMED RESISTANCE, ATROCITIES BY "SCORCHED EARTH BATTALIONS", NKVD AND RED ARMY UNITS:

1,750

MISSING WITHOUT TRACE

1,101

GERMAN OCCUPATION 1941-1944

ESTONIAN CITIZENS OF SWEDISH ANCESTRY EVACUATED TO SWEDEN BY AS PER SWEDISH/GERMAN AGREEMENTS:

7,500

ILLEGALY CONSCRIPTED (70%) OR VOLUNTEERED (30%) FOR SERVICE IN GERMAN ARMY:

64,360

DIED DURING SERVICE

14,300

RETURNED TO CIVILIAN LIFE WITHOUT ARREST

8,000

ARRESTED AND IMPRISIONED AFTER THE WAR

31,360

DIED DURING DETENTION

6,270

BECAME REFUGEES AFTER THE WAR

11,000

JAILED OR CONSCRIPTED FOR FORCED LABOR:

5,000

DIED DURING DETENTION OR LABOR SERVICE

1,000

BECAME REFUGEES AFTER THE WAR

1,500

ESTONIAN CITIZENS EXECUTED

6,000

OF THESE ESTONIAN JEWS EXECUTED

950

OF THESE ESTONIAN GYPSIES EXECUTED

245

CIVILIAN WAR CAUSALTIES, PRIMARILY AIR RAIDS

3,750

ETHNIC ESTONIAN SOVIET CITIZENS EVACUATED TO ESTONIA FROM GERMAN-OCCUPAIED AREAS OF RUSSIA

+5,000

INGRIAN REFUGEES FROM RUSSIA EVACUATED TO ESTONIA

+78,000

RE-EVACUATED FROM ESTONIA TO FINLAND 1942-44

63,154

CIVILIAN REFUGEES FLEEING ADVENT OF SECOND SOVIET OCCUPATION, PRIMARILY 1944:

70,000

DIED ENROUTE TO WEST

7,000

CIVILIAN REFUGEES TO FINLAND, PRIMARILY 1941-1943:

3,350

SERVED IN FINNISH MILITARY

2,700

DIED DURING SERVICE

200

REFUGEES (PRIMARILY TO SWEDEN)

1,200

RETURNED TO ESTONIA:

1,950

LATER ARRESTED AND IMPRISONED

1,140

DIED DURING DETENTION

230

TOTAL POPULATION OF ESTONIA IN 1945:

865,2000

SECOND SOVIET OCCUPATION (1944-1991)

CIVILIANS ARRESTED AND IMPRISONED FOR VARIOUS POLITICAL REASONS 1944-1951

30,000

DIED DURING DETENTION

6,300

CIVILIANS DEPORTED DURING MASS DEPORTATIONS IN RURAL AREAS, 1949:

25,000

DIED DURING RESETTLEMENT PROCESS

3,750

CIVILIANS IMPRISONED OR DEPORTED FOR VARIOUS POLITICAL REASONS 1951-1991

6,000

CIVILIAN ATROCITIES BY RED ARMY, 1944

150

ESTIMATED CASUALTIES FROM ARMED RESISTANCE

5,500

SOVIET OFFICIALS ASSASSINATED

300

ARRESTED FOR INVOLVEMENT IN ARMED RESISTANCE

8,000

DIED DURING DETENTION

4,000

TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE RELEASED FROM "SPECIAL EXILE" BETWEEN 1954 AND 1960 (INCLUDES SOME PORTION OF THE 5300 SURVIVORS OF THE 1941 DEPORTATIONS MENTIONED ABOVE)

27,835

 

TOTAL NUMBER SOVIET CITIZENS RESETTLED IN ESTONIA AFTER 1944:

+502,000

TOTAL POPULATION OF ESTONIA IN 1959 (DE FACTO 1945-93 BORDERS):

1,196,791

TOTAL POPULATION OF ESTONIA IN 1979 (DE FACTO 1945-93 BORDERS):

1,464,476

TOTAL POPULATION OF ESTONIA IN 1989 (DE FACTO 1945-93 BORDERS):

1,565,662

   


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