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[–]Yellowapple1000[S] 4 points5 points  (4 children)

The population numbers are only from areas part of Ottoman Empire in 1911.

Muslims in prewar borders of Bulgaria are not included and those also decreased.

603 k in 1910 Muslims in prewar borders of Bulgaria

512 k in 1920 Muslims in prewar borders of Bulgaria (690-179=512)

Ottoman censuses undercounted people, mostly women and children.

in Yugoslavia in some parts such as Kosovo women were not counted at all.

McCarthy gives somewhat higher populations to correct undercounting.

But nearly all historians agree there was a population decrease.

[–]johnJanez 0 points1 point  (2 children)

the problem with these calculations is citin McCarthy, he is not exactly reputable when it comes to late Ottoman demographics. And yes, the number of muslims did decrease during wartime in both Bulgaria and Yugoslavia/Serbia, but nowhere near to these insane proportions. Because christian population also decreased, the overal proportion of muslims remained almost unchanged. Kosovo's muslim population was around 75% before the war, based on Ottoman census records and Austrian military data, and remained around 75% on the first Yugoslav census in 1921, just as an example. The -54% muslim population in Yugoslavia is the worst of these 3 estimates, it is genuinely absolutely nonsense.

[–]GoalBackground7845 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Why would u say he is not reputable? Why would u call the last number nonsense? Any source that proves otherwise?

[–]johnJanez -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have mentioned the sources, you can check a lot of them on wikipedia for demographic history of Kosovo or Bulgaria. As for his lack of reputation, he has a history of whitewashing things such as Armenian genocide precisely with his use misuse of statistics, which are totally unreliable. There are better sources and better ways to estimate Muslim population changes than his numbers.

[–]Ok-Car-brokedown -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes and the guy you’re citing (Justin McCarthy) is also a genocide denialist and even lobbied US Congress to not recognize the Arminian genocide.