Mental health of immigrants from the former Soviet Bloc: a future problem for primary health care in the enlarged European Union? A cross-sectional study

Table 2 Immigrants from the Former Soviet Bloc in Sweden [71]

Country of birth	Total number of immigrants for the year indicated (persons)		Arrival of immigrants (number of persons per arrival period)**
	1950*	2001	-1969	1970–79	1980–89	1990–99
Bulgaria	44	3,605	274	313	632	2,094
Former Czechoslovakia	3,548	7,835	3,196	1,551	1,376	1,086
Hungary	2,030	14,027	5,610	2,750	3,108	1,705
Romania	531	11,954	443	666	5,262	4,818
Poland	7,832	40,506	3,359	9,498	15,487	9,734
The former Soviet Union	37,997	30,504	4,726	1,092	1,855	12,173

* Mostly refugees of the World War II, many of whom have repatriated to their countries of birth later
** Only the arrival of immigrants who still lived in Sweden in 2001 (i.e. at the end of the study) is shown (not the arrival of the total number of refugees and immigrants during these periods).

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