However, in the mid-1950s their number was estimated at 80,000 in Greece, but it was a period in which the process of urbanization had already started for large numbers of Greeks, and the number of the Sarakatsani who had already ceased to be transhumant shepherds sometime in the past was unknown.
それでも 1950年代半ばにはその数はギリシャでは8万人と推定されていたが、多数のギリシャ人がすでに都市化の過程を開始していた時期であり、すでに牧畜業をやめてしまっていたサラカツァニの人々の数は判っていない。