What could have been the Neanderthal population at its peak? ?

Question

What could have been the Neanderthal population at its peak? ?

Answer 1

Yep, Stealth is right.The top number estimate is 10,000 at a time.

Answer 2

In the 300,000 years that Neanderthals roamed Europe and Western Asia, it's believed that there were never more than 10,000 alive, at any one time!