Israel's Population Hits 8.7 Million on Eve of 69th Independence Day
Census includes Jews in West Bank as part of Israelis, but not Palestinians | Jews make up 74.7 percent of the total, while Arabs account for 20.8 percent;On the eve of the 69th anniversary of Israel’s establishment, the country’s population is 8.68 million – more than 10 times what it was when the state was founded, in 1948. This and other demographic figures were announced on Thursday by the Central Bureau of Statistics, ahead of Independence Day on Monday.
According to the CBS, 74.7 percent (6.484 million) of Israel’s residents are Jewish, 20.8 percent (1.808 million) are Arab – both Muslim and Christian – while the remaining 4.5 percent (388,000) are non-Arab Christians, members of other religions or people of no religion. There are also 183,000 foreign nationals living in Israel.
It should be noted that the data includes the population within the Green Line with the Golan Heights, but does not include the Palestinian population living in Gaza and in the West Bank, though it does include the Jewish population living in the West Bank. That is, Jews are counted as if the entire territory is one, while Arabs are only counted within the Green Line, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem. The Gaza Strip is not counted at all. The upshot is a close to 75 percent Jewish majority.
In building the census of the number of Jews living in Israel, the CBS also included Israeli Jews who live in settlements in the West Bank, but did not include the Palestinians living there. In other words, Jews were included in the census according to a single territory, which includes Israel and the West Bank, while only Arabs living in Israel proper (and East Jerusalem) were included.
The population grew by 159,000 since last Independence Day, a 1.9 percent increase. The population is projected to reach 15 million on the state’s centennial, in 2048.
In the past year, 174,000 babies were born in Israel, 30,000 people immigrated to the country and 44,000 people died.he population density in 1948 was 43.1 people per square kilometer, whereas today it is 373.2 per square kilometer. The largest city is Jerusalem, with a population of 865,700. The smallest community is Neve Zohar, in the Tamar Regional Council near the Dead Sea, with only 71 residents.
When the state was established there was only one city with more than 100,000 residents, Tel Aviv. Today there are 14 such cities, eight of which number more than 200,000 residents.
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