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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Druze Al-Muwaḥḥidūn الموحدون Druze star and Druze flag Total population ≈800,000 –2,000,000 Founder Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad Regions with significant populations Syria 600,000 Lebanon 250,000 [8] Israel and the Golan Heights 143,000 [9] Venezuela 60,000 [10] [11] United States ...
Druze in Israel population pyramid in 2020 Druze families in Golan Heights: the Druze in Israel have a low fertility-rate. [63] According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics census in 2020, the Druze make up about 7.6% of the Arab citizens of Israel, [64] and the Druze population in Israel was approximately 145,000. [65]
The Lebanese Druze (Arabic: دروز لبنان, romanized: durūz lubnān) are an ethnoreligious group [1] constituting about 5.2 percent [2] of the population of Lebanon. They follow the Druze faith, which is an esoteric Abrahamic religion originating from the Near East .
Druze is the third-largest religion in Syria with 2010 results recording that their adherents made up 3.2 percent of the population. [2] [3] The Druze are concentrated in the rural, mountainous areas east and south of Damascus in the area of Mount Druze.
Jabal al-Druze (Arabic: جبل الدروز, French: Djebel Druze) was an autonomous state in the French Mandate of Syria from 1921 to 1936, designed to function as a government for the local Druze population under French oversight.
The State of Jabal Druze was an autonomous area in the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon from 1921 to 1936. [4] [5] In the past, the name Jabal al-Druze was used for a different area, located in Mount Lebanon. [citation needed] In Syria, most Druze reside in the As-Suwayda Governorate, which
Today, the Druze population is made up of more than 1 million people living primarily in Syria and Lebanon, where some have achieved high political office, as well as in Israel and Jordan.
Own work, data taken from Diagram 1 – The Druze Population in Israel by Age and Sex, Absolute Numbers, at the End of 2020 from the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics: