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France continues to be home to the world's third largest Jewish community, at around 500,000, ... Below is a list of Jewish populations in the world by country.
All data below, are from the Berman Jewish DataBank at Stanford University in the World Jewish Population (2020) report coordinated by Sergio DellaPergola at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Jewish DataBank figures are primarily based on national censuses combined with trend analysis.
As of 2021, over 85% of the global Jewish population resided in two countries: Israel and the United States. Additionally, 23 countries with Jewish populations exceeding 10,000 accounted for another 14%, while 77 countries, each with fewer than 10,000 Jews, comprised the remaining 1%. World core Jewish population estimates (1945-2020): [1]
While the Jewish population currently makes up an estimated 1.9 percent of the U.S. population, it is estimated to make up 1.4 percent of the population in 2050. Evidently, there is hope for the ...
The Tel Aviv metropolitan area concentrates the largest Jewish population in the world. The global Jewish population is heavily concentrated in major urban centers. As of 2021, more than half (51.2%) of world Jewry resided in just ten metropolitan areas.
France, which has the largest Jewish population in Europe, recently reported a sharp rise in antisemitism since October 7, with reported incidents increasing by 284%.
Metropolitan areas with the largest Jewish populations are listed below though one source at jewishtemples.org, [171] states that "It is difficult to come up with exact population figures on a country by country basis, let alone city by city around the world. Figures for Russia and other CIS countries are but educated guesses."
In the 1970s, Israel surpassed the Soviet Union as having the second-largest Jewish population. [35] In 2003, the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics reported that Israel had surpassed the United States as the nation with the world's largest Jewish population.