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In 2023 approximately 2.1 million Palestinians lived in the Gaza Strip, [34] around 1.6 million of them UN-registered refugees. [47] The Strip's population has continued to increase since that time, one of the main reasons being a total fertility rate of 3.38 children per woman (2023 est).
[9] [298] This leads to the Gaza Strip having an unusually high proportion of children in the population, with 43.5% of the population being 14 or younger and a median age in 2014 of 18, compared to a world average of 28, and 30 in Israel. The only countries with a lower median age are countries in Africa such as Uganda where it was 15.
Sunni Islam is a major religion in Palestine, being the religion of the majority of the Palestinian population. Muslims comprise 85% of the population of the West Bank, when including Israeli settlers, [1] and 99% of the population of the Gaza Strip. [2]
The West Bank had a population of 2,881,687, whereas the Gaza Strip had a population of 1,899,291. Combined demographics This page or section uses colour as the only way to convey important information.
The urban area around Gaza City is home to nearly 2 million people living in an 88-square-mile expanse, which is about 21,000 people per square mile. Maps show the extreme population density in ...
A map showing the prevailing religious population by country based on the Pew Research Center's 2010 baseline estimates [2] By proportion. ... Gaza Strip 99.9% [29]
"This amounts to approximately 1.1 million people," Dujarric added, or nearly half of Gaza's 2.3 million population. The areas north of Wadi Gaza include Gaza City, the enclave's largest city.
Most of the Gaza Strip's Christian population lived in Gaza City, in the north. [137] In 2023 the Israeli militarily attempted to force them out by the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. [138] As of October 2024, most of Gaza's Christians had refused to leave, our not felt safe to traverse the war zone. [139]