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[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.
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).
Palestinians (Arabic: الفلسطينيون, romanized: al-Filasṭīniyyūn) are an Arab ethnonational group native to the region of Palestine. [34] [35] [36] [37]In 1919, Palestinian Muslims and Palestinian Christians constituted 90 percent of the population of Palestine, just before the third wave of Jewish immigration and the setting up of British Mandatory Palestine after World War I.
Palestine, [i] officially the State of Palestine, [ii] [e] is a country in the southern Levant region of West Asia recognized by 146 out of 193 UN member states.It encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, collectively known as the occupied Palestinian territories, within the broader geographic and historical Palestine region.
Palestine demographics, 1st century through the Mandate. Figures in thousands, i.e. 100 represents 100,000, 1,000 represents 1,000,000. See also the detailed timeline Year Jews Christians Muslims Total 1st c. Majority – – ~1,250 4th c. Majority Minority – >1st c. 5th c. Minority Majority – >1st c. End 12th c. Minority Minority Majority >225 14th c. Minority Minority Majority 150 1533 ...
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics evaluations, in 2015 the Palestinian population of the West Bank was approximately 2.9 million and that of the Gaza Strip was 1.8 million. [154]
During the Israel–Hamas war, the Israeli military ordered mass evacuations in Gaza, resulting in one of the largest displacements of Palestinians since 1948. [4] [5] [a] On 13 October 2023, just one week after Hamas' attack on Israel, Israel instructed 1.1 million Gazans north of the Wadi Gaza, including those in Gaza City, to evacuate within 24 hours. [7]
The 1948 Palestine war saw the forcible displacement of most of its predominantly Arab population, and consequently the establishment of Israel, in what Palestinians call the Nakba ("catastrophe"). In the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which had been held by Jordan and Egypt respectively.