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According to the 2009 Statistical Abstract of Israel by Israel Central Bureau of Statistics; 2,043.8k israeli jews were Israel born (father born in Israel), 681.4k were from other asian countries (including 45.6k from Indian and Pakistani), 859.1k from African countries (including 106.9k from ethiopia), and 1,939.4k were from Europe, America ...
The growth rate of the Arab population in Israel is 2.2%, while the growth rate of the Jewish population in Israel is 1.8%. The growth rate of the Arab population has slowed from 3.8% in 1999 to 2.2% in 2013, and for the Jewish population, the growth rate declined from 2.7% to its lowest rate of 1.4% in 2005.
Surveys in 2009 found a radicalization in the positions of Israeli Arabs towards the State of Israel, with 41% of Israeli Arabs recognizing Israel's right to exist as a Jewish and democratic state (down from 65.6% in 2003), and 53.7% believing Israel has a right to exist as an independent country (down from 81.1% in 2003).
[11] [12] [6] The Chief Rabbinate of Israel has placed rabbis of Mizrahi origin in Israel under the jurisdiction of the Sephardi chief rabbis. [12] Following the First Arab–Israeli War, over 850,000 Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews were expelled or evacuated from Arab and Muslim-majority countries between 1948 and the early 1980s.
Two countries account for 81% of those recognized as Jews or of sufficient Jewish ancestry to be eligible for citizenship in Israel under its Law of Return: the United States with 51% [citation needed] and Israel with 30% along with population centers in Israeli settlements in the West Bank with 2%. An additional 16% is split between France (3% ...
Countries with the greatest proportion of people without religion, including agnostics and atheists, from Irreligion by country (as of 2020): [42] Nonreligious population by country as of 2010 [43] Czech Republic 78.4% North Korea 71.3% Estonia 60.2% Hong Kong 54.7% China 51.8% New Zealand 48.2% [44] South Korea 46.6% Latvia 45.3%
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. The list also includes unrecognized but de facto independent countries. The figures in the table ...
Jewish ethnic divisions refer to many distinctive communities within the world's Jewish population.Although "Jewish" is considered an ethnicity itself, there are distinct ethnic subdivisions among Jews, most of which are primarily the result of geographic branching from an originating Israelite population, mixing with local communities, and subsequent independent evolutions.