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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.
The global Jewish population was estimated at approximately 11 million in 1945, following the significant losses incurred during World War II and the Holocaust. It took 15 years for the Jewish population to increase by one million, reaching 12 million by 1960.
At the end of 2023, the world's Jewish population was estimated at 15.7 million, which is approximately 0.2% of the 8 billion worldwide population. Israel hosts the largest Jewish population in the world, with 7.1 million, followed by the United States with 6.3 million. [1]
According to the Associated Press, the global Jewish population at the outbreak of World War II in 1939 was almost exactly 16.5 million as well. After the Holocaust, the Jewish population was ...
World Jewish population around 7.7 million, 90% in Europe, mostly Eastern Europe; around 3.5 million in the former Polish provinces. 1881–1884, 1903–1906, 1918–1920 Three major waves of pogroms kill tens of thousands of Jews in Russia and Ukraine. More than two million Russian Jews emigrate in the period 1881–1920. 1881
Prior to World War II, the global Jewish population reached a peak of 16.7 million, [35] representing around 0.7% of the world's population at that time. During World War II, approximately 6 million Jews throughout Europe were systematically murdered by Nazi Germany in a genocide known as the Holocaust .
By the first century, Babylonia already held a speedily growing [90] population of an estimated 1,000,000 Jews, which increased to an estimated 2 million [115] between the years 200 AD and 500 AD, both by natural growth and by immigration of more Jews from Judea, making up about 1/6 of the world Jewish population at that era. [115]
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Russian Empire had not only the largest Jewish population in the world, but actually a majority of the world's Jews living within its borders. [47] In 1897, according to Russian census of 1897 , the total Jewish population of Russia was 5,189,401 persons of both sexes (4.13% of total population).