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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.
As of January 2023, there are 144 Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including 12 in East Jerusalem. [2] In addition, there are over 100 Israeli illegal outposts in the West Bank. In total, over 450,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank excluding East Jerusalem, with an additional 220,000 Jewish settlers residing in East Jerusalem. [3] [4]
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.
Israel's Jewish population continued to grow at a very high rate for years, fed by waves of Jewish immigration from round the world, most notably the massive immigration wave of Soviet Jews, which arrived in Israel in the early 1990s following the dissolution of the USSR, who, according to the Law of Return, were entitled to become Israeli ...
Therefore, the following list of cities ranked by Jewish population is not complete. In particular, it excludes many Jewish-majority cities in Israel. Many of the U.S. cities have their data sourced from the Jewish Data Bank, which records population statistics for service areas that encompass many counties in a metropolitan area. [6]
As of 2023, the world's core Jewish population (those identifying as Jews above all else) was estimated at 15.7 million, which is approximately 0.2% of the 8 billion worldwide population. Israel hosts the largest core Jewry in the world with 7.2 million, followed by the United States with 5.7 million.
World Economic Forum: Human Capital Report 2017, [10] ranked 18th out of 130; World Economic Forum: Inclusive Development Index 2018, [11] ranked 31st out of 103 countries; World Bank: Ease of doing business index 2020, [12] (2019 rankings), ranked 35th out of 190 countries; World Bank: Logistics Performance Index 2016, [13] ranked 28th out of 160