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Apr 29, 2025
Kenaina hara
Every year right before Yom Haatzmaut the Ministry of Interior releases the latest stats from the Population Registry about the population of Israel.
This year, as we approach Israel's 77th birthday, the numbers look like this:
Israel has finally crossed the 10 million mark with a official population of 10,094,000 (is it really such a round number?).
That 10+ million is made up of 20.9% Arabs (2,114,000), 2.5% foreign workers (248,000), and 77.6% Jews and non-Arab "others" (7,732,000).
In the past year the Israeli population has increased by 135,000 people. During the past year 174,000 new babies were born in Israel. 5% of Israelis are under the age of 10.
96% of Israelis are satisfied with their lives and with their relationships with family. 92% are in regular contact with friends, and 78% do not feel lonely on a regular basis.
There are 15.8 million Jews in the world today. In 1939 there were 16.6 million, so we are on the cusp of getting back to that level. In 1939 3% of world Jewry was in Israel (Palestine at the time), and today we are at about 49.9% in Israel. In 1948 right before the State was founded there were 11.5 million Jews in the world with 6% in Israel.
but we are not counting.
kenaina hara.
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I work at the CBS. All the numbers are estimations, based on administration files from the Ministry of the Interior, Bituach Leumi, etc. We only do the census every 10-15 years, it's a limited sample of the population, and really that's only for the purpose of learning how to adjust the estimations to better reflect reality. That's why we can only have round numbers, approximations.
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