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“Jewish Population in the World and in Israel,” Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics Table 2.11. “Israel’s population tops 9 million as Jewish new year approaches,” Times of Israel, (September 26, 2019). “Israel’s population at 9,136,000 on the eve of 2020,” Jerusalem Post, (January 1, 2020).
(1948 - Present) Vital Statistics: Table of Contents | Immigration to Israel | World Jewish Population. *Updated January 1, 2024. Sources: Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Moshe Cohen, “Jewish population at lowest percentage since founding of Israel,” Jerusalem Post, (April 12, 2021).
As of 2021, over 85% of the global Jewish population resided in two countries: Israel and the United States. Additionally, 23 countries with Jewish populations exceeding 10,000 accounted for another 14%, while 77 countries, each with fewer than 10,000 Jews, comprised the remaining 1%.
24 kwi 2023 · In May 1948, the Jewish population of Israel constituted just 6 per cent of all Jews worldwide, and was dwarfed by the communities in the Americas, which comprised half of the whole, and Europe which, even after the Holocaust, still made up about a third.
In 2020, 78% of the Jewish population were “Sabras” - born in Israel - compared with just a 35% native-born population at Israel’s independence in 1948. Over half of the Jewish population are Israeli-born to at least one parent who was also Israeli-born.
27 kwi 2022 · The Holocaust brought a tectonic shift in the world’s Jewish demography, and while only 449,000, 3% of world Jewry lived in Israel 1939, in 1948, on the eve of the establishment of the State of...
The chapters are arranged in chronological order: 1) Population Registration 1948; 2) Population Censuses in Israel; 3) Israel in the 70th Year of its Independence; 4) Selected Topics in a Multi-Year Comparison.
