Happy Rosh Hashanah: Israel's population reaches 7.6 million
Central Bureau of Statistics: 14,572 new immigrants arrive in Israel this year, 28% of population under the age of 15.
By Moti Bassok Tags: Israel newsThe Central Bureau of Statistics published new figures, including the fact that 28 percent of Israelis are currently under the age of 15, and 14, 572 immigrants to the country arrived in 2009.
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On the eve of Rosh Hashanah 5771, the population of Israel surpassed 7,645,500, of which 5,770,900 people are Jews, 1,559,100 are Arabs, and another 315,500 labeled "other," according to numbers published by the Central Bureau of Statistics on Monday.
This data does not include the migrant workers in Israel, who number approximately 220,000.
The statistics also reveal that the growth rate of the population of Israel in the last 7 years equals approximately 1.8 percent per year (since 2003). Israel experienced a similar growth rate in the 1980s, which were years with low levels of immigration.
During the 1990s, when there were record high immigration levels from the former Soviet Union, the country's growth rate of 3 percent per year, on average.
In 2009, the annual growth rate among Jews was 1.7 percent, among Arabs it was 2.4 percent, and among the "others" it was 0.8 percent. The growth rate for Muslims was 2.8 percent, for Christians 1 percent, and for Druze 1.7 percent.
14,572 immigrants arrived in Israel in 2009, 6 percent more than in 2008. The countries from which the most immigrant arrived were Russia (3,245), the U.S.A. (2,474), the Ukraine (1,602), France (1,558) and the U.K. (708).
In 2009, Israel immigration continued to be overwhelmingly female. For every 1,000 women that immigrated to Israel, only 892 men made aliyah.
The Israeli population is considered to be relatively young in comparison to the Arab states. In 2009, 28 percent of Israelis were under age 15, in comparison to 17 percent on average in other Western countries. The percentage of Israelis over the age of 64 was close to 10 percent, compared to 15 percent in other Western states.
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Am Israel Hai for ever and ever
Why would Israel want to keep 300000 Palestinians who live in E.J'lem, and will be a million after one generation? Sometimes you really have to wonder to what degree wishful/religious slogans run roughshod over good ( demographic ) sense.
There are now 7.645 million people in Israel Also 17,000 made aliya.
It takes approximately 2.1 birth to maintain a given population. For all the flack Chareidim takein these pages , no one seems to give them credit for theie staunch belief that encourages them to make the sacrifices raising 5 or more children. How many chilonim do you know with 10 children? How terrible to read these Eichman and Mengele solutions from (Jewish?) readers!
How many actually live in Israel vs. regarding it as their metaphysical summer/vacation home? How many are war criminals? How many dispossessed (ethnically cleansed) "Israelis" should have been counted?
Statistics indicate that it is mistaken to categorize Israel as a "Jewish State". With a 25% non-Jewish population - it would be more correct to categorize Israel as a multi-religious country with a majority (but declining in terms of percentage) Jewish population.
you will remain a bunch of people after the third world war
Israel would have more people if only they'd get OFF peoples back, i.e. Messianc Jews and Evangelical Christians whom are just as Jewish as Abraham!!! If Judaism is the religion of Hashem (given to our ancestors) then why worry about Jews becoming Believers in the Mashiach Yeshua? It's all Judaism but Messiancs are being picked on because of our foolish ancestors... Smarten up during the New Year. We need each other.
According to those figures, Israel is about 80% Jewish again. So much for the "demographic nightmare" theory, which keeps telling us that Jews are almost a minority inside the '67 borders and definitely if you include "greater Israel". And to Peter SM: you're a clown, buddy. Those Arabs live INSIDE Israel - so they have not been "displaced", now, have they. Do journalists study maths?
Israel seems to count every person from anywhere in the world who visits Israel for a while and get instant citizenship. Many don't stay long. I mean who would?
One prophecy comes to pass and overrules all others spoken in vain from the mouths of foolish men. "Israel shall blossom and bud and fill the face of the earth with fruit."
It seems to be a state secret in Israel what is the real number of Israel's population (=people living inside the area of Israel) . Israel counts its Jewish population by counting the amount of people with Israeli passport using the gross method, not the number of those actually living in Israel (like normally is done). It is estimated that even 1 million of those 5.77 million Jews live in reality permanently abroad.
MAZEL TOV
The silence on the expelled, murdered, subjected to pogroms Jews in Moslem countries and the confiscation of the property of a million Jews there is deafenning .
There are jews in most parts of the Arab world. And to let you know these 1.559,100 arabs are not Israelis by origin, they are Israelis for the last 50 years only, and in their case they have been expelled from their villages and their original state, Palestine. They had either to choose whether to live outside like millions of Palestinians living all over the world or die!
grow up and stop your sick Islamophobia.
since Jews took away this land from Muslims who already lived there. There are way more Muslims killed or expelled by Israel than killed Jews in Muslim countries.
much as you would like to think. Are these Moslem countries claimuing to be light,s unto nations or only democracies in the middle East or have the "Most moral Army" on the planet. Must be tough have to rely on the same old monotinous prattle day after day--year after year ---decade after decade---and centuty after century. Well , if arab haters such as you had their way--it would be millenium after millenium.
they got kicked out because your irgun friends were going about palestine murdering people. your silence on that subject is DEAFENING.
no, don't hear a thing, must be your imagination.
Peter, it would benifit you to learn some history: Europeans (germans, poles, ukraines, moldovians, etc.) were the ones who made pogromsand evicted the Jews, oh yes, they also gassed and burned them. The Arab countries, even under nazi occupation SAVED Jews do their own detriment. Countries like Algeria, Morroco, even Libya!!!!!
How many olim left and went back home? How many leave each year and how many will escape from Isarel at the first chance?
Good question indeed!
butterman, the statistics is open and you can check it out. last year, migrational balance of israelis (excluding new immigrants) was the lowest since 1987. last year, the balance was around -8000, compared to -12000 a year before. this is pretty low compared to many other countries. including immigration, there was a migrational balance of +12000. escape? first chance? israel is a wonderful place to live and the economy is doing great. if it were so horrible, it would not have 7.6 million citizens. after all, with an israeli passport it is not too difficult to emigrate.
100,000,000
It's a free country and people can come and go as they please! No one needs to escape, they just have to buy an airline ticket. Btw, Israel was voted the 8th happiest place in the world, something which even shocked me. So it seems that for all the difficulties, stresses, worries and plain fears of what will happen in the future, most of us are content and satisfied in our lives in this beautiful land. I don't expect you to understand that.
Statistics and more dammed lies!
Whats the matter Des? Does it hurts you that Israel is flourishing?
I wonder what's the base for this, people living in Israel, people with an Israeli passport or some mix of both. If you include those with a passport living abroad in Ariel, Male Adumin e.a. you should perhaps include all the indigenous people living in the Westbank and the Palestinian refugees that were deported from their homes in Israel as well ;)
Shame you have not heard about it.
They include all Israeli citizens living in Israel and also abroad. Considering the tragedy of the Palestinian refugees, please remember that they are being kept in this status by their own leaders who chose not to allow them to resettle in other Arab lands or move out of the refugee camps on the West Bank or Gaza. You may know that there were millions of refugees from in Europe at the end of the second world war (I am not referring to the Jewish survivors of the concentration camps). Those refugees were absorbed into new countries and in time adjusted to their new lives. The same applies to the refugee situation after the India/Pakistan confrontation. In every part of the world people resettle - look what is happening in the UK now with millions flocking to reach a "new life". The only exception are the poor Palestinians - and I am not been sarcastic. The Arab leaders have kept them trapped in poorly equipped camps for political reasons in order to ensure that they would not move anywhere else. The Lebanese government has only now passed a law allowing them to work in Lebanon (with limitations). The 850,000 Palestinian refugees from the 1948 are still trapped in a capsule. The nearly one million Jews who were driven out of the Moslem lands were absorbed, either in Israel or elsewhere. You need to ask the Arab leaders why they don't care about their people before always laying the blame at Israeli's door.
Sounds like an automatic answering machine someone forgot to deprogram since the peace treaty with Egypt. Can some hacker try to update this machine to the year 1978 please or, if possible, to 1994. Updating it to the Arab Peace Initiative (2002) might be impossible owing to the Y2K Bug.
Remember what Begin said just minutes after the un partition in 1948--. " One day after the UN vote to partition Palestine, Menachem Begin, the commander of the Irgun gang and Israel's future Prime Minister between 1977-1983, proclaimed: "The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever." (Iron Wall p. 25) " Want more examples---didn,t think so psm===puts a hole in your propaganda.
And since both are around 20% of the population, anyone can extrapolate that within 1-2 generations, religious Jews will be an outright majority of israel's population, and the Arab percentage will fall. By 2025, this will be clear.
If the religious become the Jewish majority in Israel, they will control everything. The kenneset, and that means EVERYTHING. Instead of Israels Jewish population increasing, it will decline as the the better educated, and well off will simply leave. So we will have negative growth.
Well interesting comment. Where are u from anyways? 1939 Berlin? Gaza? Damascus? You certainly aren't Jewish because a real Jew would not advocate edicts similar to ancient Pharoah.
makes countries fail. educate them and force them off welfare.
Religious Jews have a lot of children and most of them abandon religious way of life as soon as they can. Middle ages are not coming back. Thank God.
...it was the same Jewish pride that made the forced sterilization of Israeli Arabs a subject in the Russian-Israeli paper Vesti a topic of discussion that scandalized many sabras and Israelis of non-Russian extraction few years ago. Will you please give me a verifiable reference of political leaders' discourse in Gaza or Damascus calling for the forceful sterilization of Jews in exchange to the academic reference I can give you about the eugenic programs that thrived among the Zionist leaders and theorists before the WWII? Thank you in advance.
no radio, TV, Internet. These people have no understanding of freedom of speech, live & let live, Democracy. Of course I was not serious. There is a real way to stop the religious taking over. That's change the electoral system. Where we the ordinary citizens send members to the Kenneset, but that would require the MK's to pass a bill. That would be like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas. You have a better solution, lets hear it..
I'm about as athiest as they come. I'm a Jew and proud to be a Jew, but by tradition, not religion. Having said that, I find your comments outragious, repugnant and totally void of any intelligence whatsoever. If any type of people shoud be sterilized, it's dangers to human kind like youself. I may be athiest but I will defend with my life anyone who wants to practice any religion they want - as long as it doesn't endanger others.