Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics reported that on the eve of the country’s 75th Independence Day Israel’s population reached 9.727 million people.
Of these, 7.145 million Israelis are Jews or 73.5 percent of the total population.
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2.048 million Israelis are identified as Arabs or 21 percent of the population.
534,000 are designated as “other,” or 5.5 percent of the total population.
Since its last Independence Day, Israel’s population grew by 216,000, a rate of just 2.3 percent. The Central Bureau of Statistics reported that this number included 183,000 newborn babies and 79,000 new immigrants.
51,000 Israelis passed away since Independence Day 2022.
At the time of the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the country’s population numbered 806,000 souls. Today the population of Israel is 12 times greater than the population at the time of the establishment of the State.
Since the founding of the State of Israel, approximately 3.3 million immigrants came to live in the country. About 1.5 million (43.7% of all immigrants) have come since 1990, when the Soviet Union began to collapse leading to a massive wave of Jewish emigration to Israel from Eastern Europe.
In the last 75 years there have been roughly 149,000 Israeli citizen emigres who returned to live in the country.
The Central Bureau of Statistics predicts that in the year 2030 the population of Israel will reach 11.1 million, and in 2040 the country will have a population of 13.2 million.
And when Israel’s celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2048 the Central Bureau of Statistics predicts that it will have a population of 15.2 million.
At the end of 2021, 46 percent of all of the Jews in the world lived in Israel. At that time 79 percent of Israel’s Jews were born in the country.
Israel is a young country in which 28 percent of the population is only 14 years old or younger and 12 percent are over the age of 65.
