Israel’s Population Exceeds 9.5 Million
The population of Israel is 9,506,000, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) announced Sunday, ahead of the country’s 74th Independence Day. This includes 7.02 million Jews, who are 73.9% of the population, 2 million Arabs (21% of the population), and 478,000 members of other groups (about 5% of the population). About 79% of Israel’s current Jewish population is native-born.
About 28% of the country’s population is aged 0 to 14. Only about 12% are aged 65 and up.
Israel’s population has increased by about 176,000 people since last year at this time – a 1.9% rise over last year’s figure. Last year, the population rose by some 137,000 people or 1.5%.
Since last year at this time, 38,000 people have immigrated to Israel. This represents the largest number of new immigrants in the last 20 years, according to the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency for Israel. It is more than double the number that immigrated to Israel in the previous year, around 16,300 people. About half of the new immigrants this past year came from Ukraine and Russia, due to the effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Israel’s population is 11.8 times as large as it was in 1948 when it proclaimed its independence. Since then, 3.3 million people have immigrated to Israel, about 44.7% of them since 1990. The population is expected to grow to 13.2 million by 2040, CBS predicted.
