From Ynet by Yaron
Druckman 26-4-2020
Israel’s population
has reached 9.2 million, the Central Bureau of Statistics said Sunday in its
annual report published ahead of Independence Day.
According to the
report, Israel’s population has grown by 171,000 people since Independence Day
last year and is expected to reach 11.1 million in 2030.
By 2048, when Israel
turns 100, the CBS forecasts a population of 15.2 million.
Some 74% of the
population are Jews, 6.8 million, while 21% of the population are Arabs,
approximately 1.93 million.
Another 454,000
people are non-Arab Christians, from minority religions and people listed as
non-religious in the census. They account for the remaining 5%.
This number does not
include some 164,000 foreign workers living in Israel.
Among the Jewish
population, 78% are native-born, while 3.3 million people have immigrated to
the country. Some 32,000 new migrants arrived in Israel over the past 2 years.
Since last year,
180,000 babies have been born, and 44,000 people passed away.
According to the
data, 36.1% of Israel's population are below the age of 19, 31.6% are between
the ages of 20-49 and 25.1% are over the age of 50, with 0.6% over the age of
90.
The main countries
from which immigrants came this year were:
Russia (46.6%),
Ukraine (18.8%),
US (7.7%) and France
(6.9%).
about 4,600 – from
America and Oceania (13.7%),
about 1,400 from
Asia (4.1%) and
about 500 – from
Africa (1.4%).
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