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13.75 Million Of Us
Jews make up .2 percent of the world.
Anav Silverman
Tazpit
T
he global Jewish population
reached 13.75 million in the
past year, with an increase
of 88,000 people, a study by Hebrew
University Professor Sergio DellaPergola
reveals.
According to the study, one out of
every 514 people in the world is Jewish,
less than 0.2 percent of mankind.
About 43 percent of the world's Jewish
community lives in Israel, making Israel
the country with the largest Jewish
population.
The Central Bureau of Statistics
reported on the eve of Rosh Hashanah
that the total population of Israel in
2012 grew to nearly 8 million. About 73
percent of the population is native born.
The Israeli Jewish population stands
at 5,978,600, up 1.8 percent; the Arab
population numbers at 1,636,600, up
2.4 percent; and the rest of the popula-
tion including Christians and non-Jews
reached 318,000 people, up 1.3 percent.
Israel's Jewish population makes up 75
percent of the state's total people.
In all, the Jewish state's population
increased by 96,300 people in 2012, a
growth rate that did not diverge from
the average rate in the past eight years.
Part of Israel's population increase
comes in part of the new immigrants
that have arrived to the country. In
2011, Israel welcomed 16,892 new
immigrants as citizens, with the largest
populations coming from Russia (3,678),
followed by Ethiopia (2,666), United
States (2,363), Ukraine (2,051) and
France (1,775).
Israel's population is relatively young
compared to populations in other
western countries, with 28 percent
of the population
aged 0-14. Israel's
life expectancy is
one of the high-
est of the interna-
tional Organization for
Economic Cooperation
and Development's (OECD)
34 member states, with Jewish
males' life expectancy 4.2 years higher
than their Arab counterparts.
The Central Bureau of Statistics also
found that 40 percent of Israel's popula-
tion lives in the center of the country,
with Tel Aviv as Israel's densest region,
while 17 percent lives in the north,
14 percent in the south, 12 percent in
Jerusalem and Haifa, and 4 percent in
Judea and Samaria.
More than 47,885 couples married
in Israel in the past year, of which 75
percent were Jewish and 21 percent
Muslim. In 2011, there were 166,296
babies born in Israel.
The world's principal religious popu-
lations divide as follows according to
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
in 2012: Christians at 33 percent or 2.1
billion, Muslims at 24 percent or 1.65
billion, Hindus at 14 percent or 900 mil-
lion, and Buddhists at 6 percent or 350
million. At least 1 billion people in the
world do not ascribe to any religion at
all.
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