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Monday, December 31, 2018
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Monday, December 31, 2018
New year’s population count puts Israel at just under 9 million residents
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIn honor of the new year, the Central Bureau for Statistics releases new population numbers, placing the number of inhabitants in Israel at roughly 8,972,000, a 2 percent bump from last year.
Of that number, 6.668 million are Jews (74.3% of the total population), 1.878 million are Arabs (20.9%) and 426,000 are classified as “Others” (4.8%).
A total of 185,000 babies were born in Israel in 2018, the CBS says.
While the 2% increase had to do largely with natural growth, 19% of the bump was due to international migration to Israel. Thirty-two thousand six hundred people moved to the Jewish state in the past year, nearly 84% of whom are not Jewish.
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