Israel is home to 8,522,000 people, according to new statistics released by the Central Bureau of Statistics ahead of Independence Day, 182,000 more souls than the year before.
The number includes 6,377,000 Jews and 1,771,000 Arabs, as well as 374,000 others.
The statistics show that 36,000 immigrants moved to Israel, 192,000 babies were born and 47,000 people died since Israel last celebrated Independence Day.
The bureau also touts growing affluence in the country since the Jewish state’s salad days, noting that while there were 34,103 cars tooting about in 1951, in 2014 there were 2,965,727 clogging Israel’s roadways.
View of Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv in 2015 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
Similarly, while in 1956/1957 only 12 percent of Israelis had washing machines, today 96% do.
The same number of people have cell phones today, while in 1963, only 13% had a phone line.
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