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Population topped 10 million over past year, census bureau says ahead of Independence Day
Illustrative photo of an Israeli crowd. (Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
Ahead of Israel’s 77th Independence Day, the Central Bureau of Statistics announces that the country’s population crossed the 10 million mark over the past year.
The bureau says that since last Independence Day, the population grew by around 135,000, bringing the total population to around 10,094,000.
The count includes 7.7 million residents registered as Jewish or “other,” a category that includes non-Arab Christians and those without any ethnicity listed on official papers. In past years, Jews and “other” have been counted separately.
The Arab population is put at 2.1 million, accounting for 20.9 percent of the country’s residents.
The total population figure also includes 248,000 foreigners.
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