Israel’s population grew by around 101,000 to 10.148 million since last Rosh Hashanah, the Central Bureau of Statistics announces, continuing a several-year trend of slowing population growth.
The 1 percent growth is down from 1.2% recorded last year and 1.6% the previous year.
The data also shows that only 25,000 new immigrants arrived in the country, down from 33,000 last year and 46,000 the year before.
Taken together with 21,000 Israelis who returned from abroad, and 5,000 more who immigrated via family unification procedures, the figure still falls short of approximately 79,000 Israelis who moved abroad over the past 12 months, CBS says.
The bureau says 179,000 babies were born, down from 183,000 last year. But on the plus side, the approximately 50,000 deaths were down from 55,000 who passed from Rosh Hashanah 2023 to 2024.
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