A new report by the Taub Center finds that Israel’s population growth rate is set to fall below one percent this year for the first time in the country’s history, dropping to 0.9%.
The study says that the growth rate has fallen under 1.5% twice in Israel’s history, both times in the early 1980s.
The unprecedentedly low growth rate this year, the report says, is mainly due to Israel’s net migration, where data has shown more people leaving the country than coming.
In 2024, 82,700 Israelis left the country, about 50,000 more than immigrated to Israel, and that trend was expected to continue in 2025, demographers noted.
The number of births, historically high in Israel when compared with Western nations, has held steady, while the death rate is slowly rising, the Taub report says.
Zev Stub contributed to this report.
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