JERUSALEM (VINnews) — On the eve of Israel’s Independence Day, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) published demographic details about the country. Israel’s population in 2020 numbers 9,190,000 of whom 74% are Jewish (6.806 million), 21% Arab (1.930 million, the number includes Christian Arabs) and 454,000 defined as “others”, mainly people of non-Jewish origin who immigrated under the Law of Return.
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During the past year the population of Israel grew by 171,000 people (1.9%). 180,000 babies were born, 32,000 new immigrants arrived and 44,000 people passed away.
At the establishment of the state the population number numbered 806,000 people and since then 3.3 million immigrants have arrived in Israel, 44% of them after 1990 when the Soviet Union collapsed. 78% of the population are native-born.
In 2030 the population is expected to number 11.1 million people, in 2040 -13.2 million and in 2048, on Israel’s 100th anniversary the projected population is 15.2 million people.
Nearly 950,000 children aged 0-4 live in Israel. About 50,000 people aged 90 and over live in Israel.
The Israeli population is young compared to other developed countries: 28% of Israeli residents are children under the age of 14, while the average in OECD countries is 18%. The proportion of people aged 65 and over in the population is 12%, compared to the average of 17% in other OECD countries.
Approximately 45% of world Jewry now lives in Israel.
