JERUSALEM (JNS) – Nearly one third of Israel’s Jewish population will be haredi Orthodox by the year 2050, according to projections by Israel’s National Economic Council.
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Israel’s current population of 9.2 million is expected to grow to 16 million by 2050. Of those 16 million, about a quarter are projected by Israel’s National Economic Council to be haredi Orthodox, Haaretz reported Monday.
The new population figures point to a future in which Israel’s Jewish population continues to make up about 80% of its population but in which that Jewish population skews far more heavily Orthodox than ever before. Currently, Israel’s Orthodox population makes up 12.6% of the population. By 2050, that figure will rise to 24% of the total population, the council claims.
Most of that growth will result from the Orthodox community’s birth rate of 6.7 children per woman, far higher than the rate of 3.01 among the population as a whole. Across all sectors of the population, Israelis ages 19 and younger will make up over a third of the population.
Most of Israel’s Orthodox Jews are expected to remain concentrated in Jerusalem and its surrounding area as well as in the city of Beit Shemesh. But the Orthodox population is also projected to grow in Israel’s south, where a new Orthodox city is being planned, as well as to a smaller degree in the north.
Tel Aviv and its surrounding cities and suburbs will continue to be the most highly populated area of the country. That area will also see a major increase in the number of elderly people, with the number of people over the age of 65 approximately doubling.
The country’s population growth across all sectors is projected to place greater demands on the country’s housing stock, already considered to be insufficient for the current population’s needs, as well as transportation systems and education system.
Ken Yirbu!
thats just chareidi if you add the D’L crowd itll easily be 50% along with some traditional Sefardim, the only secular Israelis left will be toeiva, or environmentalists wholl move to Berlin and intermarry as they literally lack even a basic understanding of Yahadut due to Zionism indoctrination.
Great!
The two thirds of the population will support the one third.
Keep up the good work!
the writing is on the wall. Soon the country will be ready for Moshiach
OTD rate unfortunately growing too
The Zionist entity (and Zionism and its shmad) will be history long before then. Also, Mashiach will likely be here by then. So the numbers will be simply 100% Torah-observant (one of Mashiach’s jobs).
These predictions have been made before, and they turned out to be wrong.
In the united states, they have been doing the national Jewish population survey for several decades and the heredi birth rates are such that they should have been a majority of all Jews at least 30 years ago.
And yet they managed to stay around 10%.
Lots of population loss / attrition is one problem.
The second problem is that just because something happens doesn’t mean that it is sustainable.
You can’t have 50% of the population not working not paying taxes and being parasitic without some repercussions somewhere