Israel at 54: A Statistical Glimpse

Israel at 54: A Statistical Glimpse*

(2002)

Geography

Geographical Regions

Arid Zones	45%
Plains and Valleys	25%
Mountains	16%
Rift Valley	9%
Coastal Strip	5%

Selected elevations:

Mt. Hermon, Golan 9,220 ft. 2,810 m.

Mt. Meron, Upper Galilee 3,964 ft. 1,208 m.

Mt. Ramon, Negev 3,396 ft. 1,035 m.

Mt. of Olives, Jerusalem 2,739 ft. 835 m.

Mt. Tabor, Lower Galilee 1,930 ft. 588 m.

Mt. Carmel, Haifa 1,792 ft. 546 m.

Dead Sea - lowest point on earth - 1,300 ft. - 400 m.

People

	1980	1990	2000
Population	3,921,700	4,821,700	6,289,200
Civilian labor force	1,318,100	1,649,900	2,435,500
Jews in Israel, as a percentage of world Jewry	25	30	37
Life expectancy Females Males	75.7 72.1	78.4 75.7	80.3 76.1
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)	15.6	9.9	5.8
School population	1,200,700	1,451,300	1,953,936
Percentage of the population (15+) with 13 years or more of formal schooling	19.2	25.3	37.4

Population by Religion

Jews 78.1%

Muslims 15.1%

Christians 2.1%

Druze 1.6%

Not classified by religion 2.9%

Population Distribution

Urban localities 90.6%

Rural localities 9.4%

  Of which:
   Moshavim
   Kibbutzim
3.2%
1.9%

Immigrants by Continent
1948-2000

Europe 1,717,60

Africa 476,100

Asia 410,600

America & Oceania 214,600

Unknown 31,550

Immigrants by Year of Immigration

1948-1951
688,000

1952-1959
272,000

1960-1969
374,000

1970-1979
346,000

1980-1989
154,000

1990-2000
968,800

Economy

State Budget, 2001: NIS 245.8 billion

Gross Domestic Product
(at 1995 prices - NIS 10⁶) 1980 1990 2000

  - Total
  - Per capita 138,975
36,005 197,644
42,411 326,517
51,939

Private consumption
(at 1995 prices - NIS 10⁶)

  - expenditure per capita 16,204 23,308 31,418

Net exports of goods (millions of dollars) 5,291.9 11,603.1 31,403.8

thereof:
  Industrial products (excl. diamonds)
  Agricultural products
3,340.4
555.7
7,696.8
657.2
21,004.6
702.1

Net imports of goods (millions of dollars) 7,845.7 15,107.1 35,749.5

Tourists arriving 1,065,800 1,131,700 2,416,750

Air passengers (annual) 2,847,000 3,720,000 9,608,000

Freight shipped by air (annual in tons) 105,800 194,160 336,180

Production of electricity (in millions of kilwatt/hours) 12,400 20,900 42,900

Private cars 410,000 803,000 1,397,000

Education

University Students by Field of Study
(Total 113,010 students in 7 universities)

Agriculture	1.3%
Law	3.8%
Medicine	8.1%
Engineering	13.2%
Science and mathematics	16.1%
Humanities	27.9%
Social Sciences	29.7%

* Figures based on the Statistical Abstract of Israel, No. 52, 2001

Source: Israeli Foreign Ministry