Population of Israel/Palestine
(1553 - Present)
|
1553 |
1800 |
1915 |
1922 |
1945 |
1967 |
2005 |
2013 |
Ottoman Palestine
|
British Mandate
|
Israel
|
Muslims |
|
246,300 |
590,000 |
590,890 |
1,061,270 |
289,600 |
1,140,600 |
1,658,000 |
Jews |
|
24,000 |
83,000 |
83,794 |
553,600 |
2,383,600 |
5,313,800 |
6,042,000 |
Christians/Others |
|
21,800 |
17,000 |
82,498 |
149,650 |
103,100 |
261,600 |
318,000 |
Total |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8,018,000 |
Sources: Governmet of Palestine, Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 taken on 23rd of October, 1922, compiled by J.B. Barron, Jerusalem, 1922.
Government of Palestine, Office of Statistics, Village Statistics, April 1945. Jerusalem, 1945.
Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, List of Settlements, their Population and Codes, 31, XII, 1967, Technical Publications Series 28, Jerusalem 1968.
Israel Defense Forces, Census of Population conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics, 1: West Bank of the Jordan, Gaza Strip and Northern Sinai, Golan Heights, Jerusalem 1967.
Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, List of Localities, their Populations and Codes, 31, XII, 1995. Technical Publications Series 68, Jerusalem 1996..
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Small Area Population: Revised Estimates for 1996, Ramallah, April 1996.
Kedar, Benjamin. The Changing Land Between the Jordan and the Sea. Israel: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Press, 1999.
Avneri, Arieh. The Claim of Dispossession. NJ: Transaction Books, 1984.
"Statistics Report: Less enlisting to army." Ynet News (December 28, 2006); Roberto Bacchi, The Population of Israel, (Jerusalem, Hebrew University, 1977), p. 5 |