Last year, Israel’s population (Jews and non-Jews) crossed the 9 million mark (Graph 4). In November 1948, shortly after the founding of the state, the local population numbered 873,000. The one million mark was passed in early 1950, the 2 million mark in 1959, 3 million in 1971, 4 million in 1983, 5 million in 1992, 6 million in 1999, 7 million in 2007, 8 million in 2014 and, again, the 9 million mark was passed just recently. A larger population, combined with high fertility rates and positive net migration,is shortening the intervals between each additional million-resident milestone. Thus, while it took Israel 12 years to go from 2 to 3 million residents, it took only nine years to go from 4 to 5 million, and just five years to go from 8 to 9 million. Last year, 2019, the Israeli population grew by nearly 130,000. The Central Bureau of Statistics forecasts that Israel’s population will reach 10.2 million by 2025.13
Article Library / Annual Assessment
2020 Annual Assessment
- Opening Remarks By Avinoam Bar-Yosef
- Foreword By Dennis Ross and Stuart Eizenstat
- Policy Recommendations
- Trends
- In-Depth Analyses
- Indices
- Reports
- The COVID-19 Crisis: Jewish Institutions are Rethinking Everything
- Religion and State in Israel Project: Seeking a Better Balance
- The Impact of Anti-Semitism on Jewish Identity: From Identity “in Itself” to Identity “for Itself” (Preliminary Report)
- Israel’s Interests amid Increasing US-China Tensions
- Gone Global: The Acceptance and Influence of Israeli Television in Foreign Markets
- Cultural Currency
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