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Israel celebrates 60, population count 7,282,000

Israel established with 873,000 inhabitants, numbers have been multiplied eight times since then. Today Israel has a population of 7,282,000

On the eve of Israel’s Independence Day the country’s population stands at 7,282,000 people and 75.5% are Jewish. These numbers were presented Wednesday by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.

 

In the bureau’s “60 years in a statistical mirror” booklet it was noted that the Israeli population has increased from 873,000 people in November 1948 to 7.2 million at the beginning of 2008. According to the forecasts for 2030, Israel will have a population of approximately 10 million people.

 

As of now, 5,499,000 are Jewish, of which 69% were born in Israel. 1,461,000 are Arab and 322,000 are considered “others”.

 

As a result of the population growth, the population density has also grown from 43 people to each square kilometer in 1948 to 310 people to each square kilometer in 2006. The most crowded region is Tel Aviv with 7,000 people per square kilometer as opposed to the least crowded region, the south with 72 people per square kilometer.

 

In 2006 the population was more spread out than it was in 1948. At the country’s inception the northern and southern regions combined contained 19% of the population and by 2006 this number was increased to 31%. However, parts of the population located in the Tel Aviv and central regions were decreased throughout the years from 71% to 53%.

 

The Israeli population’s educational level is on a constant incline. In 1948, 208 people who studied at the Hebrew University and at the Technion received a university degree. In 2006 close to 53,000 people who studied at 62 different institutions for higher education received degrees.

 

Moreover, the statistics advertised by the bureau show that since the establishment of the country, 57 million tourists have entered Israel. Tourist entrances have increased from 47,000 a year in the 1950s to 2.7 million in 2000.

 

Nonetheless, Israelis also like passing through the David Ben Gurion Airport and all other crossings on their way outside of Israel’s borders. In the past 60 years, there have been 60 million Israeli exits from the country. Since Israel’s establishment, the number has constantly increased from an average of 38,000 a year in the 1950s to 4.2 million in 2007.

 


פרסום ראשון: 05.07.08, 23:13
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