Jewish and Non-Jewish Population of Palestine-Israel

Jewish and Non-Jewish Population of Palestine-Israel

(1517-2004)

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Year	Grand Total	Jews	Non-Jews	Non-Jewish Percentage
1517	300,000 est.	5,000	295,000	98.3
1882	300,000	24,000	276,000	92.0
1918	660,000	60,000	600,000	90.9
1931	1,035,821	174,610	861,211	83.1
1936	1,366,692	384,078	982,614	71.9
1946	1,810,037	543,000	1,267,037	70.0
1948*	872,700	716,700	156,000	17.9
1949	1,173,900	1,013,900	160,000	13.6
1950	1,370,100	1,203,000	167,100	12.2
1951	1,577,800	1,404,400	173,400	11.0
1952	1,629,500	1,450,200	179,300	11.0
1953	1,669,400	1,483,600	185,800	11.1
1954	1,717,800	1,526,000	191,800	11.1
1955	1,789,100	1,590,500	198,600	11.1
1956	1,872,400	1,667,500	204,900	10.9
1957	1,976,000	1,762,800	213,200	10.7
1958	2,031,700	1,810,200	221,500	10.9
1959	2,088,700	1,858,800	229,900	11.0
1960	2,150,400	1,911,300	239,100	11.1
1961	2,234,200	1,981,700	252,500	11.3
1962	2,331,800	2,068,900	262,900	11.2
1963	2,430,100	2,155,600	274,500	11.3
1964	2,525,600	2,239,200	286,400	11.3
1965	2,598,400	2,299,100	299,300	11.5
1966	2,657,400	2,344,900	312,500	11.7
1967	2,776,300	2,383,600	392,700	14.1
1968	2,841,100	2,434,800	406,300	14.3
1969	2,929,500	2,506,800	422,700	14.4
1970	3,022,100	2,582,000	440,100	14.5
1971	3,120,700	2,662,000	458,700	14.7
1972	3,225,000	2,752,700	472,300	14.6
1973	3,338,200	2,845,000	493,200	14.8
1974	3,421,600	2,906,900	514,700	15.0
1975	3,493,200	2,959,400	533,800	15.3
1976	3,575,400	3,020,400	555,000	15.5
1977	3,653,200	3,077,300	575,900	15.7
1978	3,737,600	3,141,200	596,400	15.9
1979	3,836,200	3,218,400	617,800	16.1
1980	3,921,700	3,282,700	639,000	16.3
1981	3,977,700	3,320,300	657,400	16.5
1982	4,063,700	3,737,200	690,400	17.0
1983	4,118,600	3,412,500	706,100	17.1
1984	4,199,700	3,471,700	728,000	17.3
1985	4,266,200	3,517,200	749,000	17.5
1986	4,331,300	3,561,400	769,900	17.7
1987	4,406,500	3,612,900	793,600	18.0
1988	4,476,800	3,659,000	817,800	18.2
1989	4,559,600	3,717,700	842,500	18.4
1990	4,821,700	3,946,700	875,000	18.1
1991	5,058,800	4,144,600	914,200	18.0
1992	5,195,900	4,242,500	953,400	18.3
1993	5,327,600	4,335,200	992,400	18.6
1994	5,471,500	4,441,100	1,030,400	18.8
1995	5,612,300	4,522,300	1,090,000	19.4
1996	5,757,900	4,616,100	1,141,800	19.8
1997	5,900,000	4,701,600	1,198,400	20.3
1998	6,041,400	4,785,100	1,256,300	20.8
1999	6,209,100	4,872,800	1,336,300	21.5
2000	6,369,300	4,955,400	1,413,900	22.2
2001**	6,508,800	5,025,000	1,483,800	22.8
2002	6,631,100	5,094,200	1,536,900	23.2
2003	6,748,400	5,165,400	1,583,300	23.4
2004	6,869,500	5,237,600	1,631,900	23.7

* Majority Arab [non-Jewish] population displaced by Israel's establishment.

** The data do not include about 150,000 guest workers.

Source:Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present, Ed. by Itamar Rabinovich and Jehuda Reinharz, Brandeis University Press, Waltham, Mass., 2008. (pp.571-572)

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