Israel Now Numbers 7,411,000 People And Growing
April 27, 2009 by tremington
Filed under Featured Articles, Israel Watch
When the State of Israel was established in 1948, there were approximately 806,000 people who lived there, with barely one lone city with a population over 100,000. Today there are 14 cities with at least 100,000 people residing in them and of those 14 cities, 5 have populations in excess of 200,000.
With a population still growing, Israel now is the home to 7,411,000 and 75.5% of those people are Jewish. Arabs make up just over 20% of the population and the remainder is a mixture, mostly those not registered as Jews.
Last year’s growth rate was 1.8%, growing an estimated 125,000 citizens.
Israel is about to celebrate its 61 birthday of independence.
Tom Remington