As we reach another year in the Hebrew calendar, there is always a review of the population and the Israel Bureau of Statistics has a wealth of information on the demographics of the country.
The State of Israel had a population of approximately 9,593,000 inhabitants as of September 2022. Some 74% were Jews of all backgrounds (about 7,021,000 individuals), 21% were Arab of any religion other than Jewish (about 2,206,000 individuals).
The remaining 5% (about 498,000 individuals) were defined as "others", including people of Jewish ancestry not deemed Jewish by religious law and people who are family members of Jewish immigrants (neither of which are registered at the Ministry of Interior as Jews), Christian non-Arabs, Muslim non-Arabs and all other residents who have neither an ethnic nor religious classification.
Israel's annual population growth rate stood at 2.0% in 2015, more than three times faster than the OECD average of around 0.6%.[4] With an average of three children per woman, Israel also has the highest fertility rate in the OECD by a considerable margin and much higher than the OECD average of 1.7.
Age structure
Unlike most developed countries, and some not so well developed, the percentage of the over 65’s is very healthy. Serious problems are on the way in many countries, Iran and Turkey as two examples, where the percentage of the elderly is climbing to unsupportable levels of over 25%.
The breakdown in Israel is:-
· 0–14 years: 28.0%
· 15–64 years: 62.1%
· 65 years and over: 9.9%
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