 |
Demography of Palestine & Israel, the West Bank
& Gaza
(1553-2006)
| |
1553-1554* |
1800* |
1822 |
1890* |
1900 |
1915 |
1916-1918 |
1922 |
1925 |
1931 |
1939 |
1945 |
1967 |
2006 |
| Palestine |
205,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Muslims |
|
246,300 |
|
431,800 |
|
590,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jews |
|
|
24,000f |
42,900 |
50,000f |
83,000 |
54,000f |
84,000f |
126,000f |
693,147 |
449,000 |
|
|
|
Christians |
|
21,800 |
|
57,400 |
|
17,000 |
|
|
|
175,000 |
|
|
|
|
Palestine
(British Mandate) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Muslims |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
590,890 |
|
|
|
1,061,270 |
|
|
| Jews |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
83,794 |
|
|
|
553,600 |
|
|
| Christians |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
73,024 |
|
|
|
135,550 |
|
|
| Other |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,474 |
|
|
|
14,100 |
|
|
| Israel |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,773,900 |
7,116,200 |
| Jews |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,383,600 |
5,393,600 |
| Arabs and Other |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
390,300a |
1,722,600 |
| West Bank |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
598,637 |
1,571,575d |
| -Muslims |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
565,904 |
|
| -Christians |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
29,446 |
|
| -Other |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,287 |
|
| Gaza Strip |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
356,261 |
963,028d |
| -Muslims |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
352,532 |
|
| -Christians |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,306 |
|
| -Others |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,424 |
|
| Total |
205,000 |
275,000 |
|
532,000 |
|
689,275 |
|
757,182 |
|
|
|
1,764,520 |
3,728,798 |
8,153,603e |
*Roberto Bacchi, The Population of Israel,
(Jerusalem, Hebrew University, 1977), p. 5
aOf these, 65,857 werecounted in the 1967
Census of East Jerusalem.
bOf these, 138,600 are defined as "Israelis in
Jewish localities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza Areas."
cEstimates for Dec. 31, 1995.
dEstimates for Midyear 1996.
eThis grand total is certainly inflated,
as the 174,000 "Arab and other" inhabitants of
Jerusalem, included for the total for Israel in the Israeli
publications, must overlap to a considerable extent with
the 254,387 inhabitants of the "Jerusalem District,"
included in the West Bank total of the Palestinian publication.
On the other hand, the Israeli estimates relate to the end
of 1995, the Palestinian to mid-1996.
f Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
Sources: Governmet of Palestine, Report and General Abstracts
of the Census of 1922 taken on 23rd of October, 1922,
compiled by J.B. Barron, Jerusalem, 1922.
Government of Palestine, Office of Statistics, Village
Statistics, April 1945. Jerusalem, 1945.
Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, List of Settlements,
their Population and Codes, 31, XII, 1967, Technical
Publications Series 28, Jerusalem 1968.
Israel Defense Forces, Census of Population conducted
by the Central Bureau of Statistics, 1: West Bank of the
Jordan, Gaza Strip and Northern Sinai, Golan Heights, Jerusalem 1967.
Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, List of Localities,
their Populations and Codes, 31, XII, 1995. Technical
Publications Series 68, Jerusalem 1996..
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Small Area Population:
Revised Estimates for 1996, Ramallah, April 1996.
Kedar, Benjamin. The
Changing Land Between the Jordan and the Sea. Israel:
Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Press, 1999.
Avneri, Arieh. The
Claim of Dispossession. NJ: Transaction Books, 1984.
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