Demographics for the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict

Israel and the Jews May 2017

In Israel the total population is 8,680,000.

The Jewish population makes up 6,484,000 (74.7%);

1,808,000 (20.8%) are Arabs;

and, those identified as "others" (non-Arab Christians, Baha'i, etc) make up 4.5% of the population (388,000 people).

In May 2014, the Israeli Housing Minister Uri Ariel, who himself lives in the West Bank settlement of Kfar Adumim, put the settler population at up to 750,000: 400,000 in the West Bank and up to 350,000 in East Jerusalem

The population of Israel is forecast to reach 10 million by 2025 or sooner.

Israel welcomed approximately 30,000 new immigrants between Independence Day 2016 and 2017, with most immigrants arriving in Israel from France (25%), the Ukraine (24%), Russia (23%), and the United States (9%).

Of Israeli Jews, 44% self-identify as Secular, 11% simply as religious, and 9% as Ultra-Orthodox.

Those of European and American ancestry make up about 2.2 million (36%) of the Jewish population while Africans fill out another 14.5% and Asians are 11.2%.

Out of the 14.3 million Jewish people in the world, 43% reside in Israel.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/newpop.html

In the US 5,300,000

In France 465,000

In Canada 385,000

In the UK 269,568

In Russia 186,000

In Argentina 181,300 - 230,000

In Australia 112,500

In Germany 99,695

In Brazil 95,000

In Italy 28,000

However figures for the global and country by country ‘Enlarged Jewish Population’ (a looser definition based on ancestry and members of Jewish households are much higher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country

see also: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/jewpop.html

The Palestinians – as estimated in 2016

Total population worldwide 12.37 millionin 2015 http://imemc.org/article/74399/

Palestinian territories total 4,816,503 in 2016

(possibly5,021,008 in 2018 http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/palestine-population/)

West Bank 2,935,368 (there are 19 UNRWA refugee camps with 228,560 Palestinian refugees, and 774,167 registered refugees in total)

Gaza 1,881,135 (there are 8 UNRWA refugee camps with 560,964 Palestinian refugees, and 1,276,929 registered refugees in total)

Israel 1,808,000

http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_Rainbow/Documents/gover_e.htm

Global total figure for Palestinians descended from refugees 4,950,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_refugees

refugees in Jordan – an estimate including Jordanian citizens of Palestinian descent

2,100,000–3,240,000

refugees in Syria, 528,616 (2015) but where are they now? Perhaps 200,000 still in Syria and 100,000 in Europe

refugees n Lebanon 458,369 (2016)

in Chile 450,000-500,000

in Saudi Arabia 240,000

in Qatar 295,000

in Iraq 34,000 before the civil war

in the US

255,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians