{"id":80008,"date":"2026-04-23T13:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/80008\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:54:13","slug":"israeli-population-hits-10-244-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/80008\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Population Hits 10.244 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-233214 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Nation-population.webp\" alt=\"A group of children standing in front of a large Israeli flag.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\"  \/>Israeli children play with Israeli flags ahead of Israel\u2019s 78th Independence Day, at \u201cKobi kindergarten\u201d in Moshav Yashresh, on April 16, 2026. (Photo credit: Yossi Aloni\/Flash90 via JNS)<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s population has reached 10.244 million as the country marks its 78th Independence Day, according to data released by the Central Bureau of Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Of the total population, 7.97 million are Jews and others (76%), 2.15 million are Arabs (21%) and 296,000 are foreign residents (2.9%), according to the figures.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s population has grown by 146,000 since its last Independence Day, registering an increase of 1.4%, the Bureau noted.<\/p>\n<p>During this period, about 177,000 babies were born, some 21,000 immigrants arrived, roughly 48,000 people died and the net balance of Israelis staying abroad stands at approximately 45,000.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the state\u2019s founding, Israel\u2019s population was 806,000. Today, it is more than 12.5 times larger, according to the CBS data.<\/p>\n<p>More than 3.5 million immigrants have arrived in Israel since the establishment of the state in 1948, about 1.68 million (47.8%) of them since 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli demographics remain young among Western countries, with about 27% of its population aged 0\u201314 and 13% aged 65 and older.<\/p>\n<p>As of the end of 2024, about 45% of the world\u2019s Jewish population lives in Israel, and about 81% of Jews in Israel are native-born (\u201csabras\u201d in Hebrew), according to the Bureau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli children play with Israeli flags ahead of Israel\u2019s 78th Independence Day, at \u201cKobi kindergarten\u201d in Moshav Yashresh,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[23677,37,28927,9654],"class_list":{"0":"post-80008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-independence-day","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-israels-population","11":"tag-population"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116454363275653394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}