Ahead of Israel’s 72nd Independence Day, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) has published the nation’s latest population figures.
The Jewish state is home to 9,327,000 people, among them 6.894 million Jews (73.9 percent of the population), 1.966 million Arabs (21.1 percent) and 467,000 citizens of other ethnicities (5 percent).
Since Independence Day last year, the country’s population has increased by 137,000, or 1.5 percent. A total of 167,000 babies were born, while 16,300 new immigrants arrived and 50,000 Israelis died.
The state has a young population with 28.1 percent of Israelis being between the age of 0 and 14, and only 12 percent being over 65.
When the state was founded, its population stood at 806,000 with 82.1 percent of the population being Jewish and 17.9 percent Arab. Since 1948, 3.3 million immigrants have arrived, 44.7 percent of whom made aliyah in 1990 or later.