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Friday, September 21, 2001 | return to: international
On eve of 5762, Israel’s population stands at 6.46 million
by JERUSALEM (JPS) -- At the beginning of the new year, Israel's population has reached 6,458,000, the Central Bureau of Statistics, During 5761, the country's population grew by 2.3 percent, or 147,000, nearly 20,000 less than last year's growth. The drop was
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There are some 225,000 non-Jewish immigrants and their families living here, of whom 200,000 are Christian and 25,000 unclassified.
The Arab population reached 1,215,000, 18.7 percent of the total. This includes Muslims (15.2 percent of the total population), Druse (1.6 percent) and Christians (2.15 percent), and has remained constant for the past few years.
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