Over the past decade, Israel's population has grown by some 2 million, the Central Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday in a new report.
According to the new figures, some 9,136,000 people live in Israel as of 2019, of whom 6,772,000 (or 74%) are classified as Jews by the government. Another 418,000 (2%) are people who made aliyah through the Law of Return, although they are counted separately because they are not listed as Jews on official government records.
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Arabs make up 21% (1,916,000) of the population.
Some 177,000 babies joined Israel's population in 2019. Some 74% of them were born to Jewish mothers and 23.2% to Arab mothers. In 2009, by comparison, 160,000 babies were born.
Meanwhile, the National Insurance Institute published its figures for 2018, showing that about 20% of Israelis, or 1,810,500 people, live in poverty, including over 840,000 minors.
