As Israel marks International Women's Day, its female population is 4,677,700 strong, data released on Sunday, said. Around 27% of Israel's female population are aged 0 to 14, 60% are aged 15 to 64, and around 13% are aged 65 and over, according to data released ahead of International Women's Day.
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According to the survey's findings, 50.4% of Jewish women aged 25 to 29 were married, compared to 73% of Arab women in the same age group by the end of 2018. In 2008, 53.8% of Jewish and other women and 80.7% of Arab women were married.
Among women aged 45 to 49, 10% of Jewish and other women were single compared to 11.5% of Arab women. In 2008, 6.3% of Jewish and other women and 11.3% of Arab women were married.
According to data released from the Central Bureau of Statistics, the female divorce rate is higher than the male divorce rate across all age ranges. This stems mainly from men's tendency to quickly remarry following a divorce. So, for example, at the end of 2018, 8% of women aged 35 to 39 were divorced compared to 5% of men in the same age group. Among 40- to 44-year-olds, 12.4% of women are divorced compared to 8% of men. Among 45- to 49-year-olds, 16.4% of women are divorced compared to 11.4% of men, and among 50- to 54-year-olds, 18.4% of women and 13.7% of men are divorced.
Women aged 65 and over make up 13.2% of the country's population, compared to 10.7% for men. This is largely due to women's longer lifespan.
Around 89%, or 44,051, of the 49,410 women who married in 2018 did so for the first time.
In 2018, 15,605 women got a divorce. Their average age at the time of divorce was 39.3 compared to 38.1 in 2008.
At the same time, Israel's birthrate remains relatively high, with the average woman expected to have 3.01 children, the highest number among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member-states, where the average is 1.6.
Around 177,500 women gave birth in 2019. Twenty-eight percent of those women gave birth to their first child, 26.1% delivered their second child, and 54.2% gave birth to what was at least their third child.
The average age of women who had their first child in 2019 increased from 25.7 in the early 200s to 27.7 by 2019. At 6.1%, twice as many babies were born to single women in 2019 as compared to 2000.
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