As Israel prepares to celebrate its 72nd Independence Day, the Central Bureau of Statistics published Monday the latest numbers on the nation's population.
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The Jewish state is home to 9,327,000 people, among them 6.894 million Jews (73.9% of the population), 1.966 million Arabs (21.1%), and 467,000 citizens of other ethnicities (5%).
Population growth projections indicate that in 2030, Israel's population will stand at 11.1 million, and in 2040, 13.2 million. By the time Israel marks its 100th Independence Day in 2048, its population is projected to be 15.2 million.
Since Independence Day last year, the country's population has increased by 137,000, or 1.5%. A total of 167,000 babies were born; 16,300 new immigrants arrived; and 50,000 Israelis died.
The state has a young population with 28.1% of Israelis between the age of 0-14 and only 12% over 65.
CBS data shows that at the end of 2019, 46% of Jews in the world lived in Israel, and that 78% of the Jews in Israel were born in the country.
When the state was founded, its population stood at 806,000, when 82.1% of the population was Jewish, and 17.9% was Arab. Since 1948, 3.3 million immigrants have arrived, 44.7% of whom made aliyah in 1990 or the years that followed.
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