The Central Bureau of Statistics published this week its final demographic figures ahead of the upcoming Jewish new year.
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According to the report, Israel currently has 9,593,000 residents, with that number expected to cross 10 million at the end of 2024 and 15 million at the end of 2048. Israel's population will have essentially doubled by the end of 2065, the report says.
A breakdown of the population according to ethnicities shows that 7,069,000 are Jews or roughly 74%. Some 2 million are Arabs (comprising some 21%) while about half a million residents (some 5%) have a different ethnic background.
Some 177,000 new babies were born in the Jewish year 5782 (which ends Sunday night), while 53,000 people passed away, including 4,400 from complications of the coronavirus.
The war in Ukraine has impacted Israel's overall immigration figures significantly. Net immigration for the past 12 months stands at 63,000, including 59,000 who qualify as Olim, with about 40,000 of those making aliyah from Ukraine.
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