At the end of the civil year 2022 and at the beginning of 2023, approximately 9.656 million inhabitants live in Israel, according to the estimates of the Central Bureau of Statistics published today (Thursday).
In the country there are 7.106 million Jewish residents (73.6% of the total population), 2.037 million Arabs (21.1%) and 513 thousand others (5.3%).
During the year 2022, about 204 thousand people were added to Israel's population, a growth rate of 2.2%.
Most of the increase (62%) resulted from natural multiplication and the rest (38%) - from the balance of international migration.
During the year 2022, about 178 thousand babies were added to the population - 74.8% to Jewish mothers, 23.8% to Arab mothers and 1.4% to others.
This year, about 73 thousand new immigrants immigrated to Israel (compared to about 25 thousand immigrants last year).
About 51.7 thousand deceased residents were subtracted from the population.
The number of deceased is similar to the number in 2021 and higher than the number in 2020 (48.8 thousand), the year in which the corona epidemic broke out.
New immigrants in Israel (archive - those photographed have no relation to the news). A record year, photo: Yossi Zeliger
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The Arab population is growing, photo: Michel Dot Kom
A newborn baby, photo: Gettyimages
In 2019, the number was 46 thousand deaths (not including deaths of Israelis abroad). The rate of deaths relative to the size of the population increased from 5.1 (per 1,000) residents in 2019 to 5.4 (per 1,000 residents) in 2022. According According to the data of the Ministry of Health, in 2022 until the middle of December, about 3,670 residents died from the corona virus (a total of about 11,850 residents died from the virus during the plague outbreak).
About four thousand Israelis who had been abroad for more than a year were also subtracted from the count.
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