Population

People

  1980 1990 2003
Population 3,921,700 4,821,700 6,748,100
Civilian labor force 1,318,100 1,649,900 2,546,700
Jews in Israel, as a percentage of world Jewry 25 30 39
Life expectancy
   Females
   Males

75.7
72.1

78.4
75.7

81.2
77.3
Infant mortality
(per 1000 live births)
15.6 9.9 5.3
School population 1,200,700 1,451,300 1,974,400
Percentage of the population (15+) with 13 years or more of formal schooling 19.2 25.3 38.5
Population by Religion
Jews 77.0%
Muslims 15.5%
Christians 2.1%
Druze 1.6%
Not classified by religion 3.6%
  Population Distribution
Urban localities 91.6%
Rural localities 8.4%
  Of which:
   Moshavim
   Kibbutzim

3.1%
1.7%
Immigrants by Continent
1948-2002
Europe 1,766,600
Africa 482,650
Asia 419,900
America & Oceania 226,900
Unknown 31,550
  Immigrants by Year of Immigration
1948-1951 688,000
1952-1959 272,000
1960-1969 374,000
1970-1979 346,000
1980-1989 154,000
1990-2002 1,093,650