The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics released its annual report on the population of Israel at the beginning of Iyar, before Israel Independence Day on 5 Iyar.
Accordint to the CBS, the population of Israel was 10.244 million, including 7.790 million Jews and Others (76%), 2.157 million Arabs (21.1%) and 296,000 Foreigners (2.9%).
In the past year, Israel's population has grown by 146,000 (an increase of 1.4%). Of this, the number of Israelis grew by 110,000 (an increase of 1.1%) and the number of foreigners grew by about 36,000. About 177,000 infants were born, about 21,000 immigrants arrived, about 48,000 persons died.
In 1948, at the time of the establishment of the State of Israel, the population was 806,000. Today, the population is more than 12.5 times the amount at that time.
Over 3.5 million immigrants have arrived in Israel. Of these, about 1.68 million (47.8%) have arrived since 1990. Since 1970, about 158,000 immigrating citizens have also settled in the country.
About 81% of the Jews in Israel are Sabras (born in Israel).
The population of Israel is young: About 27% are children aged 0-14. Only about 13% are aged 65 or over.
