January 1, 2019
THAT'S AWKWARD:
More than 13 million Palestinians in the world by end of 2018 (Middle East Monitor, January 1, 2019)
The projected number of Palestinians in the world is 13.05 million, of whom 4.91 million are in the State of Palestine, 1.57 million in Israel, 5.85 million in Arab countries and around 717,000 in foreign countries, Ola Awad, President of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said on Monday in a brief on the status of the Palestinian people at the end of 2018. [...]The total fertility rate declined during (2011-2013) to 4.1 births (compared to 5.9 births in 1999). In Gaza Strip, the rate was 4.5 births compared to 3.7 births in the West Bank during 2011-2013.
Israel's population nears 9 million on eve of 2019 (STUART WINER, 31 December 2018, Times Of Israel)
Of that number, 6,668,000 (74.3%) are Jews, 1,878,000 are Arabs (20.9%) and 426,000 (4.8%) are other.
Posted by Orrin Judd at January 1, 2019 6:57 PM