How Big Is Israel’s Haredi Population Expected to Get?
The Central Bureau of Statistics projection puts Haredi society at 22% of Israel in 2045 and 32% in 2065, from 12.3% at the end of 2022.
3.2 million Haredim, 22% of Israel’s population, is the 2045 figure the Central Bureau of Statistics puts on Haredi society, in a projection the State Comptroller of Israel published in a follow-up audit in May 2025. The same projection carries a second horizon, 6.4 million and 32% in 2065. Its measured starting point is the end of 2022, when the State Comptroller recorded Haredi society at 12.3% of Israel’s population.
| Figure | What it counts | Who published it | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 million (22%) | Projected Haredi population and its share of Israel’s population | Central Bureau of Statistics projection, relayed by the State Comptroller | 2045 |
| 6.4 million (32%) | Projected Haredi population and its share of Israel’s population | Central Bureau of Statistics projection, relayed by the State Comptroller | 2065 |
| 12.3% | Measured Haredi share of Israel’s population, the projection’s baseline | State Comptroller of Israel, on Bureau data | End of 2022 |
| 10.244 million | Total resident population of Israel, preliminary estimate | Central Bureau of Statistics | Eve of the 78th Independence Day, April 2026 |
| About 446,000 (about 30%) | Haredi pupils, and their share of the Hebrew education system | State Comptroller of Israel, audit of the Ministry of Education | School year 5779, 2018/19 |
The Bureau projects 3.2 million Haredim, 22% of Israel, by 2045
The Central Bureau of Statistics puts Haredi society at 22% of Israel’s population, 3.2 million people, in 2045. The State Comptroller of Israel relayed that projection in its May 2025 follow-up audit on the accessibility of higher education to Haredi society, which opens on the sector’s size before turning to its subject. The 3.2 million is a projected figure and not a count of anyone.
- The projecting body is the Central Bureau of Statistics; the audit is the document that carries the figure.
- The share and the head count travel together, both attached to 2045.
- The audit prints no national population total for 2045, so the total implied by dividing the two is not a published figure.
The projection runs to 2065, at 6.4 million and 32%
The Central Bureau of Statistics puts Haredi society at 32% of Israel’s population, 6.4 million people, in 2065, again as relayed by the State Comptroller of Israel in the May 2025 audit. 2045 and 2065 are the only two forward horizons this record carries. Both are projections, and the audit attaches no interval or variant to either.
Haredi society was 12.3% of Israel’s population at end-2022
The State Comptroller of Israel recorded Haredi society at 12.3% of Israel’s population at the end of 2022, and that end-2022 share is the baseline the 22% and the 32% run from. The Central Bureau of Statistics separately estimated Israel’s total resident population at 10.244 million on the eve of the 78th Independence Day in April 2026, a preliminary figure based on the 2022 census. The two figures belong to different years and to different releases, so no Haredi head count for 2026 follows from putting them together. The Bureau’s population estimates and what they include are published separately.
| Figure | What it counts | Who published it | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.3% | Haredi share of Israel’s population | State Comptroller of Israel | End of 2022 |
| 10.244 million | Total resident population, preliminary | Central Bureau of Statistics | April 2026 |
| 296,000 (2.9%) | Foreigners, counted in the total and outside the named groups | Central Bureau of Statistics | End of 2025 |
446,000 Haredi pupils were about 30% of Hebrew education in 2018/19
The State Comptroller of Israel reported about 446,000 Haredi pupils in school year 5779, 2018/19, about 30% of the Hebrew education system, in its 2020 audit of the Ministry of Education’s supervision of Haredi education. Those counts are of pupils in institutions the Ministry supervises, on the Ministry’s own registers as examined by the audit, and they are not a share of the population. The same audit records that 56% of pupils in Haredi primary institutions studied the core curriculum.
| Figure | What it counts | Period |
|---|---|---|
| About 446,000 | Haredi pupils in supervised institutions | School year 5779, 2018/19 |
| About 30% | Their share of the Hebrew education system | School year 5779, 2018/19 |
| 6,664 | Institutions supervised, by 84 inspectors | At the audit |
Source: State Comptroller of Israel, Annual Report 70b, 2020.
No Israeli body here publishes a 2033 Haredi milestone figure
The State Comptroller’s May 2025 audit carries the end-2022 baseline and the 2045 and 2065 projection points, and nothing between them. No Israeli official publication used on this page states a 2 million Haredi total, a 2030 or 2033 milestone, a Haredi fertility rate, or a projected Haredi share of Israeli Jews.
- No intermediate year between 2022 and 2045 appears in the record used here.
- No Haredi head count for 2025 or 2026 appears in it.
- No age structure of the Haredi population appears in it.
Which figures here are measured and which are projected?
The 12.3% share and the education counts are measured figures for stated past periods. The 22% and 3.2 million for 2045, and the 32% and 6.4 million for 2065, are Central Bureau of Statistics projections carried by the State Comptroller, and are labelled as such wherever they appear. The 446,000 pupils count belongs to the Hebrew education system and is not a population share, so it may not be set against the 12.3%. Israel’s 10.244 million total is preliminary and dated April 2026, while the Haredi baseline is dated end-2022, so the two do not multiply into a current Haredi head count.
Questions readers ask
How many Haredim does Israel project for 2045?
The Central Bureau of Statistics puts the figure at 3.2 million, 22% of Israel’s population, in a projection the State Comptroller of Israel published in May 2025.
What is the furthest year in the projection?
- The Central Bureau of Statistics puts Haredi society at 6.4 million, 32% of Israel’s population, in that year.
What share is Haredi society now?
The State Comptroller of Israel recorded 12.3% at the end of 2022, which is the most recent measured share in the record used here.
Is a 2 million Haredi figure published by an Israeli body?
Not in the record used here. The State Comptroller’s 2025 audit states the end-2022 share and the 2045 and 2065 projection points only.
What is Israel’s total population?
The Central Bureau of Statistics estimated 10.244 million on the eve of the 78th Independence Day in April 2026, a preliminary figure.
Does the audit give a Haredi fertility rate?
No. The State Comptroller’s 2025 audit publishes no fertility figure for Haredi society.
Who produced the projection?
The Central Bureau of Statistics produced it. The State Comptroller of Israel relayed it in an audit whose subject is access to higher education.
How many Haredi pupils are there?
The State Comptroller of Israel reported about 446,000 in school year 5779, 2018/19, about 30% of the Hebrew education system.
Does the record show Haredi employment rates?
Yes. The State Comptroller of Israel reported that about 53% of working-age Haredi men were employed, 101,800 of 190,400, at the end of the second quarter of 2024, against about 87% of non-Haredi Jewish men, 1,314,600 of 1,514,700.
And for Haredi women?
The State Comptroller of Israel reported about 80% employed, 150,100 of 187,400, against about 83% of non-Haredi Jewish women, 1,275,000 of 1,544,100, at the end of the second quarter of 2024.
Can a national population for 2045 be worked out from the projection?
The audit publishes no such total, so any national figure derived by dividing 3.2 million by 22% is arithmetic the source did not perform.
Which body supervises Haredi schools?
The Ministry of Education. The State Comptroller of Israel audited that supervision in 2020 and recorded 6,664 institutions supervised by 84 inspectors.
Sources
- Central Bureau of Statistics, 2026. Israel’s Independence Day 2026. Media release 11_26_117e. https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/DocLib/2026/117/11_26_117e.pdf. Official or primary record.
- State Comptroller of Israel, 2020. The Ministry of Education: Haredi Education and Its Supervision. Annual Report 70b, chapter 210. library.mevaker.gov.il. Official or primary record.
- State Comptroller of Israel, 2025. Accessibility of Higher Education to Haredi Society, Follow-up Audit. Report 75c, May 2025. library.mevaker.gov.il. Official or primary record.
