How Many People Does Israel Count in the West Bank? 504,700 in Israeli Localities
Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics counts 504,700 people in the West Bank’s Israeli localities, preliminary, at 31 December 2023.
What the Central Bureau of Statistics counts: population by group, births, fertility, immigration and world Jewish population.
Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics counts 504,700 people in the West Bank’s Israeli localities, preliminary, at 31 December 2023.
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The Central Bureau of Statistics counted more than 1 million Jerusalem residents at the end of 2023, with the city’s group and growth figures.
The Central Bureau of Statistics counted 168,800 residents of Ethiopian origin at the end of 2022, and defines who is in that count.
Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics counted 1.707 million Moslems at the end of 2021, 18.1% of all residents, with growth, fertility and Jerusalem figures.
The Central Bureau of Statistics estimated approximately 152,000 Druze in Israel in February 2024, and counts them inside its Arabs group.
More than 3.5 million immigrants have arrived in Israel since 1948, about 1.68 million of them from 1990 onward, on the Bureau’s April 2026 figures.
Approximately 184,200 Christians were living in Israel in December 2025, about 1.9% of the population, on the Central Bureau of Statistics’ estimate.
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