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Statistics of the Month - April
Worldwide Jewish Population Statistic

Worldwide Jewish Population Statistics

April 21 is Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel and in celebration, April's statistics focus on the worldwide Jewish population today. Statistics about the Jewish population in the United States still remain somewhat ambiguous, as the US Census does not gather information about religious groups.

The worldwide Jewish population is 13.3 million Jews. Jewish population growth worldwide is close to zero percent. From 2000 to 2001, it rose 0.3 percent, compared to worldwide population growth of 1.4 percent.

In 2001, 8.3 million Jews lived in the Diaspora (outside of Israel) and 4.9 million lived in Israel. Just about half of the world's Jews reside in the Americas, with about 46 percent in North America.

Approximately 37 percent of the worldwide Jewish population lives in Israel. Israel's Jewish population rose by 1.6 percent the past year, while the Diaspora population dropped by 0.5 percent.

Europe, including the Asian territories of the Russian Republic and Turkey, accounts for about 12 percent of the total Jewish population. Fewer than 2 percent of the world's Jews live in Africa and Oceania.

Metropolitan Tel Aviv, with 2.5 million Jews, is the world's largest Jewish city. It is followed by New York (1.9 million), Haifa (655,000), Los Angeles (621,000), Jerusalem (570,000), and southeast Florida (514,000).

In 2001, 8 countries had a Jewish population of 100,000 or more; another 5 countries had 50,000 or more. There is not a single Diaspora country where Jews amounted to more than 2.5 percent of the total population. Only 3 Diaspora countries had more than 1 percent: Gibraltar (24.0 per 1000), United States (20.1 per 1000), and Canada (11.9 per 1000), France (8.8 per 1000), Uruguay (6.7 per 1000), Argentina (5.3 per 1000), Hungary (5.2 per 1000), and Australia (5.1 per 1000) had the next highest ratios.

Source: World Jewish Population

Disclaimer: Although we try to use the most credible sources, we are not responsible for any incorrect findings.

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