For 2008

According to the Central Statistical Bureau of Israel, published population growth rate December 29, 2013, the total population of Israel is 8,132,000. Inhabitants. Among them: 6,102,000. (75.2%) - the Jews; 1682000. (20.6%) - the Arabs; population growth rate 348 thousand. (4.2%) - the national minorities (Druze, Circassians, Armenians, and others.), As well as residents that do not fall under the definition of Jewish State of Israel.
It is also reported that in 2013 in Israel, 175,000 children were born. The number of immigrants population growth rate who arrived in Israel in the outflowing totaled 16,600 people. For 2013 the population increased by 1.8%.
Israel's population by county in 2011 was distributed as follows: Central District 24.2%, 11.8% Haifa District, Northern District of 16.6%, 12.4% Jerusalem District Tel Aviv District 16.5% Southern District 14.3%, Judea and Samaria (West Bank) - 4.2%.
Distribution of the Arab and Jewish populations in the districts: population growth rate Jews Arabs Central District 28.2% 9.7% Tel Aviv District 20.5% 1.1% 10.9% Haifa District Jerusalem District 14.5% 11% 18.8% Northern District 9.7% 43.1% 14.3% Southern District 12.8% of Judea and Samaria 5.4%
In 2011, the population of Israel grew by 1.8%. The population growth rate higher than the average observed in Jerusalem (2.5%) and Central Regions (2.1%), while at the Tel Aviv District minimal increase - 0.8%.
Some Jewish settlements, such as Hebron and Gush Etzion, existed before the formation of the state and was re-populated by Jews after the Six Day War (1967). The total number of Israeli settlers population growth rate more than 510 thous. People (about population growth rate 6.5% of the Israeli population). 7,800 people lived in Gaza before their forced eviction in 2005 18 thousand. Israelis live in the Golan Heights. 187 thousand. People in 2010 lived in East Jerusalem.
Russian Jews played an important role in the Zionist movement and the creation of Israel, and after 1970 took a significant part in the development of science and economy population growth rate of Israel. Today, Russian-speaking Jews constitute 20% of Israel's Jewish population and 15% of the total population. History of the population
According to statistics, the first census of the population in Israel in 1948 showed the following numerical indicators of population: Total: 872.7 thousand Jews: 716.7 thousand people (82.12% of the population) Arabs: 156,000 people (17.88% of the population)
Of all immigrants in 2011, 43% came from the former Soviet Union - mostly from Russia (3,678 people) and Ukraine (2051 people), 16% came from Ethiopia and 14% came from the United States, the largest number of whom settled in Jerusalem. The median age of the immigrant in 2011 - 29 years. Jews
Number of immigrants by country (immigrants and their children): Asia: 691.8 thousand Iraq: 234.1 thousand Iran: 141.4 thousand Yemen 138.6 thousand Turkey: 77.7 thousand India and Pakistan: 46.7 thousand Syria and Lebanon: 35.5 thousand others: Africa: 890.8 thousand Morocco: 492.2 thousand Algeria and Tunisia: 134.4 thousand Ethiopia: population growth rate 115 thousand Libya: 68.8 thousand Egypt: 57 thousand others: Europe, America and Oceania: 1,930 million of the USSR: 893.1 thousand Romania: 212 thousand Poland: 199.8 thousand North America and Oceania: 160.7 thousand France: 70.4 thousand other: Approximately population growth rate 1.15 million - came from the former SSSR.Russkoyazychnye Israelis
In some cities the number of immigrants from the former Soviet Union who settled in Israel after 1990, such as Ashdod, Beersheba, Karmiel is more than 1/3 of the population, and in Sderot nearly of the population of the city. The "extended Jewish population"
Israeli demographers release also such a thing as "extended Jewish population." In this concept to other countries are all members of families in which at least one person is included in the "core" of the Jewish population growth rate population.
For 2008 "extended Jewish population" was about 80% of the population, including, but not actually Jews and people of other ethnic origins (mainly this Russian, Ukrainians and people from other former Soviet republics), married to Jews, as well as children and grandchildren of such marriages are not always the Jews according to the Jewish canon law Halacha. Arabs
These include: the Muslims (1,354,000, about 82%), the vast majority - Sunni; Bedouins (270 thousand. people), living mainly in the south of Israel in the Negev (200 thousand.) and the north (70 thous.), Christian Arabs (125 thousand. people) living in the north of the country, population growth rate as well as in the cities of Haifa, Jerusalem and Jaffa.
The biggest ethnic and religious group of Israel's Arab population are Sunni Arabs (about population growth rate 800 thousand. People) who live in the north of Israel, in its central part, and the cities of Haifa, Lod, Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Jerusalem. Other groups of non-Jewish population
In the north, there are two villages - Kfar Kama and Rehaniya population growth rate densely populated by about 3 thousand Circassians, the descendants of Muhajirs after the Caucasian War, preserving life in one of the western dialects Circassian language.
In September 2012, the population of Israel was 7,933,200 inhabitants, 9.1 times more