In 2023, the population of Muslims in Israel was estimated at 1.77 million. This marked an increase of 2 percent compared to the previous year. The Muslim community in the country formed the largest religious minority in the country.

In 2023, Jerusalem was the city with the largest population of Muslim residents in Israel, reaching 379,600 people. This represented about 38 percent of the city's total population. The town with the second-highest number of Muslims was Rahat, with 78,500 members of the religion. Rahat is a predominantly Bedouin city in southern Israel. Umm al-Fahm and Nazareth, both located in northern Israel, make up a sizeable portion of the Muslim community in Israel.

At the end of 2023, the population of Israel reached almost 9.7 million permanent residents. Jewish residents formed the largest religious group, with just over 7.15 million people. The Muslim population in the country, formed the largest religious minority at over 1.7 million individuals. Conversely, the smallest religious group was that of the Druze with about 151,000 people.

Jews were the dominant religious group in the Israel-Palestine region at the beginning of the first millennia CE, and are the dominant religious group there today, however, there was a period of almost 2,000 years where most of the world's Jews were displaced from their spiritual homeland. Antiquity to the 20th century Jewish hegemony in the region began changing after a series of revolts against Roman rule led to mass expulsions and emigration. Roman control saw severe persecution of Jewish and Christian populations, but this changed when the Byzantine Empire adopted Christianity as its official religion in the 4th century. Christianity then dominated until the 7th century, when the Rashidun Caliphate (the first to succeed Muhammad) took control of the Levant. Control of region split between Christians and Muslims intermittently between the 11th and 13th centuries during the Crusades, although the population remained overwhelmingly Muslim. Zionism until today Through the Paris Peace Conference, the British took control of Palestine in 1920. The Jewish population began growing through the Zionist Movement after the 1880s, which sought to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. Rising anti-Semitism in Europe accelerated this in the interwar period, and in the aftermath of the Holocaust, many European Jews chose to leave the continent. The United Nations tried facilitating the foundation of separate Jewish and Arab states, yet neither side was willing to concede territory, leading to a civil war and a joint invasion from seven Arab states. Yet the Jews maintained control of their territory and took large parts of the proposed Arab territory, forming the Jewish-majority state of Israel in 1948, and acheiving a ceasefire the following year. Over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced as a result of this conflict, while most Jews from the Arab eventually fled to Israel. Since this time, Israel has become one of the richest and advanced countries in the world, however, Palestine has been under Israeli military occupation since the 1960s and there are large disparities in living standards between the two regions.

Israel Population: 2022 Census: excl Foreign Workers: Avg: Arabs data was reported at 2,103.700 Person th in Jan 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 2,102.600 Person th for Dec 2024. Israel Population: 2022 Census: excl Foreign Workers: Avg: Arabs data is updated monthly, averaging 2,068.700 Person th from Jan 2023 (Median) to Jan 2025, with 25 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2,103.700 Person th in Jan 2025 and a record low of 2,032.100 Person th in Jan 2023. Israel Population: 2022 Census: excl Foreign Workers: Avg: Arabs data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Israel – Table IL.G001: Population.

Israel Population: 2008 Census: excl Foreign Workers: End Period: Arabs data was reported at 1,871.600 Person th in Oct 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 1,868.000 Person th for Sep 2018. Israel Population: 2008 Census: excl Foreign Workers: End Period: Arabs data is updated monthly, averaging 1,681.750 Person th from Jan 2009 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 118 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,871.600 Person th in Oct 2018 and a record low of 1,502.600 Person th in Jan 2009. Israel Population: 2008 Census: excl Foreign Workers: End Period: Arabs data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Israel – Table IL.G001: Population.

As of 2024, the population of Israel reached about 9.8 million permanent residents in total. About 7.7 million were registered as Jews or other non-Arab populations. Furthermore, some 2.1 million Arabs lived in the country.

Israel Population: 2022 Census: excl Foreign Workers: End Period: Arabs data was reported at 2,103.200 Person th in Jan 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2,104.100 Person th for Dec 2024. Israel Population: 2022 Census: excl Foreign Workers: End Period: Arabs data is updated monthly, averaging 2,070.200 Person th from Jan 2023 (Median) to Jan 2025, with 25 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2,104.100 Person th in Dec 2024 and a record low of 2,033.500 Person th in Jan 2023. Israel Population: 2022 Census: excl Foreign Workers: End Period: Arabs data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Israel – Table IL.G001: Population.

In 1995, Israel had a Jewish population of approximately 4.5 million people, of whom approximately 1.75 million were born abroad. Over one million of these immigrants were born in Europe, with over 650,000 of these born in the former Soviet Union. Despite Poland having the largest Jewish population in the world in the pre-WWII years, the number of Polish Jewish migrants and descendents in Israel was relatively small in 1995 when compared to the USSR due to the impact of the Holocaust.

Outside of Europe, Morocco had the largest number of Jewish immigrants and descendents in Israel by 1995. Morocco had the largest Jewish population in the Muslim world when Israel was founded in 1948, with over 250,000 people. Many Moroccan Jews sought to emigrate to Israel at this time, but often faced resistance from authorities and local populations who believed the Jews would join in the fight against the Arab forces seeking to establish a Muslim state in Palestine. The government of Morocco then officially prohibited emigration to Israel after gaining independence from France in 1956, however this policy was reversed in 1961 whereby the Moroccan government began facilitating Jewish emigration to Israel in return for payments from Jewish organizations in the U.S. and Israel. By the 1970s, Morocco's Jewish population had fallen to less than 15 percent of its size in 1948.

In 2023, among secular Muslim families in Israel, almost 61 percent consisted of couples with children under the age of 17. Additionally, 10.6 percent of these non-religious families had adult children. Among traditional families, 62.2 percent were couples with younger children and 16.5 percent did not have children. Similarly, in religious Muslim families, 51.8 percent were couples with children under the age of 17, and 16.4 percent were childless.

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The Religion and State (RAS) project is a university-based project located at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. The general goal is to provide detailed codings on several aspects of separation of religion and state for 183 states on a yearly basis between 1990 and 2014. This constitutes all countries with populations of 250,000 or more, as well as a sampling of countries with lower populations.

This module recodes the governmental and societal discrimination variables used in the Religion and State, Round 3 except that it uses a minority group within a state as the unit of analysis. For example, in the UK, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Orthodox Christians, and Sikhs are all coded separately. The dataset includes all minorities which are at least 0.2% of the population as well as the following categories of minorities regardless of their population size: (1) Christians in Muslim countries, (2) Muslims in Christian countries, and (3) Jews in Christian-majority and Muslim-majority countries, where present.

Israel's population is aging steadily, with the median age projected to rise from 29 years in 2020 to 32 years by 2050. This demographic shift reflects global trends of increasing life expectancy and declining birth rates, though Israel maintained a relatively young population compared to many developed nations. The country's unique religious and cultural makeup contributed to regional variations in age distribution, presenting both opportunities and challenges for policymakers. Which region has the oldest population? As of 2023, over a quarter of Israelis were under the age of 14 years. The largest age group in the country being four-year olds and below. Interestingly, significant regional differences existed within the country when it came to age distribution and aging. While the median age in the Jerusalem district was below 24, Tel Aviv was the oldest region with an average age of over 34 years, highlighting significant demographic variations across different areas. How does religion influence demographics? Religious affiliation played a role in Israel's age structure and demographics. Muslims are the youngest religious group with a median age of 24 years, while Christians of Arab ethnicity are the oldest, at 35 years. Jews, the largest religious-ethnic group, had a median age of almost 32 years, but within the Jewish demographic, age and fertility varied greatly between people based on religiosity. These differences play a significant role in the country's population and future growth patterns.

According to a 2023 survey, over 43 percent of Jews in Israel were secular, while 11.3 identified as ultra-orthodox. On the other hand, less than ten percent of Muslims in Israel were non-religious, and almost 64 percent identified as religious.

In 2021, 57 percent of the Muslim population aged 15 and over held the marital status of married. On the other hand, 37 percent of the community members were registered as single. Divorced and widowed people each accounted for three percent of the population.

人口：2022 Census：不包括外籍工人：平均：阿拉伯人在12-01-2024达2,102.600千人，相较于11-01-2024的2,099.600千人有所增长。人口：2022 Census：不包括外籍工人：平均：阿拉伯人数据按月更新，01-01-2023至12-01-2024期间平均值为2,067.300千人，共24份观测结果。该数据的历史最高值出现于12-01-2024，达2,102.600千人，而历史最低值则出现于01-01-2023，为2,032.100千人。CEIC提供的人口：2022 Census：不包括外籍工人：平均：阿拉伯人数据处于定期更新的状态，数据来源于הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה，数据归类于全球数据库的以色列 – Table IL.G001: Population。

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In 2021, the divorce rate among members of the Muslim population in Israel between the ages of 45 and 49 was the highest among the age groups, at 11.3 percent, followed closely by the 50-54 age group in the community, at 11.1 percent. Overall, more than half of all divorcees among the Muslim population in Israel were 35 years of age or older.

人口：2008年人口普查：不包括外籍工人：期末：阿拉伯人在10-01-2018达1,871.600千人，相较于09-01-2018的1,868.000千人有所增长。人口：2008年人口普查：不包括外籍工人：期末：阿拉伯人数据按月更新，01-01-2009至10-01-2018期间平均值为1,681.750千人，共118份观测结果。该数据的历史最高值出现于10-01-2018，达1,871.600千人，而历史最低值则出现于01-01-2009，为1,502.600千人。CEIC提供的人口：2008年人口普查：不包括外籍工人：期末：阿拉伯人数据处于定期更新的状态，数据来源于Central Bureau of Statistics，数据归类于Global Database的以色列 – 表 IL.G001：人口。

As of 2023, the youngest population group by religion in Israel were Muslims, with a median age of 24 years. On the other hand, the religious group was that of Christians of Arab ethnicity, at 35 years. The median age among Jews, the most populous group in the country, was 31.6.