Demographics of the Palestinian territories

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The Palestinian territories include the West Bank and the Gaza strip.

2,535,927 [1]

In addition, included are some 267,163 Israeli settlers in the West Bank and more than 200,000 in East Jerusalem (July 2004 estimate.)

0-14 years: 42.4% (male 551,243/female 524,800) 15-64 years: 54.2% (male 704,209/female 670,382) 65 years and over: 3.4% (male 36,175/female 49,118) (2007 est.) [2]

2.985% (2007 est.) [3]

30.99 births/1,000 population (2007 est.)

3.85 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.)

2.71 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)

at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.05 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.736 male(s)/female total population: 1.038 male(s)/female (2007 est.

total: 18.67 deaths/1,000 live births male: 20.59 deaths/1,000 live births female: 16.64 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.)

total population: 73.46 years male: 71.68 years female: 75.35 years (2007 est.)

4.17 children born/woman (2007 est.)

noun: Palestinians
adjective: Palestinian

Palestinian Arab and other (Kurd, Sharkasian, Armenian) 83%, Jewish 17% (Except for a small minority of Samaritan Jews near Nablus; most of the Jews in the Palestinian territories are Israeli citizens)

Muslim 75% (predominantly Sunni), Jewish 17%, Christian and other 8% (if excluding non citizens of the Palestinian Authority: Muslim 90.1%, Christian 9.8%, Jewish 0.1%)

Arabic, Hebrew (spoken by Israeli settlers and many Palestinians), English (widely understood)

definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 91.9% male: 96.3% female: 87.4% (2003 est.)

1,482,405 [4]

0-14 years: 48.1% (male 351,642; female 335,060)
15-64 years: 49.4% (male 360,147; female 345,318)
65 years and over: 2.6% (male 15,231; female 21,359) (2006 est.)

3.71% (2006 est.; see also: Demographic trap)

39.45 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)

3.8 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)

1.48 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)

at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.71 male(s)/female
total population: 1.04 male(s)/female (2006 est.)

total population: 22.4/1,000 live births
male: 23.48/1,000 live births
female: 21.27/1,000 live births (2006 est.)

total population: 71.97 years
male: 70.67 years
female: 73.34 years (2006 est.)

5.79 children born/woman (2006 est.)

noun: Palestinians
adjective: Palestinian

Palestinian Arab and other 99.4%, Jewish 0.6%

Muslim 98.7% (predominantly Sunni), Christian 0.7%, Jewish 0.6%

Arabic, Hebrew (spoken by many Palestinians), English (widely understood)

definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 91.9%
male: 96.3%
female: 87.4% (2003 est.)

New Study "Arab Population In the West Bank and Gaza: The Million Person Gap" suggests the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics seriously overestimated the growth of the Palestinian population and has double-counted certain populations when it made its original predictions in 1997. All further estimates were based on the 1997 predictions it:

double-counted the Jerusalem Arabs - thus adding 210,000
assumed immigration into the territories, while there has in fact been steady migration - thus adding 310,000
counted residents living abroad - thus adding 325,000
overestimated the birth rate

Since the publication of the study, the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics has revised its population estimates down by 750,000 as a result of immigration exaggerations. [5]