(Middle East Quarterly) Yakov Faitelson - Arab and Jewish natural increase rates are reaching a convergence point. While the natural increase rate for Israeli Jews rose by 41.6% from 1995 to 2012, the Arab natural increase rate declined during the same time by 30.6%, with the rate in 2012 at its lowest level since 1955. Arab birth rates declined from 36.4 births per 1,000 in 1998 to 24.7 births in 2012.
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