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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.786140
Israel's Population Hits 8.7 Million on Eve of 69th Independence Day
(Ha'aretz) Ofer Aderet - Israel's population is 8.68 million - more than 10 times what it was when the state was founded in 1948, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced Thursday. Some 74.7% (6.484 million) are Jewish, 20.8% (1.808 million) are Arab - both Muslim and Christian - while the remaining 4.5% (388,000) are non-Arab Christians, members of other religions or people of no religion. There are also 183,000 foreign nationals living in Israel. In the past year, 174,000 babies were born in Israel and 30,000 people immigrated to the country. As of 2015 there were an estimated 14.41 million Jews in the world, 43% of whom lived in Israel.