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Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-says-worlds-jewry-still-2-million-shy-of-1939-numbers/
World Jewish Population Has Still Not Recovered from the Holocaust
(Times of Israel) Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics announced Tuesday that world Jewry numbers 14,511,000 people, some two million fewer than the 16.6 million Jews in the world in 1939 on the eve of the Nazi Holocaust. In 2018 there are 6.45 million Jews living in Israel and 5.7 million in the U.S.