Population: 5,050,850 (July 1994 est.)
note: includes 110,500 Jewish settlers in the West Bank, 14,000 in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, 4,500 in the Gaza Strip, and 144,100 in East Jerusalem (1994 est.)

Population growth rate: 2.22% (1994 est.)

Birth rate: 20.55 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)

Death rate: 6.43 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)

Net migration rate: 8.04 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 8.6 deaths/1,000 live births (1994 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 77.96 years
male: 75.86 years
female: 80.16 years (1994 est.)

Total fertility rate: 2.83 children born/woman (1994 est.)

Nationality:
noun: Israeli(s)
adjective: Israeli

Ethnic divisions: Jewish 83%, non-Jewish 17% (mostly Arab)

Religions: Judaism 82%, Islam 14% (mostly Sunni Muslim), Christian 2%, Druze and other 2%

Languages: Hebrew (official), Arabic used officially for Arab minority, English most commonly used foreign language

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1983)
total population: 92%
male: 95%
female: 89%
Labor force: 1.9 million (1992)
by occupation: public services 29.3%, industry 22.1%, commerce 13.9%, finance and business 10.4%, personal and other services 7.4%, construction 6.5%, transport, storage, and communications 6.3%, agriculture, forestry, and fishing 3.5%, other 0.6% (1992)

NOTE: The information regarding Israel on this page is re-published from the 1995 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Israel People 1995 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Israel People 1995 should be addressed to the CIA.