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Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics releases new data – Israel News

Israel's population is estimated at 9.915 million people, according to a report released on Wednesday by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics.

About 7.632 million of them are Jews (77%), and about 2.067 million are Arabs (20.8%). The annual population growth rate is 1.6%, compared to 2.2% in 2022.

Population

Among those surveyed, secular people make up the largest share of the population (43.5%). This is followed by non-religious traditionalists (18.9%), religious traditionalists (13%), religious (12.5%) and finally ultra-Orthodox (11.3%).

About 46,000 people made aliyah to Israel in 2023, compared to 74,400 last year. According to the report, around 55,000 Israelis emigrated abroad last year, while 27,800 returned to Israel.

Health

In the health sector, government spending last year amounted to 136.3 billion shekels (7.2% of GDP), compared to NIS 131.0 billion last year.

Shaare Zedek Hospital. (Source: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)

The average life expectancy is 81 years for men and 85.5 years for women.

The report also found that cancer is the leading cause of death in Israel, accounting for over 22% of all deaths.

Regarding smoking, about 18.2% of adults aged 20 and over smoke cigarettes daily and 22.2% smoke daily or occasionally.

Nearly half of adults ages 20 and older are overweight, obese, or severely obese.

Training

The state education budget this year was NIS 148.9 billion (8.0% of GDP), compared to NIS 138.9 billion last year.

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Israel currently has 1.960 million students enrolled in the education system, which has 210,300 teachers. The total number of students in the education system is expected to grow and reach approximately 2.769 million in the 2028/29 school year.

Nearly 300,000 students are enrolled in universities and colleges, where the average salary of faculty members is about 36,000 shekels.

With regard to the fight against crime, according to the office, government spending amounted to NIS 27.7 billion, accounting for 3.7% of total spending.

Police opened 303,000 criminal investigations (compared to 303,800 in 2022). In contrast, 1.075 million people were victims of crime (up from 887,600 in 2022).

About 42.7% of the cases initiated related to property crimes and 40.9% to public order crimes.

Among the victims, almost 600,000 were affected by online crimes, over 300,000 were threatened with violence, more than 200,000 were victims of sexual harassment and 24,000 people were confirmed to have been victims of sexual crimes. Only 3.3% were affected by theft.

Welfare

A total of 1.18 million Israelis are registered for various social services. Over a million Israeli residents have been recognized as people with disabilities.

Israel's consumer price index (CPI) rose 3.0% in 2023 after rising 5.3% in 2022.

Economy and tourism

There are 696,975 active companies, 55% of which have no employees. Last year around 62,200 stores opened and around 51,000 closed.

Last year, 3.2 million tourists entered Israel (compared to 2.9 million in 2022). In addition, it was found that the number of Israeli departures abroad was 9 million in 2023 (compared to 8.4 million in 2022).

The report found that domestic tourism experienced a significant decline. A total of around 6.6 million overnight trips within the country were registered. (compared to 9.4 million in 2022). Overnight stays by Israelis in tourist hotels reached 18.4 million (compared to 15.9 million in 2022), of which 4.7 million were overnight stays by evacuees from the conflict zones in the south and north.

transport

In the bus sector, revenue amounted to 1.9 billion shekels, with the average salary for employees in this sector being NIS 22,479. The railway recorded 62.5 million passengers last year (compared to 54.7 million in 2022), and the sector's turnover was NIS 0.6 billion.

There are over four million motor vehicles in Israel, of which more than 80% are privately owned.

Around 8,832 traffic accidents were recorded last year (compared to 10,404 in 2022), although there was an increase in the number of injured and seriously injured people.

Public debt amounted to NIS 1,134.5 billion, according to the office's data.

91.1% of Israelis surveyed said they are satisfied with their financial situation and believe it will continue to improve in the future. Almost 90% are satisfied with the area where they live, but only 40% are satisfied with public transport.



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