Towards Holocaust Remembrance Day: At the end of 2019, the number of Jews in the world stood at 14.8 million - the same number as the world's Jewish population in 1925.
This is according to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics.
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Approximately 6.8 million of the world's Jews live in Israel today - 461% of all world Jewry. 5.3 million of them are 'sabra' born in Israel and approximately 1.5 million were born abroad.
One million were born in Europe and America, 289 thousand were born in Africa, and 159 thousand were born in Asia.
Following Israel on the list is the United States with 5.7 million Jews.
Further down the list:
• 448 thousand Jews in France
• 393 thousand Jews in Canada
• 292 thousand Jews in the United Kingdom
• 180 thousand Jews in Argentina
• 155 thousand Jews in Russia
• 118 thousand Jews in Germany
• 118 thousand Jews in Australia
In 1939, on the eve of World War II, the number of Jews in the world was 16.6 million. About 3 percent of them, 449,000, lived in Israel at the time.
In 1948, on the eve of the establishment of the state, the number of Jews in the world was about 11.5 million, of whom about 650,000 lived in Israel - about 61% of the population.
At the end of 2020, the number of people living in Israel recognized by the Holocaust Survivors' Rights Authority was approximately 180,000 people.
In preparation for Holocaust Remembrance and Heroism Day 2011, the Holocaust Survivors' Rights Authority today published data indicating that approximately 174,500 Holocaust survivors and victims of anti-Semitic harassment during the Holocaust are currently living in Israel.
In the past year, 14,264 survivors died – an average of about 41 per day.
The average age of Holocaust survivors is 84.5. 18% of them, about 31 thousand, are over the age of 90, and more than 900 are over the age of 100.
Between 2019 and 2021, 354 Holocaust survivors immigrated to Israel.
64% of Holocaust survivors are born in Europe, of which approximately 63.5 thousand were born in the former Soviet Union, 20.5 thousand were born in Romania, 9,600 were born in Poland, 4,800 were born in Bulgaria, 2,500 were born in Hungary, and 2,500 were born in Germany.
About a third of the survivors are natives of Asia and North Africa. Of these, about 32,000 are natives of Morocco and Algeria who suffered from anti-Semitic harassment and various restrictions during the Vichy regime. About 19,200 are Jews of Baghdad who were exposed to the Farhud riots in Iraq in mid-1941.
