The estimated number of Jews in the United States increased by , following a new survey by the Pew Research Center. The Jewish Agency will continue to be a solid bridge of solidarity and mutual responsibility between each community and between the State of Israel and global Jewry. Around 27, Jews live in Arab and Muslim states, of whom 14, live in Turkey, around 9, in Iran, around 2, in Morocco, and approximately 1, in Tunisia.
The number of people waiting to make Aliyah to Israel from Ethiopia is estimated at several thousands. The share of U. There also has been stability in the broader population that includes adults of Jewish background and of Jewish affinity.
An estimated 1. And 0. However, the survey points to a larger population of children living in Jewish households than its predecessor 2. In , the estimated share of U. In , however, the estimated share of all U. The difference in the estimated size of the child population probably reflects in part some real change, fueled by factors including the high concentration of Orthodox Jews among young adults of childbearing age and their high fertility rates, leading to more Jewish children.
But some of this difference may be attributable to measurement artifacts associated with the and surveys and their different modes of data collection.
Surveys were completed on the phone in and either by mail or online in Pew Research Center values transparency and humility. This is the first nationally representative study of U. Jews using address-based sampling ABS techniques. Additional studies using this method and future work by other scholars will increase our understanding of these results. Jewish population of all ages. By aggregating data from local Jewish community studies, key informants at Jewish Federations in larger communities, and rabbis and other Jewish community leaders in smaller communities, along with census data on heavily Jewish counties, Sheskin and Dashefsky estimate there were 7.
Jews in Sheskin and Dashefsky rely on the varying definitions of Jewish identity used by their diverse sources. A second set of U. The Brandeis team does multilevel Bayesian analysis of a large number of general population surveys measuring the Jewish-by-religion population, which they combine with analyses of local Jewish community surveys and the Pew Research Center survey to estimate the number of adults who are Jewish aside from religion and the number of children in the Jewish population.
See their technical report for additional details. The AJPP estimates there were 7. DellaPergola considers a wide range of sources and demographic factors to produce his estimates for each country.
To make U. The Pew Research Center estimate of 7. To those unaccustomed to thinking about Jewish population measurement and trends, the differences between all these estimates may appear modest. To survey researchers aware of the limits of surveys to provide precise data on rare populations, focusing on such small variations may seem unwarranted. And yet, the measure one chooses matters for whether the U. Finally, many Jewish organizations depend on population estimates at both the national and local level in planning programs and assessing their effectiveness at serving U.
Today, about 5. Since the founding of the state, the major source of population growth has been Jewish immigration aliyah from other countries. In the s, the very existence of a Jewish state made Jewish residence untenable in most Arab countries and brought about a major population shift from those countries to Israel.
As political and economic conditions in various countries have deteriorated, Jews from all over the world have found a haven in the Jewish state.
Throughout its history, Israel has lived with wars and conflicts with its neighboring Arab states, and with the Palestinians. Yet, Israel has established peace-treaties with some of its neighbors like Jordan and Egypt. Internally, political tensions and disputes between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews have caused fissures in the social and political fabric of Israeli life. Nonetheless, Israel has absorbed hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants, maintained a strong military defense, and created a viable culture and economy.
Israel has emerged as a world leader in various areas of science, technology and commerce. Since the founding of the state, the Hebrew language has been reborn and substantial cultural developments in literature, the arts and scholarship have been achieved. The Jewish population in countries around the world other than Israel and the United States is of various sizes. For example, there are about , Jews in Canada but only Jews in the Dominican Republic, about , in Great Britain and about in the Czech Republic, about , in Australia and about 2, in Japan, about , in France and about 5, in Panama.
Many small communities, despite their size, have vibrant Jewish communities, like San Jose, Costa Rica with about 2, Jews.
Each Jewish community has characteristics and problems that both sustain and challenge it. About 1. Many Jewish communities in central and Eastern Europe are exerting great efforts to restore Jewish life in countries devastated by the Holocaust and subsequent Communist domination. Since Volume One of the American Jewish Yearbook was published in , this annually published series has served as the most reliable source of information about Jewish communities throughout the world.
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