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INFOGRAPHICS
DEMOGRAPHICS Israel by Religion Today
The end-of-2024 population register, one square for each percent
End of 2024, one square for each percent Residents by religion, end of 2024
Jews 7,212,900 73.6%
Muslims 1,815,600 18.5%
Christians 181,800 1.9%
Druze 153,000 1.6%
Others 441,800 4.5%
Total 9,805,100
End of 2025, preliminary: CBS headline categories, 10,178,000 residents
76.3% 21.1%
Jews and Others 7,771,000 Arab citizens 2,147,000 Foreign workers and others about 260,000
Within the Arab group: Muslims 1,849,000, Arab Christians about 145,000, Druze about 153,000. All Christians, Arab and non-Arab, number 184,200.
CBS reports two overlapping systems. By religion, Jews are 73.6 percent of residents and “Others” 4.5 percent. By its headline category, “Jews and Others” are 76.3 percent and “Arabs” 21.1 percent. Arabs are Muslims, Druze and the roughly four in five Christians who are Arab.
Sources. CBS table for the end of 2024, total 9,805,100, as reproduced by Wikipedia. “Others” is the residual after Jews, Muslims, Christians and Druze. CBS headline totals for the end of 2025 from the CBS release reported by The Times of Israel and the Jerusalem Post. Muslims 1.849 million from CBS as reported by JNS. Christians 184,200 from CBS as reported in January 2026. The 2025 headline groups, “Jews and Others” and “Arabs”, are the CBS categories, and the 2025 Arab total includes about 145,000 Arab Christians and about 153,000 Druze.
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