Proportion of Jews in Israel drops in 2002: statistics

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Proportion of Jews in Israel drops in 2002: statistics

The proportion of Jews in Israeli population declined in 2002, according to the figures published by Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS) on Wednesday.

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The proportion of Jews in Israeli population declined in 2002, according to the figures published by Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS) on Wednesday.

Jews accounted for 76.8 percent of Israel's total population of 6,631,000 at the end of 2002 while the proportion at the end of 2001 was 77.2 percent, the statistics said.

In 2002, Arabs were 19 percent of the population, according to the ICBS figures.

The Jewish population's growth rate was 1.4 percent in 2002, virtually maintaining the same pace as in 2001, while the Muslim sector's growth rate was 3.4 percent, the Druze 2.1 percent and the Christian Arab 1.3 percent.

According to the statistics, there were some 1.9 million households in Israel in 2002, 85 percent of them in the Jewish sector and just 13 percent in the Arab sector.

The high proportion of Jewish households results from their smaller size -- on average a Jewish household has 3.1 persons, compared to 5.1 for Arabs.

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