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Israel's population now stands at 7.5 million people

Dec 30, 2009, 15:18 GMT

Jerusalem - Israel's population grew by 1.8 per cent in 2009 and now stands at 7,509,000 people, the country's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said Wednesday in an end-of-year summing up. Jews number 5,664,000 people, or 75.4 per cent of the population, the CBS said, and Arabs account for 20.3% per cent, or 1,526,000 people. Some 319,000 people, or 4.3 per cent of the population are classified as 'others,' defined as non-Arab Christians, or followers of other religions. Israel's population has grown at a steady 1.8 per cent each year since 2003, the CBS said.

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