The number of Jews worldwide stands at roughly 15.2 million, according to statistics released by the Jewish Agency for Israel on the eve of the Jewish new year 5782.
That number is up from 15.1 million the last Jewish new year (5781).
The number of Jews in Israel is nearly 6.9 million (compared to 6.8 million in 5781). The number of Jews living in the Diaspora is 8.3 million, of which 6 million are in the United States, according to an Israeli government press statement.
The percentage of Jews living in Israel out of all the Jews in the world stands at 45.3 percent, an increase of half a percent over the previous year. The estimated number of Jews in the United States increased by 300,000 following a new survey by the Pew Research Center.
The numbers include those who define themselves as Jews and don’t identify with another religion.
When also including those who are eligible for Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return, the world total rises to 25.3 million people, of which 7.3 million are in Israel and 18 million live outside Israel.
The updated estimates by Professor Sergio Della Pergola of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will be published in the American Jewish Year Book 2021.
Updated Jewish population figures from additional countries include:
France: 446,000 Canada: 393,000 Great Britain: 292,000 Argentina: 175,000 Russia: 150,000 Germany: 118,000 Australia: 118,000 Brazil: 91,500 South Africa: 52,000 Ukraine: 43,000 Hungary: 47,000 Mexico: 40,000 The Netherlands: 30,000 Belgium: 29,000 Italy: 27,000 Switzerland: 18,500 Chile: 16,000 Uruguay: 16,000 Sweden: 15,000 Turkey: 14,500 Spain: 13,000 Austria: 10,000 Panama: 10,000
An estimated 27,000 Jews live in Arab and Muslim states: 14,500 in Turkey, 9,500 in Iran, 2,000 in Morocco and around 1,000 in Tunisia.
Another 38 countries have Jewish populations of 500 or fewer.
