CBS: Israel's population at 2010 is 7.5m

According to CBS figures75.4% of the population is Jewish and 20.3% Arabs. During 2009 Israel's population grew by 1.8%
 
Figures released last Wednesday by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) show that on the eve of a new decade, Israel's population stands at 7,509,000.
 
According to CBS figures75.4% of the population is Jewish (5,664,000 people), 20.3% Arabs (1,526,000 citizens), and 4.3% others (319,000, immigrants and their families who are not registered as being Jewish by the Ministry of Interior).
 
During 2009, Israel's population grew by 1.8% - a rate of increase that has remained stable since 2003 (160,000 new babies born since last January 1 and some 14,500 new immigrants arriving over the past year).
 
According to the CBS's population report published ahead of the Jewish New Year in September, Israel is still a fairly young nation with nearly 30% of its population under the age of 14, compared to 17% in most other Western countries.
 
Only 9.7% of the population is over the age of 65 in Israel, whereas in other Western countries this figure is closer to roughly 15%.
 
The CBS report also showed that the average Jewish family size increased since 2008 from 2.8 children per household to 2.96.
 
In the Muslim community, the average number of children per mother was 3.84, a drop from the previous two years where it had reached 3.97 children per household. Among Christian families the average number of children was down to 2.11 in 2008.