How many people live in Israel right now?
Right now, according to UN estimates
9,689,068
| Today | In 2026 | |
|---|---|---|
| Births | · | · |
| Deaths | · | · |
| Net migration | · | · |
| Growth | · | · |
2026 figures
- Rank by population
- 97 of 237
- Share of world population
- 0.12%
- Median age
- 29.3 years
- Children per woman
- 2.73
- Life expectancy
- 82.9 years
- People per km²
- 446
According to UN estimates, about 9.7 million people live in Israel right now. It ranks 97th out of 237 countries and territories by population, between Greece and Hungary, and it is home to one in every 859 people on the planet.
Every day, about 470 people are born there and about 150 die. More people arrive than leave: net migration adds about 13,000 people a year. Overall, the population grows by about 360 people a day (1.36% a year).
In 1950, about 1.3 million people lived there. Today there are 7.5 times as many. The UN expects it to keep growing for the rest of the century. By 2050 it is projected to have about 13.1 million people (35% more than today), and by 2100 about 19.7 million.
Half of its people are younger than 29 (worldwide, 31). Women have an average of 2.73 children each, above the 2.1 needed for each generation to replace the one before, and life expectancy at birth is 83 years (worldwide, 74). There are 446 people per square kilometer.
UN estimates up to today and projections (medium variant) from today onward.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the population of Israel in 2026?
- Israel has about 9.7 million people right now, according to the UN's World Population Prospects 2024. On July 1, 2026, there were 9,647,689.
- How many people are born each day in Israel?
- About 470 a day (172,000 a year). About 150 people die each day (53,800 a year).
- Is the population of Israel growing?
- Yes: it grows by 1.36% a year, or about 131,000 people.
- What will the population of Israel be in 2050?
- According to the UN projection (medium variant), about 13.1 million.
- Why doesn't this figure match the country's official statistics?
- The UN estimates the population of every country with the same method, based on censuses, surveys and registers, and projects it year by year. Each national statistics office uses its own censuses and registers, which may be more up to date or count foreign residents differently. That is why the figures can differ slightly.
Countries with a similar population
- Portugal 10,389,851
- Togo 9,997,631
- Greece 9,883,426
- Hungary 9,575,484
- Austria 9,105,436
- Switzerland 9,019,223
More countries in Asia
- India 1,480,587,163
- China 1,411,888,366
- Indonesia 288,550,441
- Pakistan 260,628,305
- Bangladesh 178,484,583
- Japan 122,206,965
- Philippines 118,018,966
- Vietnam 102,351,370
- Iran 93,380,316
- Turkey 88,012,291
- Thailand 71,536,965
- Myanmar 55,285,274
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Where these figures come from
The figures are estimates from the United Nations Population Division, published in World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant): the reference used by international organizations and by most population counters. The UN estimates how many people there are on July 1 of each year and how many are born, die and migrate; between one date and the next, this counter spreads the change continuously, second by second.
It is not a real-time headcount: nobody can count every person in a country at once. It is the best available estimate, and it may differ slightly from the figures of each country's statistics office, which use their own censuses and population registers.