Israel

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Key facts:
  • Country Long: State of Israel
  • Currency: Israeli new shekel
  • Capital City: Jerusalem
  • Region: Western Asia
  • Continent: Asia
  • Demonym: Israeli
  • Latitude: 31°50′N
  • Longitude: 34°75′E
  • Agricultural Land: 6,435.00
  • Forest Area: 1,400 m²
  • Land Area: 21,640 m²
  • Rural Land: 19,195.20
  • Urban Land: 2,743.73
  • Central Government Debt Pct Gdp: 88.60%
  • Expense Pct Gdp: 38.37%
  • Gdp: 522,033,000,000.00
  • Inflation: 4.39
  • Self Employed Pct: 12.26%
  • Tax Revenue Pct Gdp: 24.62%
  • Unemployment Pct: 3.48%
  • Vulnerable Employment Pct: 8.37%
  • Electricity Access Pct: 100.00%
  • Alternative Nuclear Energy Pct: 5.25%
  • Electricty Production Coal Pct: 45.40%
  • Electricty Production Hydroelectric Pct: 0.04%
  • Electricty Production Gas Pct: 51.61%
  • Electricty Production Oil Pct: 0.65%
  • Electricty Production Renewable Pct: 1.85%
  • Energy Imports Pct: 64.97%
  • Fossil Energy Consumption Pct: 97.38%
  • Renewable Energy Consumption Pct: 5.61%
  • Co2 Emissions: 58,471.80
  • Methane Emissions: 9,801.47
  • Nitrous Oxide Emissions: 2,690.53
  • Greenhouse Other Emissions: 8,969.48
  • Urban Population Under 5M: 1.60
  • Health Expenditure Pct Gdp: 8.32%
  • Health Expenditure Capita: 3,867.40
  • Hospital Beds: 2.98
  • Suicide Rate: 5.30
  • Armed Forces: 178,000.00
  • Military Expenditure Pct Gdp: 4.51%
  • Birth Rate: 19.70
  • Death Rate: 5.40
  • Fertility Rate: 3.00
  • Internet Pct: 90.30%
  • Life Expectancy: 82.00
  • Net Migration: 16,856
  • Population Female: 4,786,984
  • Population Male: 4,763,616
  • Population: 9,550,600
  • Women Parliament Seats Pct: 23.33%
  • Rural Population: 691,177
  • Urban Population: 8,859,423
  • Press: 2.54
  • Democracy Score: 7.79
  • Democracy Type: Flawed democracy
  • Median Age: 25.10
  • Political Leader: Yair Lapid (Prime Minister)

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Population

The country has a total population of 9,550,600 (0.12% of worldwide)

The average net migration is 16,856 (0.2% of pop)

The population density is around 441 ppl/km²

Population distribution

The total population is 9,550,600

The male share is 49.9% and female 50.1%

The urban population represent 92.8% and rural 7.2%

The median age is 25.1

Age distribution:

Age group Pop Share
0 935,075 9.79%
5 920,921 9.64%
10 824,779 8.64%
15 748,087 7.83%
20 695,539 7.28%
25 639,631 6.70%
30 624,385 6.54%
35 615,269 6.44%
40 582,499 6.10%
45 557,041 5.83%
50 471,993 4.94%
55 402,269 4.21%
60 382,753 4.01%
65 350,376 3.67%
70 311,784 3.26%
75 204,404 2.14%
80 283,796 2.97%
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Location

Israel is located in Western Asia, Asia

The total country area is 21,640 km² (0.02% of worldwide)

Jerusalem is the capital

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Cities

There are 89 cities in Israel in our database, they represent 40.27% of the population of the country altogether

City Population
Jerusalem 714,685
Tel Aviv-Yafo 370,480
Haifa 269,961
Ashdod 202,681
Ashdod 202,681
Netanya 172,405
Bene Beraq 140,849
Bat Yam 130,973
Ramat Gan 126,864
Ashqelon 108,342
Kefar Sava 80,922
Lod 68,095
Bet Shemesh 64,838
Ramla 63,837
Nahariyya 50,881
Qiryat Atta 49,548
Qiryat Gat 48,946
Elat 46,707
Hod HaSharon 42,996
Tiberias 41,029
Qiryat Motzkin 40,694
Qiryat Yam 38,122
Qiryat Bialik 37,385
Ramat HaSharon 35,556
Dimona 33,354
Tayibe 32,736
Yavne 32,394
Or Yehuda 30,977
Tamra 25,839
Netivot 24,933
Qiryat Ono 24,907
Qiryat Ono 24,907
Ofaqim 24,633
Sakhnin 24,401
Qiryat Shemona 22,738
Nesher 21,811
Sederot 20,865
Tirat Karmel 19,234
Kafar Qasem 17,189
Reine 16,157
Gan Yavne 14,830
Kafar Manda 14,771
Gedera 14,267
Kefar Yona 12,771
Ganne Tiqwa 12,408
Iksal 11,213
Azur 10,338
Nahef 10,077
Beit Jann 10,001
Fureidis 9,805
Kabul 9,301
Yeroham 9,148
Even Yehuda 9,091
Tel Mond 8,939
Deir Hanna 8,658
Rekhasim 8,521
Mazkeret Batya 8,283
Bene Ayish 8,193
Jaljulye 7,580
Pardesiyya 6,348
Bet Dagan 5,990
Shelomi 5,784
Ramat Yishay 5,722
Abu Ghosh 5,570
Kefar Weradim 5,559
Hurfeish 5,252
Kefar Habad 4,771
Mizpe Ramon 4,769
Qesarya 4,300
Sajur 3,547
Savyon 3,434
Kafar Kama 2,990
Fassuta 2,985
Elyakhin 2,728
Jish 2,684
Uzeir 2,591
Rosh Pinna 2,492
Sulam 2,426
Kefar Tavor 2,323
Sheikh Dannun 2,305
Nordiyya 2,264
Nehalim 2,061
Ibtin 2,020
Sallama 1,800
Timrat 1,789
Kefar Shemaryahu 1,774
Bet Yizhaq 1,674
Rumat Heib 1,588
Nein 1,588

Politics

Israel democracy type is: Flawed democracy

Prime Minister Yair Lapid is the political leader of the country

Democracy forecast: protests for more democracy are likely

Parity forecast: at this rate of evolution, parity will be reached in 2049

Political parties

There are 127 parties in our database

Party
Achrayut Leumit (Israel)
Achva (Israel)
Agriculture And Development (Israel)
Agudat Yisrael (Israel)
Agudat Yisrael Po Alei Agudat Yisrael (Israel)
Ahdut Ha Avoda Poalei Zion (Israel)
Alignment (Israel)
Am Ehad (Israel)
ATID (Israel)
Center Party (Israel)
Civil Rights Movement (Israel)
Democratic Choice (Israel)
Democratic List For Israeli Arabs (Israel)
Democratic Movement For Change (Israel)
Fighters List (Israel)
Free Center (Israel)
General Zionists (Israel)
Gesher (Israel)
Geulat Yisrael (Israel)
Gil Pensioners Party (Israel)
Haatzma Ut (Israel)
Habayit Haleumi (Israel)
Habayit Hayehudi Chaired By Naftali Bennett (Israel)
Habayit Hayehudi (Israel)
Habayit Hayehudi New National Religious Party (Israel)
Hadash (Israel)
Hatenua Chaired By Tzipi Livni (Israel)
Herut Liberal Bloc (Israel)
Herut Movement (Israel)
Herut National Movement (Israel)
Ichud Leumi (Israel)
Ichud Leumi Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel)
Independent Liberals (Israel)
Independent Socialist Faction (Israel)
Israel In The Center (Israel)
Israel Communist Party (Israel)
Israel Labor Party (Israel)
Joint List Hadash Raam Balad Taal (Israel)
KACH (Israel)
Kadima (Israel)
Kidma Ve Avoda (Israel)
Kidma Vepituah (Israel)
Kulanu Chaired By Moshe Kahlon (Israel)
Labor Meimad Am Ehad (Israel)
Labor Meimad (Israel)
Labor Under Ehud Barak (Israel)
Liberal Party Of Israel (Israel)
Likud Gesher Tzomet (Israel)
Likud (Israel)
Likud National Liberal Movement (Israel)
Likud Yisrael Beitenu (Israel)
Mada Ra Am (Israel)
Meretz (Israel)
Meretz Yahad And The Democratic Choice (Israel)
Meretz Yahad (Israel)
Moked (Israel)
Moledet Ichud Leumi (Israel)
Moledet (Israel)
Movement For The Heritage Of Israel (Israel)
Movement For National Renewal (Israel)
National Arab Party (Israel)
National Democratic Assembly (Israel)
National List (Israel)
National Religious Party (Israel)
Nazareth Democratic Party (Israel)
New Communist List (Israel)
New Liberal Party (Israel)
New Movement Meretz (Israel)
New Way (Israel)
One Israel 1 (Israel)
One Israel 2 (Israel)
Otzma Leyisrael (Israel)
Pitu Ah Veshalom (Israel)
Po El Mizrahi (Israel)
Poalei Agudat Yisrael (Israel)
Progressive List For Peace (Israel)
Progressive Party (Israel)
Ra Am Ta Al (Israel)
Radical Camp Of Israel (Israel)
RAFI (Israel)
Religious Torah Front (Israel)
Renewed National Religious Zionism (Israel)
Right Israel (Israel)
Secular Faction (Israel)
Sephardim And Oriental Communities (Israel)
SHAS (Israel)
Shinui Center Party (Israel)
Shinui Party For The Secular And The Middle Class (Israel)
Shinui The Secular Movement (Israel)
Shituf Ve Achva (Israel)
Single Mk Ari Jabotinsky (Israel)
Single Mk Avner Hai Shaki (Israel)
Single Mk Benjamin Halevi (Israel)
Single Mk Chaim Amsellem (Israel)
Single Mk Efraim Gur (Israel)
Single Mk Haim Druckman (Israel)
Single Mk Hillel Kook (Israel)
Single Mk Joseph Azran (Israel)
Single Mk Joseph Bagad (Israel)
Single Mk Mordechai Ben Porat (Israel)
Single Mk Shalom Cohen (Israel)
Single Mk Shimon Ben Shlomo (Israel)
Single Mk Shmuel Tamir (Israel)
Single Mk Yigal Yadin (Israel)
Tehiya Bnai (Israel)
Tehiya (Israel)
Tekuma (Israel)
The Right Way (Israel)
The Third Way (Israel)
Tzomet (Israel)
United Arab List 1 (Israel)
United Arab List (Israel)
United Religious Front (Israel)
United Torah Judaism (Israel)
United Workers Party (Israel)
Unity Party (Israel)
Unknown (Israel)
WIZO (Israel)
Worker S Party Of Eretz Yisrael (Israel)
Ya Ad 2 (Israel)
Yemenite Association Of Israel (Israel)
Yesh Atid (Israel)
Yi Ud (Israel)
Yisrael Be Aliyah (Israel)
Yisrael Beitenu (Israel)
Zionism Liberalism Equality (Israel)
Zionist Camp (Israel)

GDP Evolution

The country GDP is 0.53% of worldwide

The GDP per capita is $54,659.71 and the GDP per km² is $24,123,521.26

Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2)

Latest: 58,472 kt CO2 / yr (0.18% of worlwide)

Artists

There are 80 artists in our database for Israel:

Here are 100 of the most prolific ones:

Artist Born Dead
Bezalel Schatz 1913
Menashe Kadishman 1932 2015
Zwi Milshtein 1934
William Brui 1946
Munio Gitai Weinraub 1909 1970
Reuven Rubin 1893 1974
Micha Ullman 1939
Moshe Kupfermann 1926 2003
Moshe Gershuni 1936 2017
Marcel Janco 1895 1984
Nahum Tevet 1946
Elad Lassry 1977
Pinchas Cohen Gan 1942
Tsibi Geva 1951
Roi Kuper 1956
Michal Rovner 1957
Revital Cohen 1981
Benni Efrat
Phillip Rantzer 1958
Grete Wolf-Krakauer 1890 1970
Jakob Steinhardt 1887 1968
Micha Bar-Am 1930
Jacob El Hanani 1947
Absalon 1964 1993
Eyal Burstein 1977
Anna Ticho 1894 1981
Amikam Toren 1945
Sigalit Landau 1969
David Reeb 1952
Shay Alkalay 1976
Josef Schwarzmann 1918 1985
Arieh Sharon 1900 1984
Mika Rottenberg 1976
Agam (Yaacov Agam) 1928
Adi Rosenblum 1962
Omer Fast 1972
Yarom Vardimon 1941
Yoram Lehman 1939
Noemi Smilansky 1918 2016
Yael Bartana 1970
Nachume Miller 1949 1998
Michael Gross 1920 2004
Elinor Carucci 1971
Barry Frydlender 1954
Keren Cytter 1977
Guy Ben-Ner 1969
Tirtza Even 1963
Jan Tichy 1974
Orian Barki 1985
Itai Doron 1967
Ori Gersht 1967
Arthur Brutter 1982
Ilit Azoulay 1972
Ron Gilad 1972
Yael Mer 1976
Irit Batsry 1957
Zadok Ben-David 1949
Ido Bruno 1963
Schlomo Koren 1932
Michael Blum 1966
Oded Ezer 1972
Horit Herman Peled
Izika Gaon 1938
Ezra Orion 1934 2015
Izhar Patkin 1955
Moshe Elazar Castel 1909 1992
David Ben Shaul
Esti Schur
Shalom Of Safed (Shalom Moskowitz) 1895 1980
Mati Basis 1933
Mordechai Avniel
Igael Tumarkin 1933
Isidora Aschheim
Galya Rosenfeld 1977
Yehudit Sasportas 1969
Yaron Leshem 1972
Gabi Klasmer 1950
Naomi Tereza Salmon 1965
Ruven Levav 1948 2014
A.D. Meraz industries Ltd., Sderot, Israel

COVID-19 Situation

Latest total reported figures for Israel

09-Mar Last 7 days vs last week Total
Cases 660 3,436 -7.76% 4,803,824
Deaths 4 26 -25.71% 12,329
Case Fatality 0.61% 0.76% -19.15% 0.26%

Reported Covid-19 deaths, Israel

There have been a total of 12,329 deaths related to COVID-19 in Israel, 4 yesterday and 26 in the last 7 days (-25.71%)

The chart below shows a rolling 7-day average, and includes all corrections made by countries in the past

Reported Covid-19 cases, Israel

There have been a total 4,803,824 cases related to COVID-19 in Israel, 660 yesterday and 3,436 in the last 7 days (-7.76%)

The graph below shows a rolling 7-day average, and includes all corrections made by countries in the past

In literature

There are 2174 books about Israel in our database:

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