Thursday, August 19, 2021

Percent of Jews in World Population Today

 Nadene Goldfoot                                         

                          Different Races of Jews- having left Jerusalem: 

Now is the big RETURN to Israel, and Jews of all nationalities are turning up.  Although the world Jewry has increased by more than 1.5 million since the year 2000, it is not the highest it’s ever been. In 1939, the world’s Jewish population peaked at over 16.7 million, but the atrocities of the Holocaust during World War II reduced the Jewry to less than 11 million. The population has been steadily recovering since.

Of the five major world religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam), Judaism is by far the rarest, accounting for just 0.18% of the world’s population. Although Judaism is the oldest of the Abrahamic religions by 1,800 years, Christianity and Islam account for 31.1% and 24.9% of the total world population respectively. In other words, there are 173 Christans and 138 Muslims for every Jew.

Organized world religions with a population higher than Judaism, represented in millions:

  • Christianity (2,382)
  • Islam (1,907)
  • Hinduism (1,161)
  • Buddhism (506)
  • Sikhism (26)
  • Spiritism (15)
  • Judaism (14.7)--6 million in Israel, 6 million in USA, 2 million scattered


                   Remaining  Jewish population of Europe 1945

Before the Nazi takeover of power in 1933, Europe had a vibrant, established, and diverse Jewish culture. By 1945, most European Jews—two out of every three—had been killed for a total of 6,000,000 killed in the Holocaust. 

 It was 601,730 Jews (Israelites) that were led into Canaan at the 2nd census by Moses.  (Numbers, Ch 26) in 1271 BCE.  

Jews make up 0.2% of the world population. One of the oldest and most practiced religions around the world is Judaism. Jewish people first originated in the Middle East and have grown to more than 14 million people worldwide. 

The enlarged Jewish population includes full or partial ancestry and tops 20 million, based on estimates taken in 2017. 

At the beginning of 2019, the world's "core" Jewish population, those identifying as Jews above all else, was estimated at 14.7 million (or 0.2% of the 7.89 billion humans).
                                                                         
       Jerusalem;  at the Western Wall, Jews saying a prayer
                                                                         
                                                      African Jew in Israel  
1. The most live in Israel.  There, 6,738,500 Jews reside.  That's 74.80% of the population which is now 8,789,774.    They are from all over the world.                                                  
Brooklyn, New York, USA, a Hasid crossing the street to go to shul.  
                                                                 
Sammy Davis, Jr.(1925-1990) famous singer, and dancer, converted to Judaism. When he lost his left eye, he was In the hospital, Eddie Cantor described to Davis the similarities between Jewish and Black cultures. Davis, born to a Catholic mother and Baptist father, began studying Jewish history, converting to Judaism several years later in 1961. One passage from his readings (from the book A History of the Jews by Abram L. Sachar), describing the endurance of the Jewish people, interested him in particular: "The Jews would not die. Three millennia of prophetic teaching had given them an unwavering spirit of resignation and had created in them a will to live which no disaster could crush."[ The accident marked a turning point in Davis's career, taking him from a well-known entertainer to a national celebrity. Read Sammy's bio (Yes, I Can).  
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2. 2nd in population is the United States where 5,700,00 Jews live.  That's 1.75% of the population of 332,915,073.  There had been 2% of the population that was Jewish.  Through death or immigration, the number is getting smaller.
                                                                                
            Four Frenchmen shopping for Shabbat were killed in kosher supermarket for being Jewish.-

 Story from 10 January 2015.https://www.timesofisrael.com/hunt-for-gunmans-accomplice-france-in-mourning-jews-in-fear-day-after-terror-attacks/

     3.  France, the most dangerous country for Jews; they have been leaving, making aliyah.  

French PM: ‘France without its Jews is no longer France’; Netanyahu, Abbas to attend Paris rally against terrorism Sunday; killer’s wife-accomplice may be in Syria 

Believe it or not, the 3rd largest Jewish population is France with 453,000 which is 0.70% of their population of 65,426,179.  
                                                                              
                                       Montreal, Canada in a synagogue celebrating 250 years 
4. Canada comes in 4th with 390,500 Jews which is 1.06% of the population of 38,067,903 people.                                                                         
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5. The United Kingdom has the 5th most Jews with 290,000 which is 0.43% of their population of 68,207,116.  
                                                                         
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6. Argentina is the 6th with 180,300 Jews which is 0.41% of their 45,605,826 population.  
                                                                                   
                                       Jews are fleeing Russia because of Putin
7. Russia has  172,000 Jews which is 0.12% of their population of 145,912,025.  So many of American Jews had immigrated to the USA from Russia.  It's surprising that so many are still listed from Russia being they are against all religions.  In 1980 I made aliyah to Israel and was in a class of 40, mostly Russians.  They were terrific students, learning Hebrew far faster than we few Americans because they were used to studying foreign languages and had a technique down  in order to learn.  Believe it or not, the Russians in my class were mostly Russian -English teachers.  They asked me a lot of questions;  an actual American teacher.  
These are the top 7 out of 96 countries where Jews reside. 
 There were 100 Jews living in Indonesia where 276,361, 783 people live.  Not surprising, Indonesia is #1 the highest of Muslim populations with 229,000,000 Muslims being 87o.20% Muslim.  This made Jews as 0.0% of the population.  
Iran still has 8,500 Jews which are 0.01% of the population of 85,028,759.  
China has 2,800 Jews which make up 0.00% of their population of 1,444,216,107.  
Ireland, which seems to me to always vote against Israel, has 2,600 Jews which is 0.05% of the population of 4,982,907.  They have a smaller population than Israel does.  
Resource;
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/jewish-population-by-country****
https://www.timesofisrael.com/terror-onslaught-in-paris/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Davis_Jr.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/jews-of-color-and-who-counts-in-the-jewish-community/
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/remaining-jewish-population-of-europe-in-1945
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bjj191
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/brooklyn-new-york-march-21-hasidic-1681099867

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hunt-for-gunmans-accomplice-france-in-mourning-jews-in-fear-day-after-terror-attacks/

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