Posted on 05/31/2008 8:08:59 PM PDT by forkinsocket
Fertility rates in Jerusalem have been declining among Arabs and rising among Jews in recent years, according to statistics the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies issued to mark Jerusalem Day, today.
Among Arabs the rate has dropped to 4 children in 2006, from 4.3 in 2000, and among Jews it has risen to 3.9 children in 2006 from 3.7 in 2000.
However, the ratio of Jews and Arabs hasn't changed - 66 percent Jews (489,480) and 34 percent Arabs (256,820) totaling 746,300 at the end of 2007.
The negative migration balance in Jerusalem continued last year as 18,750 residents (most of them Jews) left the city and only 12,360 came to live there.
Some 284,850 people moved away from Jerusalem during 1990-2007 and some 174,560 moved in, marking a negative migration of 110,200.
In the first decade after the city's unification (1967-1977) 6 percent of those leaving Jerusalem moved to its metropolitan area in the Jerusalem district and the West Bank. The number of people moving from the capital into the metropolitan area rose to 32 percent during the second decade, to 45 percent in the third decade and has reached 51 percent in the past decade.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
We don’t have worry about Alouette’s family they are safe LOL!
What is the percentage of observant Jews that are having the 4 children per family? I would bet it is pretty high.
We really need a missionary from Planned Parenthood to form a new group in Palestine - 3 P’s, Pali’s killing Pali’s. That’s got a ring to it, doesn’t it.
Oh brother, here it comes...
...”IT’S THE JOOOOOOOOS FAULT.”
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
At last, some welcome demographic news.
Hey Alouette no problem on the ping since you just became Grandma for upteenth time
Yeah, 21 grandbabies, living all over the world, in New York, Toronto, Israel, and Moscow. Doing the Lord’s work. :)
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Arab birth rate on decline in Jerusalem...
GOOD!!!!
bttt
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