Israel - Christian Population: Numerical Growth with Percentage Decrease Compared to Other Religions

Agenzia Fides ^ | 1/12/22

[marshmallow]

Nazareth (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian population of Israel continues the slight numerical growth that has characterized it since the founding of the Jewish state, but also continues its progressive decline in percentage compared to other faith communities - Jews, Muslims and Druze - present in the country.

The Israeli Central Statistical Office published these data on Christmas Eve 2021. According to the Israeli Statistics Office, 182,000 Christians currently live in Israel, which corresponds to 1.9 percent of the total population, while the growth rate of the Christian population in the Jewish state in 2020 was 1.4 percent.

Israeli statistics also provide data on the elements that characterize the Christian component from an ethnic, demographic, professional and cultural point of view. At the same time, to properly understand the meaning of the figures provided, it is useful to take into account some key factors conditioning data collection, and to compare the results of the latest surveys with similar statistics provided by Israel in previous years.

If one looks at the entire table of the growth of the various religious communities in the State of Israel since its founding, one finds, for example, that the number of Christians in the Jewish state totaled 34,000 in 1949, in 1970 it was 75,000, in 1990 almost 115,000 and more than 180,000 in 2019.

Over the same period, Israel's Muslim population grew from more than 111,000 (in 1949) to over 1.6 million in 2019. The number of Jews, which was around 1.17 million in 1949, had risen to 6.69 million in 2019. The growth rates of the Christian population in Israel are consistently lower than those of the Jewish and Islamic sections of Israeli society. A certain similarity can only be found with the Druze growth figures, the number of which was less than.......

[Dogbert41]

If you were to ask a Jewish believer in Jeshuah what his religion was, He’s not going to proclaim himself a Christian. To them, a Christian is a Gentile believer. They would consider themselves Messianic or completed Jews. And there are a lot of them in Israel and around the world. I would bet that most of those who were in their statistics as Christians where Arabs and Gentiles?