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American Jewish Year Book 2015 pp 273–364Cite as

World Jewish Population, 2015

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This chapter examines the size, geographic distribution and selected characteristics of the Jewish population in the world at the beginning of 2015. The total of world Jewry was assessed at 14.3 million, an increase of 95,000 over the previous year. Jews represent 1.98 per 1000 inhabitants of the world, estimated at over 7 billion. Two very different demographic trends prevailed among Jewish population globally: in 2014 it increased by 113,000 in Israel while it decreased by 18,000 in the aggregate of other Jewish communities. Numbers are much affected by the definition of who is a Jew. The chapter distinguishes between the main concept of a core Jewish population of 14.3 million, and various extended definitions inclusive of non-Jews of Jewish background or connected to Jews, up to 23 million according to Israel’s Law of Return. After discussing the main sources of data and their limits, we review the main factors of population change at work, such as births and deaths, international migration, assimilation and conversions. A detailed country-by-country overview follows outlining the overwhelming concentration of Jews in nine major countries and in 17 major urban areas, each with more than 100,000 Jews. Prospective demographic change is also outlined until 2050.

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    The 30 % for Canada is different from the percentage provided in Chap. 6 because the Chap. 6 percentage is for all existing married couples, whereas the 30 % is for only those marriages in about the past 5 years.

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Acknowledgments

Since inception, the American Jewish Year Book has documented the Jewish world and gave significant attention to Jewish population issues. Since 1981, responsibility for preparing annual population estimates for world Jewry was taken by the Division of Jewish Demography and Statistics of the A. Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Division was founded by Roberto Bachi in 1959, headed by Uziel O. Schmelz until 1986, and by the present author until 2010. Prof. Uzi Rebhun has been Division head since 2010. Jewish population estimates appeared in the AJYB, then under the aegis of the American Jewish Committee, until 2008. Since 2010, our world Jewish population estimates have appeared in the framework of the North American Jewish Data Bank (now the Berman Jewish Data Bank), and since 2012 within the renewed American Jewish Year Book. World Jewish population estimates as of January 1, 2009 as well as of January 1, 2011 were prepared for publication but not issued. The interested reader may consult past AJYB volumes for further details on how the respective annual estimates were obtained.

The author expresses warm appreciation to the editors of AJYB during more than 30 years of a close collaboration: Morris Fine and, Milton Himmelfarb, David Singer, Ruth Seldin and Lawrence Grossman, and currently Arnold Dashefsky and Ira M. Sheskin. The author also gratefully acknowledges the collaboration of many institutions and persons in various countries who supplied information or otherwise helped in the preparation of this study. Special thanks are due to my colleagues at The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Uzi Rebhun, Mark Tolts, Shlomit Levy, and Dalia Sagi. I am also indebted to those who over the years provided relevant information at different stages of the present study (alphabetically by the respective cities): Chris Kooyman (Amsterdam), the late Ralph Weill (Basel), Jim Schwartz (Bergen County, NJ), Shmuel Frankel (Bne Berak), Simon Cohn and Claude Kandiyoti (Brussels), András Kovács (Budapest), Ezequiel Erdei and Yaacov Rubel (Buenos Aires), Tally Frankental (Cape Town), Salomon Benzaquen and Tony Beker de Weinraub (Caracas), Cathleen Falsani and Tom W. Smith (Chicago), Frank Mott (Columbus, OH), Heike von Bassewitz and Ellen Rubinstein (Frankfurt a. M.), Frans van Poppel (The Hague), Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar (Hartford, CT), Maritza Corrales Capestrany (Havana), Lina Filiba (Istanbul), Steven Adler, Benjamin Anderman, Margalit Bejarano, Oren Cytto, Nurit Dovrin, Judith Even, Nethanel Fisher, the late Norma Gurovich, Israel Pupko, Liat Rehavi, Marina Sheps, Maya Shorer Kaplan, Emma Trahtenberg and Chaim I. Waxman (Jerusalem), David Saks (Johannesburg), Jonathan Boyd, Marlena Schmool and L.D. Staetsky (London), Pini Herman and Bruce Phillips (Los Angeles), Andrew Markus and Ran Porat (Melbourne), Judit Bokser Liwerant, Susana Lerner and Mauricio Lulka (Mexico City), Sarah Markowitz (Miami), Rafael Porzecanski (Montevideo), Evgueni Andreev and Eugeni Soroko (Moscow), David Bass (Neveh Daniel), the late Vivian Z. Klaff (Newark, DE), Steven M. Cohen, Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz and Lucette Lagnado (New York), Alberto Senderey and the late Doris Bensimon-Donat (Paris), Allen Glicksman (Philadelphia), Sidney Goldstein and Alice Goldstein (Providence, RI), the late Erik H. Cohen (Ramat Gan), Gloria Arbib and Alberto Levy (Rome), René Decol and Alberto Milkewitz (São Paulo), Mordehai Abargil (Singapore), Gary Eckstein and David Graham (Sydney), Allie A. Dubb (Tel Aviv), Gustave Goldman (Toronto), Jeffrey Scheckner (Union, NJ), Thomas Buettner and Hania Zlotnik (United Nations, NY), Sylvia Barack Fishman, Leonard Saxe, Charles Kadushin and Benjamin Phillips (Waltham, MA), Barry R. Chiswick, Carmel U. Chiswick, Alan Cooperman and Greg Smith (Washington, DC).

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DellaPergola, S. (2016). World Jewish Population, 2015. In: Dashefsky, A., Sheskin, I. (eds) American Jewish Year Book 2015. American Jewish Year Book, vol 115. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24505-8_7

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