Find out the population of Palestine at the end of 2020
The head of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Dr. Ola Awad, said that the estimated number of Palestinians at the end of 2020 was about 13.7 million Palestinians. Of them 5.2 million in the State of Palestine, about 1.6 million Palestinians in the territories of 1948, approximately 6.2 million in the Arab countries and about 738 thousand in foreign countries.
The head of the Statistics Authority added - in a report reviewing the conditions of Palestinians at the end of 2020 - that the agency’s estimates indicate that the Palestinian population in historical Palestine reached about 6.80 million by the end of 2020, while the number of Jews is expected to reach 6.88 million by the end of 2020. The number of Palestinians and Jews will be equal by the end of 2022, when the number of Palestinians and Jews will be approximately 7.1 million each.
She pointed out that the population of the State of Palestine was about 5.2 million; Of them 3.1 million in the West Bank and 2.1 million in the Gaza Strip .. While the percentage of the refugee population in 2017 was about 42% of the total Palestinian population residing in the State of Palestine. By 26% in the West Bank and 66% in the Gaza Strip.
She noted that the total fertility rate during the period (2017-2019) decreased to 3.8 births, compared to 4.6 births in 1999. Of 3.8 births in the West Bank and 3.9 births in the Gaza Strip.
The average household size decreased to 5.1 members in 2019 compared to 6.1 members in 2000. By 4.9 individuals in the West Bank and 5.5 persons in the Gaza Strip.
She explained that the mortality rate for children under the age of five in the State of Palestine was 14 children per thousand live births during the period 2015-2019. 15 in the West Bank and 14 in the Gaza Strip. On the other hand, infant mortality rates reached 12 children per 1,000 live births for the same period. 12 in the West Bank and 13 children in the Gaza Strip .. The data indicate a decrease in the infant mortality rate during the previous ten years, reaching 15 children per thousand live births.
The results for 2020 indicate that about 13% of women in the 20-24 age group got married for the first time before reaching the age of 18 years, as the percentage in the West Bank was about 11% compared to about 17% in the Gaza Strip.
It is noticeable that this percentage is low compared to 2014, as the percentage of women in the age group 20-24 who married for the first time before reaching the age of 18 in Palestine in 2014 was about a quarter of women (24%).
Awad explained that the total fertility rate of Palestinian women residing in Jordan was 3.3 births in 2010 compared to 2.5 births in Syria in 2010, while the rate was 2.7 births for Palestinian women in Lebanon in 2017.
The agency confirmed that the estimated number of Palestinians in the lands of 1948 reached about 1.63 million Palestinians at the end of the year 2020, and the percentage of males under the age of fifteen reached 32.4% compared to 31.4% for females, while the percentage of males aged (65 years and over) reached 4.5% Against 5.4% for females in 2019.
The number of workers decreased from 1,022 thousand workers in the third quarter of 2019 to 935 thousand workers in the third quarter of 2020, by 8%, as the number in the Gaza Strip decreased by 17% compared to the third quarter of 2019, and it decreased in the West Bank by 5.5% during the same period.
While the number of workers absent from their work increased from 99,000 in the third quarter of 2019 to 117,000 in the third quarter of 2020, by 18%, and this increase may be due to reasons related to the Covid 19 pandemic and the measures taken to limit its spread.
The number of workers in the local market decreased from 881 thousand workers in the third quarter of 2019 to 800 thousand workers in the third quarter of 2020, as the number decreased in the Gaza Strip by 17%, and it decreased in the West Bank by 5.9%.
The Palestinian Statistics Authority indicated that 47% of workers were absent from work during the closure period extending from the fifth of March to the twenty-fifth of May of 2020, with a clear contrast between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (54% in the West Bank, and 32% in the Gaza Strip). Gaza).
The measures approved by the government during the period of the Corona pandemic led to the disruption of educational institutions in the period from (March 5 - May 25/2020) to the shift to a remote education system to compensate students for what they missed of study materials. Despite this, the results of the survey indicated The Covid 19 (Corona) pandemic on the social and economic conditions of Palestinian families, 2020 indicates that 51% of families in the State of Palestine with children (6-18 years old) and enrolled in education before the closure participated in their children in remote educational activities during the closure period (53.3% in The West Bank and 48.5% in the Gaza Strip).
The survey data indicate that 40% of the families whose children participated in any of the educational activities remotely during the closure period assessed the experience as bad and did not fulfill its purpose, while about 39% evaluated the experience as good and served its purpose, but there is room to improve the experience, and 21 % Rated the experience as good and served its purpose.
The survey data also shows that 42% of Palestinian households reported that their income decreased by half or more during the closure period compared to February 2020.
About 41% of families indicated that their monthly expenditures on foodstuffs decreased during the closure period compared to February 2020 (42% in the West Bank and 40% in the Gaza Strip). About 29% of families indicated that cash transfer programs are among the most measures and procedures that the government must undertake, followed by providing job and employment opportunities (21%), and the third priority is providing food coupons, food parcels and vouchers (19%).
