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Approximately One In Seven Jews Worldwide Are Frum, Report

A report published by the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research has provided a heart warming number for worldwide Jewry. Approximately one in seven Jews worldwide identify as Orthodox • Full Story

The high growth rate among Charedi Orthodox Jews has pushed their population past two million, accounting for as much as 80% of the total growth of the world’s Jewish population, according to a new report by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research.

The report, the first-ever attempt to create estimates of the global Charedi population, calculated and estimated its current size to be about 2.1 million worldwide, or 14% of the total Jewish population of 15 million. It said the Charedi population could double in size by the year 2040 to more than a fifth of the total.

“This report capitalizes on new resources and advances made in the methods of estimation, and is the first time in the history of this subject that such estimates have been calculated,” said its author, Dr. Daniel Staetsky, a senior research fellow at JPR and director of its European Jewish Demography Unit.

Staetsky is a former researcher and analyst for Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics and RAND Europe. His expertise spans the disciplines of demography, applied statistics and history.

Together, Israel and the US account for about 92% of Charedi Jews, the report said. Europe is home to 5% of the global haredi population, while the rest live mainly in Latin America, South Africa, Canada and Australia.

Outside of Israel and the US, the three largest Charedi populations are in the UK (about 75,000, or 25% of all British Jews), Canada (30,000, 8%) and France (12,000, 3%).

While the world Jewish population has been growing 0.7% annually over the past decade, the Charedi population is growing 3.5%-4.0% annually – five to almost six times as fast. As much as 70%-80% of worldwide Jewish population growth was attributed to the Charedim.

Updated Jewish population figures from additional countries include:

France: 446,000
Canada: 393,000
Great Britain: 292,000
Argentina: 175,000
Russia: 150,000
Germany: 118,000
Australia: 118,000
Brazil: 91,500
South Africa: 52,000
Ukraine: 43,000
Hungary: 47,000
Mexico: 40,000
The Netherlands: 30,000
Belgium: 29,000
Italy: 27,000
Switzerland: 18,500
Chile: 16,000
Uruguay: 16,000
Sweden: 15,000
Turkey: 14,500
Spain: 13,000
Austria: 10,000
Panama: 10,000

Additional data from the study include:

Around 27,000 Jews live in Arab and Muslim states, of whom 14,500 live in Turkey, around 9,500 in Iran, around 2,000 in Morocco, and approximately 1,000 in Tunisia.

Countries with Jewish populations of 500 or fewer include: United Arab Emirates, Bermuda, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Jamaica, Curacao, the Virgin Islands, Bolivia, Surinam, Cyprus, Malta, Slovenia, Bosnia, Albania, North Macedonia, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Congo, Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Namibia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Yemen, Syria, and Egypt.

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iacov israel blumenfeld

I’sorry to tell, that in reality and a fact the jewish population are much more than the writhing number,,and the number of jewish people in Brasil, as we know from the institutions, are much more than what is writhing, kein yrbu, so, who made the analys, has to be carerful