page_title: Demographics of Israel
section_title: Arabs
hierarchical_section_title: Demographics of Israel / Ethnic and religious groups / Arabs
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a map of all the Arabic speaking localities in the State of Israel (including East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights). Striped represent officially mixed cities (by law, at least 2% Arabs in a Jewish majority city). Note: Jerusalem is officially a mixed city but the map shows the boundries of Arab and Jewish neighborhoods.
context_page_description: The State of Israel has a population of approximately 9,199,700 inhabitants as of May 2020. Some 74.24% are Jews of all backgrounds, 20.95% are Arab of any religion other than Jewish, while the remaining 4.81% are defined as "others", including persons of Jewish ancestry deemed non-Jewish by religious law and persons of non-Jewish ancestry who are family members of Jewish immigrants, Christian non-Arabs, Muslim non-Arabs and all other residents who have neither an ethnic nor religious classification.
  Israel's annual population growth rate stood at 2.0% in 2015, more than three times faster than the OECD average of around 0.6%. With an average of three children per woman, Israel also has the highest fertility rate in the OECD by a considerable margin and much higher than the OECD average of 1.7.
  The demographics of Israel are monitored by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.
context_section_description: Arab citizens of Israel are those Arab residents of Mandatory Palestine, who remained within Israel's borders following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the establishment of the state of Israel. It is including those born within the state borders subsequent to this time, as well as those who had left during the establishment of the state (or their descendants), who have since re-entered by means accepted as lawful residence by the Israeli state (primarily family reunifications).
  In 2019, the official number of Arab residents in Israel was 1,890,000 people, representing 21% of Israel's population. This figure includes 209,000 Arabs (14% of the Israeli Arab population) in East Jerusalem, also counted in the Palestinian statistics, although 98 percent of East Jerusalem Palestinians have either Israeli residency or Israeli citizenship.
caption: Distribution of Arabic speaking localities in Israel
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