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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Israel and 
Palestine, side by side
Israel in 2026: half the people are older than 30. Palestine: half are older than 21.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Israel 9,256,314 people · Palestine 5,409,202
How to read this: each pyramid stacks a place’s people by age — babies at the bottom, the oldest at the top, men on the left and women on the right. A wide bottom means many children; a wide top means many older people.
Each bar is a share of its own place’s people, so a small country and a large one can be read side by side.
men women projected
ISR × PSE · 2026 · age groups
If each place were 100 people
Shrink each population to 100 people and count them. Dots are children under 15, filled squares are people aged 15 to 64, and open squares are people 65 and over. The picture follows the year slider above.
- Children, under 15
- 27
- Aged 15 to 64
- 60
- Aged 65 and over
- 13
- Children, under 15
- 37
- Aged 15 to 64
- 59
- Aged 65 and over
- 4
ISR × PSE · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
At today's rates, a woman in Israel would have about 2.7 children in her lifetime. In Palestine, about 3.1. Babies born this year can expect about 83 years of life in Israel and about 77 in Palestine.
Children per woman, 2026
Each figure is one child: how many children a woman would have in her lifetime at that year’s rates.
The dashed line at 2.1 is about what it takes for each generation to replace the one before it, leaving migration aside.
How long a newborn can expect to live, 2026
Each block is ten years of life, if the death rates of that year stayed the same all life long.
Hatched marks are UN projections (medium variant), not measurements.
ISR × PSE · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
There are 9.6 million people in Israel and 5.7 million in Palestine: about 70% more people than Palestine.
Israel's population is 7.5 times what it was in 1950; Palestine's population is 6.0 times what it was in 1950.
Israel's population is still growing in 2100; Palestine's population is still growing in 2100. In 2100: 19.7 million in Israel, 11.5 million in Palestine (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Israel: people | Palestine: people | Israel: half older than | Palestine: half older than | Israel: children per woman | Palestine: children per woman | Israel: life expectancy | Palestine: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 1.28924 million | 944,620 | 25.5 | 17.1 | 4.57 | 7.84 | 69.9 | 45.8 |
| 1960 | 1.89193 million | 1.07308 million | 25.3 | 16.1 | 4.37 | 7.79 | 69.8 | 49.3 |
| 1970 | 2.86478 million | 1.11628 million | 23.2 | 15.3 | 3.79 | 7.65 | 71.2 | 55.4 |
| 1980 | 3.72167 million | 1.46906 million | 25.0 | 15.1 | 3.15 | 7.18 | 73.7 | 62.2 |
| 1990 | 4.54500 million | 2.13907 million | 25.8 | 15.4 | 2.84 | 6.81 | 78.0 | 67.8 |
| 2000 | 6.11119 million | 3.15179 million | 27.8 | 16.1 | 2.92 | 5.46 | 79.2 | 70.3 |
| 2010 | 7.33674 million | 4.01692 million | 29.4 | 18.3 | 3.03 | 4.43 | 82.0 | 73.3 |
| 2023 | 9.25631 million | 5.40920 million | 30.1 | 20.8 | 2.83 | 3.31 | 82.4 | 65.2 |
| 2030* | 10.1760 million | 6.12231 million | 30.5 | 22.3 | 2.64 | 2.93 | 83.5 | 78.1 |
| 2040* | 11.5815 million | 7.29183 million | 31.5 | 25.5 | 2.46 | 2.59 | 84.8 | 79.7 |
| 2050* | 13.0927 million | 8.45189 million | 33.2 | 29.0 | 2.31 | 2.34 | 86.1 | 81.3 |
| 2060* | 14.5948 million | 9.43300 million | 34.8 | 32.3 | 2.19 | 2.15 | 87.2 | 82.7 |
| 2070* | 15.9993 million | 10.2848 million | 36.2 | 35.4 | 2.09 | 2.02 | 88.3 | 84.1 |
| 2080* | 17.3737 million | 10.9190 million | 37.9 | 38.6 | 2.02 | 1.93 | 89.4 | 85.3 |
| 2090* | 18.6675 million | 11.2929 million | 39.9 | 41.7 | 1.95 | 1.87 | 90.5 | 86.5 |
| 2100* | 19.7470 million | 11.4822 million | 41.6 | 44.2 | 1.91 | 1.82 | 91.5 | 87.5 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
ISR − PSE · 1950–2100 · every age
Which ages each place has more of
Each column is a year and each row an age, from babies at the bottom to 100 at the top. The shade of a cell shows which place has more of its people at that age — the key beside the picture tells you which shade is Israel and which is Palestine, and the in-between shade means the same. Because it compares shares, a small place and a large one can be compared fairly.
236 countries · 1950–2100
Where they sit among all countries
Every country in the world, every year from 1950 to 2100. The grey cloud shows where most countries are; Israel is drawn in solid blue squares and Palestine in open orange squares, so you can see whether each is ahead of the crowd, behind it or in the middle.
Apparatus
Sources and method
Israel and Palestine are drawn here from one source and one release: the UN Population Division's World Population Prospects 2024, counted through 2023 and projected on its medium variant after that. Two places read off the same tables can be set against each other; two read off different tables cannot.
The working behind the median age, the rounding in the “100 people” pictures and the reason the regions are kept out of the all-country views are all set out in the method.
250 comparisons have a page of their own; any other two places can be compared from the boxes at the top.
Sources: UN WPP 2024 · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
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