2017-11-16
It is estimated that the number of Palestinians in the world at the end of 2015 was about 12.366 million; half of them, or 6.145 million (49.7%), lived in the diaspora. The remaining half, or 6.221 million people (50.3%) reside in historic Palestine. They are distributed to about 1.471 million people in the occupied territories in 1948, and 4.75 million in the 1967 territories, distributed to 2.899 million in the West Bank (61%), 851 million in the Gaza Strip (39%).
In Jordan, the number of Palestinians at the end of 2015 was estimated at 3.892 million, constituting 31.5% of the Palestinians in the world (63.3% of the diaspora). The number of Palestinians in the rest of the Arab countries is estimated at 1.568 million, constituting 12.7% of the total number of Palestinians in the world, most of them concentrated in neighboring Arab countries, namely Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and the Gulf States. The number of Palestinians in foreign countries is estimated at 685,000, constituting 5.5% of the total number of Palestinians in the world, most of whom are concentrated in the United States of America, Latin America, Canada, Britain and the rest of the European Union.
|
Place of residence |
2014 |
2015 |
|||
|
number |
(%) |
number |
(%) |
||
|
Occupied territories in 1967 |
West Bank |
2,826.4 |
23.4 |
2,898.9 |
23.4 |
|
Gaza strip |
1,790 |
14.8 |
1,850.6 |
15 |
|
|
The occupied territories in 1948 "Israel" |
1,462.5 |
12.1 |
1,471.2 |
11.9 |
|
|
jordan* |
3,774.9 |
31.1 |
3,891.9 |
31.5 |
|
|
Other Arab Countries |
1,566.6 |
13 |
1,567.8 |
12.7 |
|
|
foreign countries |
675.3 |
5.6 |
685.4 |
5.5 |
|
|
total summation
|
12,095.7 |
100 |
12,365.8 |
100 |
|
* The number of Palestinians in Jordan was estimated according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) figures in 2009, reaching 3,240,473, depending on the annual growth rates issued by the Jordanian Department of Statistics.
Percentage of Palestinians in the world by residence at the end of 2015 (%)
In addition to some 6.017 million Palestinians abroad, there are some 1.989 million refugees residing in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as some 150,000 refugees who have been expelled from their land, but still reside in occupied Palestine In 1948, bringing the total number of Palestinian refugees to approximately 8.156 million, or about 67.4% of the total Palestinian population, in 2014. The number of refugees registered in the records of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) reached about 5,589 million at the end of 2014 breeze. Stressing that there are many refugees who have not registered with UNRWA because they do not need their services or because they are not in their places of work such as the Gulf countries, Europe and America.
