There are about 14 million Jews around the world, representing 0.2% of the global population.
This estimate is based on the number of people who self-identify as Jewish when asked about their religion on national censuses and large-scale surveys..
More than four-fifths of all Jews live in just two countries, the United States (41%) and Israel (41%).
The largest remaining shares of the global Jewish population are in Canada (about 3%), France (2%), the United Kingdom (2%), Germany (2%), Russia (2%) and Argentina (between 1% and 2%)..
As of 2023, the world's "core" Jewish population (those identifying as Jews above all else) was estimated at 16.1 million, 0.2% of the 8 billion worldwide population..
As of 2023, the world's "core" Jewish population (those identifying as Jews above all else) was estimated at 16 million, 0.2% of the 8 billion worldwide population..
The average U.S.
Jew lives in a household of 2.7 people, including 2.1 adults and 0.6 children.
Overall, the average size of Jewish households has not changed much since the 2013 survey.
Orthodox Jews tend to live in much larger households than Jews who identify with other branches or streams of American Judaism.May 11, 2021.
Jewish diaspora communities are generally described to have coalesced into three major ethnic subdivisions according to where their ancestors settled: the Ashkenazim (initially in the Rhineland and France), the Sephardim (initially in the Iberian Peninsula), and the Mizrahim (Middle East and North Africa)..
The two countries with the greatest shares of the world's Jewish population are the United States and Israel.
The United States had been a hub of Jewish immigration since the nineteenth century, as Jewish people sought to escape persecution in Europe by emigrating across the Atlantic..
