The projected number of Palestinians in the world is 13.05 million of whom 4.91 million are in Palestine and over 717000 in foreign countries the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) reported on Monday.
According to PCBS around 2.954 million Palestinians reside in the West Bank and 1.961 million in the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip.
Palestinian refugees make up 42% of the Palestinian population in Palestine; 26% of them in the West Bank and 66% in the Gaza Strip.
The total fertility rate declined during (2011-2013) to 4.1 births (compared to 5.9 births in 1999). In the besieged Gaza Strip the rate was 4.5 births compared to 3.7 births in the West Bank during 2011-2013.
The average household size Palestine was 5.1 persons in 2017 (compared to 6.1 in 2000); 4.8 persons in the West Bank and 5.6 persons in the Gaza Strip.
The number of Palestinians living in Israel (Palestinian territories occupied in 1948) is 1.568 million by the end of 2018 of whom the percentage of individuals under 18 years was about 40% for males and 39% for females while the percentage of individuals 65 years and above was 4% for males and 5% for females at the end of 2017.
The population growth rate of Palestinians in Palestine reached about 2.5% in 2018. In addition the growth rate of the Palestinian population in Israel reached about 2.3% in 2017 while the rate for Jews in historical Palestine was about 1.7% in 2017 PCBS found out.
