At the end of 2016 in Israel there were 1.524 million Arab residents, which is 17.7% of the total population of the country. This is reported by the Central Bureau of Statistics of Israel on the eve of the Muslim holiday of Kurban Bayram.
Compared to 2015, the Arab population of the country has grown by 36 thousand people.
In Jerusalem, the largest number of Muslims live - about 320,000, which is 36.2% of the total population of the capital and 21% of the total Arab population in Israel.
The average number of children a Muslim woman gives birth in her life has decreased from 4.7 in 2000 to 3.29 in 2016. The Jewish woman in the same year gives birth to 3.16 children (Christian women - 2.05 children, Druze - 2.21).
35% of the Muslim population are under the age of 14 (534.3 thousand) and only 3.9% - at the age of more than 65 years (59.8 thousand).
The number of unemployed in the working Muslim sector is 6.7%, while in the Jewish, Christian and Druze - 4.6%, 4.4% and 6.2% respectively