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According to the TIME/Britannica 2010 Almanac, presenting figures as of mid-2009,
people who identified themselves as adherents of Judaism, whether practicing or
not, amounted to 13.9 million worldwide, in 135 countries, and totaled 0.2% (two
tenths of one percent) of the world's population. Israel is the only country in the
world where adherents to Judaism comprise a majority of the population.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agoAccording to data the last three times statistics were available, Adherents.com shows the Jewish population in Ethiopia as follows: (1959) 32,000 - (1990) 14,000 - (1998) 500. There is either no available data for 2009 or the stats are now negligible to none.
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∙ 7y agoThere are two major parts of this question. The first is how many people are Jews. The second is how many of those Jews are religious. Judaism is both an ethnic group and a religion, so a person can be ethnically Jewish without being religiously Jewish and vice versa.
PART 1: How Many Jews
There are roughly 14 million Jews in the world of which 40% live in Israel and another 40% live in the United States. Some more detailed estimates are below.
Estimate 1: 2009 - Time Almanac
According to the TIME Almanac 2009: As of mid-2008: -- The world Jewish population was estimated at 15.1 million in 135 countries, -- amounting to about 0.2 percentof world population.
Estimate 2: 2010 - Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics
14,993,000 Jews worldwide in 2010, info acquired from Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.
Estimate 3: 2010 - Time Almanac
According to the TIME/Britannica Almanac 2010, Annual Megacensus of Religions, p. 508, figures as of mid-2009:
Africa: . . . . . . . . . . . 130,000
Asia: . . . . . . . . . . 5,865,000
Europe: . . . . . . . . 1,847,000
Latin America:. . . . . 930,000
Northern America: 5,668,000
Oceania: . . . . . . . . . 109,000
Number of countries: 138
World: . . . . . . . . 14,549,000
Fraction of world population: 0.2 percent (that's 1/5th of one percent)
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Somewhere in the region of 13,156,500 About six million live in the United States, six million live in Israel, and the rest are scattered about the world.
This is much, much lower than the figure for Christians and Muslims.
PART 2: How Many Practice
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All estimates since the 1990s have placed the total population of self-identified
adherents of Judaism worldwide near 0.2% (two tenths of one percent) of the
world's total population. That figure represents individuals and communities who name Judaism as the system with which they prefer to be identified. The number that actively 'practice' is a far more complex question.
The bulk of the Jewish population is Secular or Culturally Jewish. Only around 2.1 million Jews are Orthodox.
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In Israel, observant Jews number around 2 million, or about one-third of the Jewish population. Because of the high Birth Rate among Orthodox and Haredi Jews, the Jewish population of Israel is expected to increase, along with a rising proportion of observant Jews.
Outside Israel, the proportion of observant Jews is less certain and could be as high as one-half of those who identify as Jews - so that around 4 million may practise Judaism outside Israel. Intermarriage and a low birth rate are expected to result in a rapidly falling Jewish diaspora population, but a high birth rate among Orthodox Jews could result in a long-term increase in the proportion of that smaller population who practise Judaism.
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∙ 8y agoAs of 2017, there are about 14 million Jews.
Israel.......... 6,460,000
America....... 5,400,000
France......... 465,000
Canada........ 385,000
United Kingdom 270,000
Argentina.... 205,000
Russia........ 185,000
Australia...... 112,500
Germany......100,000
Brazil............ 95,000
South Africa.. 70,000
Ukraine......... 63,000
Mexico.......... 53,000
Hungary........ 48,000
Belgium........ 30,000
Spain.............30,000
Holland......... 29,900
Poland...........25,000
Italy.............. 28,000
Switzerland..19,000
Chile............. 18,500
Turkey...........17,200
Sweden.........15,000
Uruguay........14,500
Belarus..........11,500
Panama, Romania, Austria...10,000 each
All other countries, combined.... 125,000.
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There are an estimated 140,000 to 150,000 Ethiopian Jews living in Israel today, making up a significant portion of the Ethiopian-Israeli population.
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∙ 16y agoid say somewhere in the 14 million ish dunno exactly
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∙ 9y agoAbout 14 million, not all of them religious.
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∙ 12y agoSeveral tens of thousands.
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How many Jews live in the US today?
As of 2011, there are about six million Jews in the U.S.
How many Jews are there in Iraq today?
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How many Messianic Jews are there in Israel?
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It it true Ethiopian Jews came from tribes that even the Ultra-Orthodox Jews didn't know about?
No, there were and are 12 tribes. The Ethiopian Jews are believed to be descended from Jews who traveled throughout Africa.
Does this mean that Israel Jews have ethiopian blood?
Ethiopian blood only comes from Ethiopians.
What was the name given to Ethiopian Jews?
falashas
What has the author Omri Tegamlak Avera written?
Omri Tegamlak Avera has written: 'Asterai' -- subject(s): Ethiopian Jews, Fiction, Jews, Ethiopian
Where all the Jews rescued in Ethiopia?
Sadly, no. Some Ethiopian Jews remain in Ethiopia.
Why did Ethiopian Jews have to go through a special conversion to be recognized as Jews in Israel?
The conversion ritual required of Ethiopians relates to doubts about their identity. The "Jewishness" of the Ethiopian Jews has been called into question, although to talk about this today in Israel would be considered very politically incorrect, since Ethiopian Jews have been accepted and integrated into Israeli society. Ultimately, the rabbis decided that they were "real" Jews, but not without controversy. For one, many if not most of the Ethiopian Jews had converted (or perhaps been forced to convert) to Christianity. Power in Ethiopia has been split between Christians and Muslims over much of the last 500 years, and many Jews had to choose sides, while retaining what are often described as "primitive" Jewish traditions. So what remains of the ritual is there ostensibly to cleanse the taint of other religions. But really, the ritual can most accurately be described as a compromise between a minority of rabbis who don't believe that Ethiopians are "real" Jews, and a majority that has accepted them. The minority - which again is espousing a sort of right-wing view, with the usual issues (and keeping in mind the issue of race, always in the background) - cites modern DNA evidence that conclusively proves that Ethiopian Jews are genetically related to Ethiopians, not Jews, and thus the unlikelihood of the traditional history that identifies Ethiopian Jews as the descendants of the lost tribe of Dan (or alternatively, the offspring of a mating between King Soloman and Queen Sheeba, undocumented in the Bible but an oft-repeated legend in the Ethiopian historical canon). Despite this controversy, the Ethiopians have status as Jews since 1973 in Israel and almost all 120,000 of them now live there, where they are well-integrated. The ceremony is a last vestige of more draconian requirements from the past (involving ritual circumcisions), and will likely fade into history as about a third of Ethiopian Jews alive today were born in Israel.
Are ethiopian Jews the oldest known Jews?
NO. The Ethiopian Jewish community is relatively old, but not older than the communities that trace their lineage back to places in the Middle East (like Iraq, Iran or Egypt).
What has the author Reuben Kashani written?
Reuben Kashani has written: 'Anuse Mashhad' -- subject(s): Jews, Ethnic relations 'The Jews of Afghanistan' -- subject(s): Jews, History 'Yerushalayim' -- subject(s): Description and travel 'ha- Falashim : korot masorot u-minhagim' -- subject(s): Ethiopian Jews, Jews, Ethiopian
What do Jews have to go to Jews registration?
Jews who decide to live in Israel have officials take information about them, and there were lost tribes of Ethiopian Jews who needed to undergo special conversions to be recognized as Jews.
Are ethiopians Jews?
Some of them are. The Falasha of Ethiopia self-identify as Jews and have many Jewish traditions. There's plenty of evidence of small groups of Jews fleeing south into Africa after various disruptions. The Lemba, a group spread across southern Africa, has both oral history and genetic arguments to show that they are connected to a group of Yemenite Jews who fled south during a war in that region. The Ethiopian community is older, its folklore is less clear, but they have more Jewish traditions.There are some who hold that Ethiopia as a whole was Christianized and that today's Ethiopian Jews originated as a Judaizing sect of Christians. The Falasha reject this theory out of hand.
How many Jews live in the US today?
As of 2011, there are about six million Jews in the U.S.
Does Ethiopia have Africa's largest Jewish population?
yes because queen Sheba who is Ethiopian married king Solomon and now Lot's of Ethiopian Jews live in Israel
