The worldwide Jewish population is 13.3 million Jews.  Jewish population growth worldwide is close to zero percent. From 2000 to 2001 it rose 0.3%, compared to worldwide population growth of 1.4%.

      In 2001, 8.3 million Jews lived in the Diaspora and 4.9 million lived in Israel. Just about half of the world’s Jews reside in the Americas, with about 46 percent in North America.   (top)

      Approximately 37% of worldwide Jewry lives in Israel. Israel's Jewish population rose by 1.6% the past year, while the Diaspora population dropped by 0.5%.

      Europe, including the Asian territories of the Russian Republic and Turkey, accounts for about 12 percent of the total. Fewer than 2 percent of the world’s Jews live in Africa and Oceania. 

      Metropolitan Tel Aviv, with 2.5 million Jews, is the world's largest Jewish city. It is followed by New York, with 1.9 million, Haifa 655,000, Los Angeles 621,000, Jerusalem 570,000, and southeast Florida 514,000.

      In 2001, 8 countries had a Jewish population of 100,000 or more; another 5 countries had 50,000 or more. There is not a single Diaspora country where Jews amounted to 2.5 percent of the total population. Only 3 Diaspora countries had more than 1 percent. Gibraltar (24.0 per 1000), United States (20.1), Canada (11.9), France (8.8), Uruguay (6.7), Argentina (5.3), Hungary (5.2), and Australia (5.1)[1] had the highest ratios.

ESTIMATED JEWISH POPULATION

BY CONTINENTS AND MAJOR GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS:

(Figures rounded of to the nearest 100,000)

The top twelve Jewish populations in the world are:

1.            USA                                                       6,500,000

2.            Israel                                                       4,950,000          

3.            France                                                        600,000           (750,000)

4.            Canada                              (5)                    364,000

5.            Britain                                (6)                    275,000

6.            Russia                    (3/4)                 275,000           (650,000)

7.            Argentina                                       197,000           (250,000)

8.            Ukraine                                                      112,000                      

9.            Germany                                        98,000            (115,000)

10.          Brazil                                  (11)                  97,500           

11.          South Africa                       (12)                  88,000            (65,000)

12.          Hungary                 (10)                  55,000            (100,000)