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| Group | Where | Number of Adherents |
% of total pop. |
Number of congreg./ churches/ units |
Number of countries |
Year | Source | Quote/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopian Jews | Israel | 286 | - | - | - | 1978 | Ross, Dan. Acts of Faith: A Journey to the Fringes of Jewish Identity. New York: St. Martin's Press (1982), pg. 164. | "A census of Israeli Falashas in early 1977 counted only 165 in that country. The only operation even resembling an airlift began later that year... Two planeloads of Falashas arrived: sity-two in August and fifty-nine in December. " |
| Ethiopian Jews | Israel | 318 | - | - | - | 1979 | Ross, Dan. Acts of Faith: A Journey to the Fringes of Jewish Identity. New York: St. Martin's Press (1982), pg. 164-165. | "A census of Israeli Falashas in early 1977 counted only 165 in that country. The only operation even resembling an airlift began later that year... Two planeloads of Falashas arrived: 62 in August and 59 in December... in Jan. 1979... 32 Falasha refugees were brough from neighboring countries. " |
| Ethiopian Jews | Israel | 968 | - | - | - | 1980 | Ross, Dan. Acts of Faith: A Journey to the Fringes of Jewish Identity. New York: St. Martin's Press (1982), pg. 165. | [Adding to a 1979 total of 318] "Finally, emigration resumed on a significant scale. Some 650 Falashas were brought from refugee camps in 1980, and 250 more in the first eight months of 1981. " |
| Ethiopian Jews | Israel | 1,218 | - | - | - | 1981 | Ross, Dan. Acts of Faith: A Journey to the Fringes of Jewish Identity. New York: St. Martin's Press (1982), pg. 165. | [Adding to a 1979 total of 318] "Finally, emigration resumed on a significant scale. Some 650 Falashas were brought from refugee camps in 1980, and 250 more in the first eight months of 1981. " |
| Ethiopian Jews | Israel | 1,200 | - | - | - | 1982 | Ross, Dan. Acts of Faith: A Journey to the Fringes of Jewish Identity. New York: St. Martin's Press (1982), pg. 144. | "Israel's approximately twelve hundred Falashas (as of this writing) are in despair. " |
| Ethiopian Jews | Israel | 15,000 | 0.34% | - | - | 1988 | Bratvold, Gretchen (ed). Israel ...in Pictures (Visual Geography Series). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lerner Publications Co. (1988), pg. 38-39. | "Israel's 4.4 million people... "; Pg. 39: "...Ethiopia. More than 15,000 of Israel's newest immigrants have come from this East African country, in part to escape famine and war. The Ethiopian Jews refer to themselves in the 'Beta Yisrael,' or House of Israel. " |
| Ethiopian Jews | Israel | 48,000 | - | - | - | 1993 | *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: 8/18/93 issue of GLOBAL PRAYER DIGEST); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted.) | SIZE OF GROUP: 50,000. LOCATION: [Mostly Israel] Some still in Ethiopia. There are currently 48,000 Ethiopian Jews living as citizens in Israel. |
| Ethiopian Jews | Israel | 45,000 | - | - | - | 1993 | *LINK* web site: "Ethiopian Jewry " | At the beginning of 1977, fewer than 100 Ethiopian Jews had been grudgingly allowed--by either Ethiopian or Israeli authorities--to settle in Israel. By the end of 1993 the number of immigrants had risen to nearly 45,000! |
| Ethiopian Jews | Israel | 12,500 | - | - | - | 1995 | Haskins, Jim & Joann Biondi. From Afar to Zulu: A Dictionary of African Cultures. New York: Walker Publishing Co. (1995), pg. 61-65. | "Falasha: Population: 25,000; Location: Northern Ethiopia, Israel... Today about half of the Falasha population resides in Israel... " |
| Gush Emunim | Israel | - | - | - | - | 1992 | Ovendale, Ritchie. The Longman Companion to The Middle East since 1914. London & New York: Longman (1992), pg. 280. | "Gush Emunim (Community of Believers): Formed in February 1974 by young Isaeli activists who broke away from the National Religious Party. Membership open to religious and non-religious. Aimed to settle the historic site of the biblical land of Israel. In 1974 and 1975 pioneered unauthorized new settlements in 'Judea', area populated by Arabs. In the 1980s, with some of its members being tried for terrorist offences against Arabs, it became widely regarded as a militant messianic movement. " |
| HaKibbutz HaDatai | Israel | 6,200 | - | - | - | 1978 | "Judaism and Modernization " in Social Forces (Vol. 62:1, Sept. 1983), pg. 10-11, 27. | "...the smallest of the 4 major kibbutz federations in Israel, HaKibbutz HaDati (RKF), the religious Zionist federation..., whose 16 settlements constituted about 5% of the total kibbutzim in Israel in 1982. "; [pg. 27] "In 1978 the total pop. of the RKF settlements was about 6,200. " |
| Hasidic Jews | Israel | 300,000 | - | - | - | 1992 | Marty, Martin E. & R. Scott Appleby. The Glory and the Power: The Fundamentalist Challenge to the Modern World; Boston: Beacon Press (1992), pg. 96. | "Indeed, the 300,000 or so haredim [ultra-Orthodox Jews] who live in Israel (an additional 250,000 are in the Diaspora, with major communities in the United States and Canada) did not migrate there to become part of the Zionist enterprise. " |
| Hasidic Jews | Israel | 3,500,000 | - | - | - | 1993 | *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: 10/16/93 issue of GLOBAL PRAYER DIGEST); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted.) | "The ultra-orthodox Haredim Jews are a sect of the 3.5 million Jews in Israel. " |
| Hasidic Jews | Israel | - | 20.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Ruth, Elaine (of Religion New Service). "Orthodox Youth May Face Draft Into Israeli Military " in Salt Lake Tribune (Saturday, December 12, 1998) | "In Israel's fractious parliamentary political system, ultra-Orthodox [Haredim] parties wield political power beyond their community's size, which has been estimated at less than 20% of Israel's Jewish population. " |
| Hasidic Jews | Israel | - | - | - | - | 1999 | Cahill, Mary Jane. Israel (series: Major World Nations). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers (1999), pg. 69-70. | "Orthodox Jews make up only a small portion of the population. "; Pg. 70: "About 6% of the Orthodox are known as ultra-Orthodox Jews because their views are even more extreme than those of the Orthodox. " |
| Hasidic Jews - Lubavitch | Israel | - | - | - | - | 1948 | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 439. | "Lubavicher movement... Yaakov Yosef (1880-1950), the sixth zaddik... in 1948 helped found a Hasidic settlement, Kfar Habad, in Israel... " |
| Islam | Israel | 400,000 | 8.00% | - | - | 1978 | Welch, Alford T. "Islam " in Hinnells, John R. (ed). A Handbook of Living Religions, Penguin Books: New York (1991) [reprint; 1st published in 1984], pg. 164-165. [Original src: Weeks, R. (ed.), "Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey " (1978).] | Table: "Approximate Muslim populations and percentages of total populations " |
| Islam | Israel | 514,800 | 11.70% | - | - | 1988 | Bratvold, Gretchen (ed). Israel ...in Pictures (Visual Geography Series). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lerner Publications Co. (1988), pg. 38, 40, 48. | "Israel's 4.4 million people... "; Pg. 40: "The Arab population within the 1948 boundaries of Israel constitutes about 15% of the total population. "; Pg. 48: "Of the Arab population, 78% are Muslim, 14% are Christian, and 8% are Druze... " |
| Islam | Israel | 546,000 | 13.00% | - | - | 1988 | Cahill, Mary Jane. Israel (series: Places and Peoples of the World). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers (1988), pg. 9. | "Population: 4,200,000... Religions: Jewish, 83%; Muslim (mainly Sunni), 13%; Christian (mainly Greek and Roman Catholic), 2.5%; Druze and other minority religions, 1.5% " |
| Islam | Israel | - | 14.00% | - | - | 1992 | Goring, Rosemary (ed). Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs & Religions (Larousse: 1994) pg. 581-584. | Table: "Population Distribution of Major Beliefs "; "Figures have been compiled from the most accurate recent available information and are in most cases correct to the nearest 1% " |
| Islam | Israel | 770,000 | - | - | - | 1996 | 1997 Britannica Book of the Year. Pg. 781-783. | Table; includes the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem; excludes the West Bank and Gaza Strip |
| Islam | Israel | 774,854 | 14.00% | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* CIA World Factbook web site (viewed Aug. 1998) | Judaism 82%, Islam 14% (mostly Sunni Muslim), Christian 2%, Druze and other 2%; 1996/97 Total pop: 5,534,672. NOTE: incl. 136,000 Israeli settlers in West Bank, 15,000 in Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, 5,000 in Gaza Strip, & 156,000 in East Jerusalem. |
| Islam | Israel | 690,000 | 13.80% | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 3 - Asia & Oceania. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998), pg. 318, 320. | "Location: Israel; Population: 5 million "; Pg. 320: "Of the 18% who are non-Jews, 77% (or 13.8% of the Israeli population) are Muslim Arabs, most of them Sunni Muslims. " |
| Islam | Israel | - | 14.50% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World) | Table "Religions "; total population: 5,438,000 |
| Islam | Israel | 735,527 | 13.09% | - | - | 1999 | Cahill, Mary Jane. Israel (series: Major World Nations). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers (1999), pg. 55-56. | "Almost all of Israel's non-Jews (about 17% of the population) are Arabs. About 77% of the non-Jews are Muslims; about 14% are Christians; and 9% are Druzes... or members of other religions. " |
| Islam | Israel | 730,470 | 13.00% | - | - | 1999 | Cahill, Mary Jane. Israel (series: Major World Nations). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers (1999), pg. 9. | "Population: 5,619,000... Religions: Jewish, 83%; Muslim (mainly Sunni), 13%; Christian (mainly Greek and Roman Catholic), 2.5%; Druze and other minority religions, 1.5% " |
| Islam | Israel | 357,000 | 6.50% | - | - | 2000 | K. F. Bin Mohd Noor. "Muslims Statistics... for Year 2000 " [orig. src: Barrett. World Christian Encyclopedia, 1982] | Table |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | Israel | 297 | 0.01% | 5 units |
- | 1983 | Botting, Heather & Gary Botting. The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (1984), pg. 53-59. | Table: "1983 Service Year Report of JWs Worldwide "; Adherent count here is from "1983 Peak Publishers " column |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | Israel | 826 | 0.01% | 10 units |
- | 1997 | *LINK* official organization web site | Adherent/member count is for "1997 Peak Witnesses "; Memorial attendance (annual sacrament meeting) for same year: 1,833. |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | Israel | 918 | 0.01% | 11 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* Jehovah's Witnesses official web site; section: "Statistics "; web page: "Worldwide Report " (viewed 16 April 1999). | Table: "1998 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide "; This adherent/member count is for "1998 Peak Witnesses " |
| Jehovah's Witnesses - Memorial attendance | Israel | 600 | - | 5 units |
- | 1983 | Botting, Heather & Gary Botting. The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (1984), pg. 53-59. | Table: "1983 Service Year Report of JWs Worldwide "; Data from columns: "No. of congs. " and "Memorial attendance " |
| Jehovah's Witnesses - Memorial attendance | Israel | 1,833 | 0.02% | 10 units |
- | 1997 | *LINK* official organization web site | From 1997 Statistics "Memorial attendance " column. Count of all who attend this once-a-year meeting, whether or not a "publisher " in full standing. Most would be considered adherents. |
| Jehovah's Witnesses - Memorial attendance | Israel | 1,907 | 0.02% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Jehovah's Witnesses official web site; section: "Statistics "; web page: "Worldwide Report " (viewed 16 April 1999). | Table: "1998 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide "; "Memorial attendance " column indicates attendance at yearly communion meeting. |
| Jerusalem Jesus Movement | Israel | - | - | - | - | 40 C.E. | Occhiogrosso, Peter. The Joy of Sects: A Spirited Guide to the World's Religious Traditions. New York: Doubleday (1996), pg. 295-296. | "Scholars still debate the exact identity of the authors of the [Dead Sea] scrolls: one authority feels they were not Essenes but Sadducees, another claims they are related to the teachings of James, the brother of Jesus, who led the Jerusalem Jesus Movement. " |
| Jerusalem Jesus Movement | Israel | - | - | - | - | 60 C.E. | Occhiogrosso, Peter. The Joy of Sects: A Spirited Guide to the World's Religious Traditions. New York: Doubleday (1996), pg. 298-299. | "The spread of Christianity was facilitated by the ease of travel in the Mediterranean of that era--aided ironically by the strong Roman military presence and the Romans' well-maintained system of roads. Paul made countless proselytizing journeys around the Mediterranean rim, establishing and overseeing communities of Christians. The Jerusalem Jesus Movement headed by James thrived for a time alongside Pauline Christianity. But it faded out shortly and was subsumed by the followers of Paul, whose more Hellenized and universalist version of Christianity is the one that converted Rome and prevailed in the West. " |
| Jewish - ethnic | Israel | 4,100,000 | - | - | - | 1991 | Halverson, Dean C. (ed.) The Compact Guide to World Religions; Colorado Springs, Colorado: International Students Inc. (1996). [Publisher is an Evangelical missionary organization.] Pg. 121. | "The 1993 American Jewish Yearbook gives the following population statistics as of 1991: Of the 12.8 million Jews, 4.1 million are in Israel, 6.3 million in North and South America, and 868,000 in the former Soviet Union. " |
| Jews of Cochin | Israel | 2,250 | - | - | - | 1982 | Ross, Dan. Acts of Faith: A Journey to the Fringes of Jewish Identity. New York: St. Martin's Press (1982), pg. 194. | "The Jews of India are a varied lot, divided into distinct communities... When India's Jewish population was at its greatest (during the mid-1940s), Bene Israel made up two-thirds of its approximately thirty thousand Jews. The others fell into equally well-defined categories: --The Jews of Cochin, on India's southwest coast... Cochin never lost contact with the rest of the Jewish world, as did the Bene Israel, so their identity was never challenged. More than 90% of Cochin's 2,500 Jews have moved to Israel. " |
| Judaism | Israel | 7,000 | - | - | - | 1830 | Palmer, Spencer J. & Roger R. Keller. Religions of the World: A Latter-day Saint View, Brigham Young University: Provo, Utah (1990), pg. 148. [Orig. source: "American Jewish Yearbook " (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1987). | Table: "World Jewish Population " |
| Judaism | Israel | 80,000 | - | - | - | 1920 | Palmer, Spencer J. & Roger R. Keller. Religions of the World: A Latter-day Saint View, Brigham Young University: Provo, Utah (1990), pg. 148. [Orig. source: "American Jewish Yearbook " (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1987). | Table: "World Jewish Population " |
| Judaism | Israel | 420,000 | - | - | - | 1939 | Palmer, Spencer J. & Roger R. Keller. Religions of the World: A Latter-day Saint View, Brigham Young University: Provo, Utah (1990), pg. 148. [Orig. source: "American Jewish Yearbook " (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1987). | Table: "World Jewish Population " |
| Judaism | Israel | 720,000 | - | - | - | 1948 | Palmer, Spencer J. & Roger R. Keller. Religions of the World: A Latter-day Saint View, Brigham Young University: Provo, Utah (1990), pg. 148. [Orig. source: "American Jewish Yearbook " (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1987). | Table: "World Jewish Population " |
| Judaism | Israel | 1,500,000 | - | - | - | 1957 | Welles, Sam. The World's Great Religions, New York: Time Incorporated (1957), pg. 133. | "...Jews, a people which today numbers an estimated 11.8 million throughout the world--more than 5 million in the U.S., 1.5 million in Israel. " |
| Judaism | Israel | 1,500,000 | - | - | - | 1958 | Welles, Sam. The World's Great Religions, New York: Western Publishing Co. (1972). [11th printing; original edition: 1958]. Pg. 100. | "Today there are an estimated 11.8 million Jews throughout the world--more than 5 million in the U.S. and 1.5 million in Israel. " |
| Judaism | Israel | 3,360,000 | - | - | - | 1970 | Carmody, Denise Lardner & John Tully Carmody. Western Ways to the Center: An Introduction to Western Religions; Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co. (1983), pg. 55. [Orig. source: Jacob A. Argus, "Judaism " in "Historical Atlas of the Religions of the World "; ed. I. al Faruqi. New York: Macmillan (1974), pg. 156.] | "As of 1970, about 44% of the world's 14 million Jews lived in the U.S. Only 24% lived in Israel... 18% resided in the Soviet Union... " |
| Judaism | Israel | 2,500,000 | - | - | - | 1970 | Cavendish, Richard (ed.). Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (vol. 11). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1970), pg. 1530. | "It has been estimated that there are around 12 million Jews in the world today, 5 million in the United States, 2 1/2 million in the state of Israel... " |
| Judaism | Israel | 2,500,000 | - | - | - | 1970 | Palmer, Spencer J. & Roger R. Keller. Religions of the World: A Latter-day Saint View, Brigham Young University: Provo, Utah (1990), pg. 148. [Orig. source: "American Jewish Yearbook " (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1987). | Table: "World Jewish Population " |
| Judaism | Israel | 2,700,000 | - | - | - | 1975 | Anderson, Norman (ed.). The World's Religions; Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (1989). [1st pub. in 1950. 4th ed., completely revised, pub. 1975.] (Article: "Judaism " by H. D. Leuner.) Pg. 88. | "Of the seventeen million Jews who lived in 1933, hardly eleven million survived the holocaust. Their numbers have since increased to 14.370 million, of whom some six million live in the USA and 2.7 million each in Israel and the USSR. " |
| Judaism | Israel | 3,000,000 | - | - | - | 1977 | Bermant, Chaim. The Jews. New York: NY Times Books (1977), pg. 241. | "About half of Israel's three million Jews can trace their origins to the same area [Russian Pale]... " |
| Judaism | Israel | 3,250,000 | - | - | - | 1979 | Palmer, Spencer J. & Roger R. Keller. Religions of the World: A Latter-day Saint View, Brigham Young University: Provo, Utah (1990), pg. 148. [Orig. source: "American Jewish Yearbook " (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1987). | Table: "World Jewish Population " |
| Judaism | Israel | 3,135,000 | - | - | - | 1981 | Unterman, Alan. "Judaism " in Hinnells, John R. (ed). A Handbook of Living Religions, Penguin Books: New York (1991) [reprint; 1st published in 1984], pg. 25. | Map: "Figure 1.4: Main centres of Jewish population, 1981 " |
| Judaism | Israel | - | 85.00% | - | - | 1983 | Charing, Douglas. The Jewish World. London, UK: Silver Burdett Co. (1983), pg. 38. | "Most of Israel's citizens are Jews, but 15% of them are non-Jews, and that includes Muslims, Christians, Samaritans, Druze and Baha'i. " |
| Judaism | Israel | 3,000,000 | - | - | - | 1983 | Hopfe, Lews M. Religions of the World, Macmillan Publishing Co.: New York (1983) [3rd edition], pg. 356. | "Recent statistics estimate that there are 14,435,900 Jews in the world. Three million are in Israel; 2,620,000 are in Russia; and 5,870,000 are in the United States. " |
| Judaism | Israel | 3,470,000 | - | - | - | 1984 | Palmer, Spencer J. & Roger R. Keller. Religions of the World: A Latter-day Saint View, Brigham Young University: Provo, Utah (1990), pg. 148. [Orig. source: "American Jewish Yearbook " (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1987). | Table: "World Jewish Population " |
| Judaism | Israel | 3,000,000 | - | - | - | 1984 | Unterman, Alan. "Judaism " in Hinnells, John R. (ed). A Handbook of Living Religions, Penguin Books: New York (1991) [reprint; 1st published in 1984], pg. 21. | "Today there are nearly 14 1/2 million Jews in the world. The biggest demographic concentration is in the U.S.A., with just over 6 million Jews, followed by the State of Israel (over 3 million), and then by the Soviet Union (just under 3 million). " |
| Judaism | Israel | 3,599,472 | 82.00% | - | - | 1987 | *LINK* Library of Congress Country Studies | Officially estimated in October 1987 at 4,389,600 [total pop.], of whom about 82 percent Jews. Substantial Sunni Muslim (about 77 percent of non-Jewish population) and smaller Christian and Druze communities also present. |
| Judaism | Israel | - | 83.33% | - | - | 1987 | Taitz, Emily & Sondra Henry. Israel: A Sacred Land (series: Discovering Our Heritage). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Dillon Press (1987), pg. 15. | "One out of every six citizens of Israel is a non-Jew. " |
| Judaism | Israel | 3,740,000 | 85.00% | - | - | 1988 | Bratvold, Gretchen (ed). Israel ...in Pictures (Visual Geography Series). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lerner Publications Co. (1988), pg. 38. | "Comprising a minority of the population upon independence in 1948, Jews now make up about 85% of Israel's 4.4 million people... " |
| Judaism | Israel | 3,486,000 | 83.00% | - | - | 1988 | Cahill, Mary Jane. Israel (series: Places and Peoples of the World). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers (1988), pg. 9. | "Population: 4,200,000... Religions: Jewish, 83%; Muslim (mainly Sunni), 13%; Christian (mainly Greek and Roman Catholic), 2.5%; Druze and other minority religions, 1.5% " |
| Judaism | Israel | 3,933,900 | 90.00% | - | - | 1990 | Jones, Helen Hinckley. Israel (series: Enchantment of the World). Chicago: Childrens Press (1986), pg. 114-115. | "Religion: Jews make up about 90% of the people of Israel... Population: 4,371,000 (1990 estimate)... " |
| Judaism | Israel | - | 82.00% | - | - | 1992 | Goring, Rosemary (ed). Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs & Religions (Larousse: 1994) pg. 581-584. | Table: "Population Distribution of Major Beliefs "; "Figures have been compiled from the most accurate recent available information and are in most cases correct to the nearest 1% " |
| Judaism | Israel | 3,000,000 | - | - | - | 1992 | Ovendale, Ritchie. The Longman Companion to The Middle East since 1914. London & New York: Longman (1992), pg. 219. | "Around 6 million of the world's Jews live in the U.S. and over 3 million in Israel. " |
| Judaism | Israel | 3,618,000 | - | - | - | 1993 | Johnstone. Operation World. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1993, p. 23. | "Jews... 13.4 million... Nearly 27% of Jews now live in Israel - increasing rapidly with immigration from the former USSR. " |
| Judaism | Israel | 3,500,000 | - | - | - | 1993 | Kertzer, Morris N. & Lawrence A. Hoffman. What is a Jew (New & Completely Revised Ed.); New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. (1993), pg. xxix. | "It is estimated that the entire world's Jewish population is somewhere in the region of 13 million, with 6 million in the U.S. & Canada, 3.5 million in Israel, and (until 1990) up to 3 million in Russia & eastern Europe. " |
| Judaism | Israel | - | 81.90% | - | - | 1993 | O'Brien, J. & M. Palmer. The State of Religion Atlas. Simon & Schuster: New York (1993). Pg 28-29. | map: 819 out of 1000 |
| Judaism | Israel | 4,200,000 | - | - | - | 1993 | *LINK* web page: "Judaism: Numbers and Distribution "; web site: "Supporting Materials: Culture " (Slippery Rock Univ., PA). (viewed 31 Aug. 1999). Last Revised: 10-25-95 | "Judaism... 1900 -- 12 million (0.8% of world); 1993 -- 18.2 million (0.3% of world); Diaspora; Israel (4.2 million Jews) " |
| Judaism | Israel | 3,500,000 | - | - | - | 1994 | Lindsey, Hal. Planet Earth - 2000 A.D.. Palos Verdes, California: Western Front, Ltd. (1994), pg. 147. | "The Jewish state is less than half the size of San Bernardino County in California. Its Jewish population is about 3.5 million--roughly the size of Iowa. " |
| Judaism | Israel | 4,500,000 | 80.00% | - | - | 1995 | Breuilly, Elizabeth, et al. Religions of the World: The Illustrated Guide to Origins, Beliefs, Traditions & Festivals. Facts on File Inc.: New York, NY (1997). Pg. 41. | 1995 Chart and text: "nearly 4.5 million Jews in Israel, where they make up over 80% of pop., although the largest group lives in North America (over 6 million). " Numbers represent self-identified religious Jews. |
| Judaism | Israel | 4,400,000 | - | - | - | 1995 | *LINK* web site: "United Church of Canada Inter-Faith Dialogue "; web page: "Judaism " (viewed 19 Feb. 1999), written by Fritz B. Voll, "Updated: Tue Jun 9 23:39:36 1998 " | "According to 1995 figures there are close to 14 million Jews in the world, of which 5.8 million live in the United States, 4.4 million in Israel. Canada has the sixth largest population of Jews with 360,000, after France, Russia, and Ukraine. " |
| Judaism | Israel | 4,470,000 | - | - | - | 1996 | 1997 Britannica Book of the Year. Pg. 781-783. | Table; includes the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem; excludes the West Bank and Gaza Strip |
| Judaism | Israel | 4,648,000 | 83.00% | - | - | 1996 | Russell, Malcom B. The Middle East and South Asia 1997 (The World Today Series). Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: Stryker-Post Publications (1997), pg. 118. | Estimates of % of population in principal religions, & est. 1997 total pop. |
| Judaism | Israel | 4,390,000 | - | - | - | 1997 | Ash, Russell. The Top 10 of Everything, DK Publishing, Inc.: New York (1997), pg. 160-161. | List: "Top 10 Largest Jewish Populations in the World "; (Rank: 2) |
| Judaism | Israel | 4,352,000 | - | - | - | 1997 | Breuilly, Elizabeth, et al. Religions of the World: The Illustrated Guide to Origins, Beliefs, Traditions & Festivals. Facts on File Inc.: New York, NY (1997). Pg. 10-11. | "There are 12.8 million Jews living worldwide. Almost 47% live in North America, 34% in Israel, and 14% in Europe and Russia. " |
| Judaism | Israel | 4,538,431 | 82.00% | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* CIA World Factbook web site (viewed Aug. 1998) | Judaism 82%, Islam 14% (mostly Sunni Muslim), Christian 2%, Druze and other 2%; 1996/97 Total pop: 5,534,672. NOTE: incl. 136,000 Israeli settlers in West Bank, 15,000 in Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, 5,000 in Gaza Strip, & 156,000 in East Jerusalem. |
| Judaism | Israel | 4,354,900 | - | - | - | 1998 | Ash, Russell. The Top 10 of Everything 1999. New York: DK Publishing (1998), pg. 77. | Table: "Top 10 Largest Jewish Populations in the World "; Rank: #2 |
| Judaism | Israel | 4,200,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 2 - Americas. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998), pg. 266. | "The United States is home to 5.8 million Jews, the largest Jewish population found in any single country and nearly half the world's 14 million Jews. (The next largest concentration of Jews -- 4.2 million -- is found in Israel... " |
