Demographics of the State of Palestine

Demographics of State of Palestine
Demographics of State of Palestine
	Population pyramid of the State of Palestine in 2020
Population	3,000,021 (West Bank – 2022 est.); 1,997,328 (Gaza Strip – 2022 est.);
Growth rate	1.69% (West Bank – 2022 est.); 2.02% (Gaza Strip – 2022 est.);
Birth rate	24.42 births/1,000 population (West Bank – 2022 est.); 27.67 births/1,000 population (Gaza Strip – 2022 est.);
Death rate	3.4 deaths/1,000 population (West Bank – 2022 est.); 2.91 deaths/1,000 population (Gaza Strip – 2022 est.);
Language
Spoken	Arabic, Hebrew (by Israeli settlers and many Palestinians)

Demographic features of the population of the area commonly described as Palestinian territories includes information on ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of that population.

According to a commonly used definition as relating to an application of the 1949 Armistice Agreement green line, the Palestinian territories have contributory parts of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian National Authority, the United Nations Security Council, the United Nations General Assembly, the European Union, the International Court of Justice, and the International Committee of the Red Cross use the terminology "Palestinian territories" or "occupied Palestinian territories". Israel refers to the administrative division encompassing Israeli-controlled Jewish-majority civilian areas of Area C of the West Bank, excluding East Jerusalem, as Judea and Samaria Area (Hebrew: אֵזוֹר יְהוּדָה וְשׁוֹמְרוֹן, Ezor Yehuda VeShomron).

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