Distribution
of the Palestinian Population And Jewish Settlers
In the West Bank and Gaza Since 1967
|
Year
|
Palestinians
|
Jews
|
|
|
West
Bank
|
Gaza
|
West
Bank and Gaza
|
|
| 1 Dec. 1967 1 |
604,494
|
380,800
|
-
|
| 1979 |
791,000
|
447,700
|
3,176
(1976)
|
| 1984 |
896,000
|
509,900
|
16,119
(1981)
|
| 1988 |
977,000
|
588,500
|
60,500
(1986)
|
| 1990 |
1,075,531
|
622,016
|
98,750
(1991) 2
|
| 1997 |
1,600,100
3
|
1,001,569
|
165,000
4
|
Source: For Arab data from 1 June 1967-1988, see Profile of the Palestinian People, Chicago and New York. Third edition, 1990, pp.20-21; Jamil Hillal, Dirasat Filastiniyah, No. 4, (Beirut, Lebanon: Institute for Palestine, 1990), pp. 133-52. Data for 1990, see Palestinian Projections for 16 Countries/Areas of the World, op.cit., Table 2. Data on Jewish settlers in the Occupied Territories are taken from Israel’s Settlement Activities, (Jerusalem: Peace Now, 1992), and reprinted in Journal of Palestine Studies, (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992), No. 83, p. 153.
1
Israel Census: 1 December 1967.
2 This figure does not
include the 120,000 Israelis living in occupied East Jerusalem (see Report
on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories, Washington, DC:
Foundation for Middle East Peace, 1991).
3 Source: The Palestinian
Central Bureau of Statistics, Results
of the First Palestinian Census,
September 17, 2000, (21 May 2001)
4 Source: Foundation
for Middle East Peace, Israeli
Settler Population in the West Bank and Gaza, 1990-1998, 10 September
1999, (21 May 2001).