More than 69,000 residents left Israel during 2025

An official Israeli statistic, on Wednesday, showed that more than 69,000 Israeli residents left the country during the year 2025.

The Central Bureau of Statistics (government) stated in a statement: "In 2025, 69.3 thousand Israeli residents left, and 19 thousand residents returned."

It added: "Thus, the net Israeli emigration from Israel at the end of 2025 was negative, reaching negative 50.3 thousand."

It indicated that Israel's population reached approximately 10.1 million people by the end of 2025.

It explained that 76.3 percent of the population (7.7 million) are Jews, 21.1 percent (2.1 million) are Arabs, and 2.6 percent (260 thousand) are foreigners.

It noted that during the year, approximately 182 thousand children were born, 76 percent to Jewish and non-Jewish mothers, and 24 percent to Arab mothers.

It continued: "During 2025, nearly 50 thousand residents died, which is about 2,000 fewer deaths than in 2024."

Israeli media reports attributed the increase in the number of emigrants from Israel to the continuation of the war.

On Wednesday, the "State of the Nation 2025" report issued by the Taub Center for Policy Studies revealed an unprecedented decline in the population growth rate within Israel, due to the continuation of negative migration and declining fertility rates, in a demographic development recorded for the first time since the declaration of the state's establishment on the occupied Palestinian territories in 1948.

The report indicated that Israel incurred a net loss estimated at about 37 thousand people, as a result of the departure of numbers of residents exceeding those coming and returning to it, for the second year in a row.

It pointed to the escalation of what the report described as "reverse migration" of previous immigrants, alongside the increasing departure of Israelis themselves.

The report showed that this decline coincides with a clear decrease in the fertility rate. "Despite the annual number of births appearing relatively stable during the past decade."

These transformations gain particular importance in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, where demography has been one of the pillars of Israeli policies, whether by encouraging Jewish immigration or imposing deportation and restriction policies on Palestinians, in an attempt to maintain a Jewish majority.

In October last month, a Hebrew newspaper quoted a special report for the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) that most of the leavers are educated youth aged between 20 and 39 years, some of whom are immigrants (to Israel) who left shortly after their immigration.

It quoted data from the Central Bureau of Statistics (government) that an average of about 36 thousand people left Israel annually during the period 2009-2021.