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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Christmas 2011 - Statistics on Christians in Israel

[Google translation of Central Bureau of Statistics report]

25/12/2011
Christmas 2011 - Christians in Israel

• Christmas Eve in 2011 living in Israel 154.5 thousand Christians, who
constitute 2% of the population of Israel.
• 80.4% of the Christians in Israel are Arab Christians; others mostly are
Christians who immigrated to Israel with their families under the Law of
Return (including children born in Israel). Most of them came in the
nineties with the influx of immigrants from the former USSR.
• The localities with the largest Arab Christian population: Nazareth (
22.2 thousand), Haifa (13.8 thousand), Jerusalem (11.6 thousand), and
Shfaram (9.3 thousand), as of the end of 2010.
• The median age at first marriage of Christian men in 2009 was 29.1, about
a year and a half more than that of Jewish grooms, two years more than that
of the Druze grooms and some three and a half years more than that of Moslem
grooms.
• The average number of children aged up to 17 in Christian families 2.2,
similar to Jewish families (2.3) and lower than Muslim women (3.1).
• The percentage of the civilian labor force participation among Christians
in 2010 aged 15 and over was 58.0% (64.2% for men and 52.0% among women).
• The percentage of unemployed among Christians aged 15 and over was 4.9%
(4.8% among men and 5.1% among women).
• The number of Christian students in primary and secondary is 28.4
thousand, and they constitute 1.9% of all active students. The vast majority
(88.3%) of students are Arab Christians.
• Over the years, Christian Arabs have the highest success rates in
matriculation exams. In 2010 the success rate for Christians in the
matriculation exams was 63% for 12th graders as compared to 46% of Muslims,
55% of Druze and 58% of Jews.
• In 2010 Christians comprised 5.3 thousand students, representing 1.8% of
the total students in all institutions of higher education.
• Arab Christians undergraduate students top field of study is education
(11.4%), followed by BA in Social Science (9.3%).

Selected data on the Christian population (end 2010):
• Christmas Eve in 2011 living in Israel as -154.5 thousand Christians, who
constitute 2% of the population of Israel.
• 80.4% of the Christians in Israel are Arab Christians; others mostly are
Christians who immigrated to Israel with their families under the Law of
Return (including children born in Israel). Most of them came with the
influx of immigrants from the former USSR nineties.
• Most of the Arab Christians live in the north of the country - 71.4% live
in the northern region and 12.7% in the Haifa District. 9.5% live in
Jerusalem.
• non-Arab Christians scattered among the various districts: approximately
39% in the Tel Aviv and Central District, about 34% in the Northern and the
Haifa District, another 14% in the southern region and 11.6% in Jerusalem.
• The localities with the largest Arab Christian population, most are of
Nazareth (c. -22.2 thousand), Haifa (13.8 thousand), Jerusalem (11.6
thousand), and Shfaram (9.3 thousand).
• The largest communities of non-Arab Christian populations are concentrated
in three major cities - Haifa (3.3 thousand), Jerusalem (3.0 thousand) and
Tel Aviv (2.8 thousand).
• The age composition of the Christian population is different from that of
the Muslim population, and is more similar to the composition of the Jewish
population ages. Percentage of young people aged 0-19 is about 30.4%,
similar to that of the Jewish population (33.2%) and lower than that of the
Muslim population (49.7%). Percentage of persons aged 65 and over among all
Christians is 9.8% at the end of 2010 (for comparison - 11.6% among Jews and
3.5% among Muslims).
• The rate of growth of the entire Christian population stands at 0.9% (Arab
Christians - 1% and other Christian - 0.7%), compared to 1.7% in the Jewish
population and to - 2.7% Muslim population.

Marriage and Fertility
• about 758 Christian couples married in Israel in 2009, most of whom are
Arab Christians.
• a median age at first marriage of Christian men in 2009 was - 29.1, about
a year and a half more than that of Jewish grooms, two years more than the
Druze grooms and some three and a half years more than that of Moslem
grooms.
• The median age of first Christian brides was 24.5, a year less than Jewish
brides about three years older than the bride of Druze and four years more
than that of Muslim brides.
• In 2010, 2511 infants were born to Christian women, of whom approximately
79% Arab Christian women (1985 infants).
• This year the number of children a woman Christian is expected to have
during her lifetime at 2.1 children per woman and is now the lowest among
the various religious groups in the country. In comparison, a Muslim woman
is expected to bear 3.8 children during her lifetime, a Jewish woman - 3.0
and Druze - 2.5.
• Of 526 infants born to non-Arab Christian women: 10% were born to women
born in Israel, about 40% were born to women born in the former Soviet
Union, about 15% - women in Ethiopia, about 8% - in the Philippines, about
7% - women born in Romania and the rest were born to women born in other
lands.

Households - Home and Family
• In 2010 there were about 60 thousand households was headed by
Christians(of which 40.8 thousand households of Arab Christians) constituted
about 3% of all households in Israel.
• The average household size is estimated at 3.5 persons, slightly higher
compared with Jewish households (3.1), but much smaller than that of Moslem
households - 5.0 persons.
• Since 1992 the average household size of Christians decreased from 4.2 to
3.5 persons. One factor that changes is the addition of Christians who came
in a wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union that began in the
'90s, a population characterized by relatively small households.
• 68% of households headed by a Christian the Christian is an Arab. The
average size of these households was 3.7 persons.
• 85% (about 52 thousand) of the households of Christian households are
"families" (at least two people), compared to 95% among the Muslims and
about 78% among Jews.
• non-family households, where a person lives alone or the number of people
not related, are about 15% of all Christian households; comparison, among
Jewish households, the percentage of households of non-family households is
1.5 times and is about 22%, whereas among Moslem households is approximately
5%.
• Israel has about 53 thousand Christian families. Half of all Christian
families are couple families with at least one child aged up to 17 Jewish
families in a similar rate (45%) and compared to 71% of Muslim women.
• About 18% of all Christian families consist couples without children, and
about 9% of families are single parent families with children, the youngest
age to 17.
• The average number of children aged up to 17 Christian families with
children up to age it is 2.2, similar to Jewish families (2.3) and lower
than Muslim women (3.1).

Work

• The percentage of the civilian labor force participation among Christians
in 2010 aged 15 and over was 58.0% (64.2% for men and 52.0% among women).
This percentage was among Arab Christians 52.4% (62.1% among men, and 42.7%
for women). For comparison the percentage of the civilian labor force
participation in 2010 among Jews aged 15 and over was 60.6% (62.4% among
Jewish men, and -58.8% among Jewish women.
• The employment rate (percentage of total employed persons aged 15 and
over) among Christians aged 15 and over was 55.1% (61.2% in men and -49.4%
for women). The employment rate among Arab Christians was 50.1% (59.3% for
men and -41.0% for women).
• The percentage of unemployed among Christians aged 15 and over was 4.9%
(4.8% among men and 5.1% among women). This percentage was among Arab
Christians 4.3% (4.5% among men and 4.0% among women). For comparison the
percentage of unemployed among Jews aged 15 and over was 6.5% (6.6% among
men and 6.3% among women).
• Density, Christian households was 1.09 persons per room (1.16 persons per
room in households of Arab Christians). In comparison, the density of
housing in Jewish households was 0.83 persons per room.
• at -48.3 thousand households at least one person was employed (19.4
thousand households had only one employed in 28.9 thousand households had
two or more persons). At 31.5 thousand households Arab Christians at least
one person was employed (by 12.8 thousand households had only one employed
and -18.7 thousand households had two or more persons).

Education - Christian students
Students in elementary and secondary education - primary education
(2011-2010)
• The number of Christian students in primary and secondary - primary is
28.4 thousand, and they constitute 1.9% of all active students. The vast
majority (88.3%) of students are Arab Christians.
• over 2,300 Christian students began first grade in school 2010 - about
1.6% of all first-graders.
• Upper Division of Christian students, 59.8% are on the academic path,
similar to rates among Muslim high school students (58.1%) and lower than
among Jewish high school students (68%).

Matriculation achievements
• Over the years, Christian Arabs have the highest success rates in
matriculation exams. Of Christian 12th graders in the 2010 matriculation
exams 63% passed as compared to 46% of Muslims, 55% of Druze and 58% of
Jews.
• Arab Christians qualify to study higher education at higher rates than
other groups: 56% Christian Arabs, compared to 49% of pupils in Hebrew
Education, 39% of the Druze and 33% of Muslims in 2010 received a
matriculation certificate that meets university entrance requirements and
were potential candidates for further education institutions of higher
education.

Higher Education and Science
Christian students (2009-2010)
• In 2009-2010 5.3 thousand Christian students studied, representing 1.8%
of the total students in all institutions of higher education.
• Christian students, 92.3% were Arabs (4.9 thousand students) and 7.7% were
immigrants who came to the Law of Return (0.4 thousand students).
• Among all the Christian students, 82.7% studied in first-degree, 14.9%
studied for a master's degree and 2.4% studied for a PhD.
• Christian students were 2.0% of all undergraduate students, 1.6% of all
students studying for a master's degree and 1.2% of all doctoral students.
• 54.5% of Christian students, attended universities, 11.0% studied at the
Open University, 21.8% went to college academic and 12.7% attended College
of Education.
• Christian students were 2.4% of all university students, as well as
College of Education. The relative percentage of Christian students of all
students at the Open University and academic colleges was 1.3%.
• 6.4% of students studying at the University of Haifa were Christians (of
which 6.2% of Arab descent). Technion students rate was 5.0% Christian (of
which 4.7% of Arab descent). In contrast, 0.4% of students studying at Ben
Gurion were Christians.
• Of the colleges found that 12.7% of students enrolled at the Academic
Center Caramel were Christians. Safed College 7.6% were Christians. Three
additional colleges found that the relative percentage of Christian students
range from 4% to 6%. In contrast, the rate of ten colleges of Christian
students was less than half a percent.
• Christian students were 14.7% of students studying at the Arabic College
for Education. At the College of Sakhnin for Teacher Education the
proportion of Christians was 9.4%. In addition, three colleges of education
found that the relative percentage of Christian students ranged from 5.0% to
6.0%. In contrast, at eleven academic colleges Christian student represented
less than 0.2% of students.
• 4.4% of the population of all undergraduate students study mathematics and
natural sciences, compared with 10.1% of students in the Arab Christians who
study this field. Percentage of students in medicine, was also higher among
students of Arab Christians versus the total student population (2.5% vs.
0.8%, respectively). In contrast, 17.1% of the population of undergraduate
students learn engineering and architecture, while 12.8% among students of
Arab Christians in this field study. Two other areas with similar
disparities are in business and management (11.3% of all students compared
to 6.5% of Arab Christians students), especially agriculture (0.4% vs. 0.1%
respectively).
• Arab Christians among the students undergraduate students, the top course
of study is education (11.4%), followed by BA in Social Science (9.3%),
nursing (4.8%), economics (4.5%), business (3.7%) , Computer Science (3.7%),
general studies in the humanities (3.5%), electrical engineering (2.7%) and
English Language and Literature (2.5%).
• The median age of students in the Arab Christians first degree students
was 22.3 years, compared with 25.3 years for all students in bachelor's
degree. Arab Christians among the students graduate students, the median age
was 27.9 years, compared with median age of all students in the same title,
which was 30.4 years. Among all students in third degree, the median age was
33.4 years, compared with -32.8 years among Christian Arab students who
study for the degree.
• Of Arab Christian first degree students, women constituted 63.0% versus
55.9% of all students in bachelor's degree. 67.9% Arab Christian students
who are studying for a master's degree were women, compared to -57.9% of all
students in this title. Christian Arab students from PhD students, the
relative percentage of women was 53.8%, compared to -52.7% of all students
in this title.

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