🇵🇸West Bank and Gaza

Middle East & North Africa

Lower middle income

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Population

5.4M

2.4%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

3.25

births/woman

Life Expectancy

69.2y

GDP / capita

$3.2K

Pop. Growth

2.33%

Net Migration

-23.2K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in West Bank and Gaza by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇮🇱Israel62.9K(25.1%)

−1%

🇯🇴Jordan59.5K(23.8%)

−3%

🇸🇦

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

No data available

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male2.7MTotal 5.4M2.7MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

0.6

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

Where the West Bank and Gaza diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in West Bank and Gaza who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇯🇴Jordan2.4M(56.2%)

+21%

🇸🇾Syrian Arab Republic615.1K(14.5%)

+24%

🇱🇧Lebanon490.6K(11.6%)

+15%

🇱🇾Libya322.9K(7.6%)

+27%

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia131.8K(3.1%)

+10%

🇪🇬Egypt, Arab Rep.89.2K(2.1%)

−11%

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates54.6K(1.3%)

+50%

🇩🇿Algeria32.2K(0.8%)

+17%

🇹🇷Turkiye24.2K(0.6%)

16×

🇰🇼Kuwait16.5K(0.4%)

+33%

🇮🇶Iraq12.3K(0.3%)

−7%

🇸🇪Sweden9.4K(0.2%)

+182%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024