STATISTICS OF THE WORLD'S JEWISH POPULATION
 
EUROPE

Country
 

Russia in Europe:
Year of Census (or Estimate *) 
Jewish Population
 

Total Population
 

Jewish Percentage of Total Population 
Russia
1905*
4,406,653 1
120,588,000
3.65
Poland
1908
1,716,064 2

6,122,127
12,467,3002

133,055,300
13.762

4.60
   
 
 
 
Austria-Hungary:        
Galicia
1910
871,906
8,029,387
10.85
Bukowina
1910
102,919
800,098
12.86
Rest of Austria
1910
338,862
19,742,449
1.71
Hungary
1910
932,416
20,886,787
4.40
Bosnia-Herzegovina
1910
12,169

2,258,272
1,928,833

51,387,554
0.64

4.39
   
 
 
 
Germany
1910
615,029
64,925,993
0.95
United Kingdom
1914*
270,000 3
45,370,530
0.59
Rumania
1909
170,000 4
7,601,660
3.28
Holland
1911
106,309
6,022,452
1.76
France
1914*
100,000
39,601,509
0.25
Turkey
1914*
95,000 5
1,891,100
5.02
Greece
1914*
90,000 5
4,256,000
2.11
Bulgaria
1914*
50,000 5
4,766,900
1.04
Italy
1911
43,924 6
34,671,371
0.12
Switzerland
1910
19,023
3,741,971
0.51
Servia
1914*
16,000 5
4,624,000
0.34
Belgium
1911*
15,000
7,490,411
0.20
Norway
1910
1,045
2,391,782
0.04
Sweden
1910
3,912
5,604,192
0.06
Denmark
1911
5,164
2,775,076
0.18
Luxemburg
1910
1,270
259,891
0.41
Spain
1910*
4,000
19,943,817
0.02
Poitugal
1911*
1,000
5,957,985
0.01
Gibraltar
1913*
1,300
25,367
5.12
Malta
1913*
60

228,534
  

Total
 
10,068,435
 
0.02
 
 
SUMMARY

Jews in Europe
10,068,435
Asia
525,658
Africa
414,246
America
2,495,805
Australasia
19,415
Grand total
13,523,5591 7
 

 

SOME PREVIOUS ESTIMATES OF THE WORLD'S JEWISH FOPULATION

Authority

Time

Estimated Number

Balbi
1829
 4,000,000
Jost
1846
 3,143,000
I,egoyt
1868
 4,550,000
I. Loeb
1879
 6,276,957
Andree
1881
 6,193,662
Ency. Brit.
1881
 6,170,000
A. Nossig
1887
 6,582,500
J. Jacobs
1896
 9,066,534
I. Harris
1902
10,319,402
A. Ruppin
1904
10,456,000
Jew Encyc.
1905
11,273,076
A. Ruppin
1911
11,558,610
I. Harris
1913
12,134,179
 
1 Estimate of Government Statistical Office (Zeitschrift für Demographie u. Statistik d. Juden, 1911, p.119).

2 Report of Warsaw Statistical Committee (Zeitschrift für Demographie u. Statistik d. Juden, 1911, p.88).

3 This estimate is arrived at by adding together the figures of the Jewish population in all the towns of the United Kingdom, as given in the Jewish Year-Book for 1914, multiplying the number of families (where the population is so stated) by 5, and assuming a minimum population of 30 for towns with a synagogue for which no figure is given. The Jewish population of London is estimated at 160,000 (the estimate of Joseph Jacobs for 1902 was 150,000, Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. viii. p.174).

4 According to the last census in 1899 the Jews in Rumania numbered 266,652, but 55,000 emigrated in the period 1899-1905. It is probable that the population has since been brought up to 170,000 by natural increase.

5 Estimated after the territorial changes caused by the Balkan Wars.

6 Prof. Loevinson's estimate is 45,000. Ost und West, September 1912.

7 The discrepancy between this grand total and that given in the diagram at the end of the book is due to the latter having been prepared before the publication of the latest estimate of the Jews in the Argentine.

 
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