The Central Bureau of Statistics released a report on Christmas Day finding that Christians in the Holy Land increased by 2% in 2021. Christians make up 1.9% of the population, 75.8% being Arab Christians. The report states that the fertility rate for a Christian woman was “an average of 1.77 children per woman, 1.80 in 2019,” with Arab Christian women having “1.68 children per woman.”
From Christian Headlines:
According to the report, the majority of Arab Christians live in Nazareth (21,100), followed by Haifa (16,700), Jerusalem (12,900), and Shefar'am (10,500). Typically, a Christian household has about 3.06 people, which was similar to the size of a Jewish household (3.05) but less than a Muslim household (4.46) “The average number of children up to the age of 17 in Christian families is 1.86,” the report adds. “Of these Christian families, the average number of children up to the age of 17 in Arab Christian families is 1.94 — smaller than the numbers in Jewish families (2.42) and in Muslim families (2.62).”
