RAMALLAH, Dec 31 (NNN-WAFA) – The number of Palestinians living in the Palestinian territories, Israel and abroad, amounted to about 14 million by the end of this year, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said yesterday.
Among the 14 million Palestinians, 5.3 million live in the Palestinian territories, 1.7 million in Israel, and over seven million abroad, the PCBS said in a report.
In the Palestinian territories, 3.2 million live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, while 2.1 million in the coastal enclave of the Gaza Strip.
Of the seven million Palestinians living abroad, 6.3 million live in Arab countries and about 750,000 elsewhere.
The PCBS report said that, more than one-third of the total Palestinian population are under 15 years of age.
There was a decrease in the percentage of individuals aged 65 years and over, which is estimated at about three percent in the Palestinian territories, at the end of this year.
The number of schoolchildren for the current academic year reached 1,338,353, in the Palestinian territories, of whom 665,294 are male and 673,059 female.
Israel demolished or destroyed 975 buildings in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 2021, and about 30 percent of the destroyed buildings were in East Jerusalem, the report said.
More than 700,000 Israeli settlers live in 151 settlements, established on Palestinian lands in the West Bank, it said, adding that, the number of Palestinians imprisoned in Israel reached about 4,650.
