Country comparison: Israel / Palestine

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Israel and Palestine. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Israel	Palestine
Region:	Western Asia	Western Asia
Area:	22,070 km²	6,020 km²
Government form:	Parliamentary democracy	Autonomous region
Capital:	Jerusalem	Ramallah

Population

Details for Israel and Palestine

	Israel	Palestine
Population:	9,364,000	4,923,000
Inhabitants/km²:	424.3	817.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 71 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 76 years
Birth rate:	19.70 ‰	28.24 ‰
Death rate:	5.40 ‰	3.82 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.99 ‰	0.00 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Israel	Palestine
Political stability:	56	33
Civil rights:	75	33
Health:	83	69
Climate:	81	78
Cost of Living:	34	79
Popularity:	30	27

Economy

Details for Israel and Palestine

	Israel	Palestine
Currency:	New Israeli sheqel (1 ILS = 100 Agorot)	New Israeli sheqel (1 ILS =100 Agorot)
Unemployment rate:	3.5 %	25.7 %
Inflation rate:	4.39 %	1.24 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	127.85 %	17.65 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	25.30 %	15.30 %
Average income:	49,290 US$	4,220 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	66.16 %	50.38 %
Corruption index:	37 (moderate)	74 (very bad)

	ISR: total	per 1000 inh.	PSE: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	488,527 M US$	52.17 M US$	18,037 M US$	3.66 M US$
Gross national product:	461,515 M US$	49.29 M US$	20,770 M US$	4.22 M US$
Exported goods:	166,098 M US$	17.74 M US$	3,180 M US$	0.65 M US$
Imported goods:	149,189 M US$	15.93 M US$	10,245 M US$	2.08 M US$

Infrastructure

	ISR: total	per 1000 inh.	PSE: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	19,555 km	2.09 km	4,686 km	0.95 km
Passenger airports:	6	0.0006	2	0.0004

Energy balance

Details for Israel and Palestine

	ISR: total	per 1000 inh.	PSE: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	166.38 bn kWh	17.77 m kWh	3.77 bn kWh	765,182.22 kWh
Energy consumption:	59.19 bn kWh	6.32 m kWh	11.41 bn kWh	2.32 m kWh
Energy production:	68.08 bn kWh	7.27 m kWh	1.30 bn kWh	264,005.34 kWh
Energy export:	6.24 bn kWh	666,702.26 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	11.80 bn kWh	2.40 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	62.65 m t	6,690.55 t	3.23 m t	657.01 t

Telecommunication

Details for Israel and Palestine

	Israel	Palestine
International dialing:	+972	+970
Internet domain:	.il	.ps

	ISR total	ISR per 1000 inh.	PSE total	PSE per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,500,000	374	469,741	95
Mobile cellulars:	12,500,000	1335	4,351,660	884
Internet users:	8,439,524	901	3,308,885	672
Broadband Internet:	2,656,753	284	415,492	84

Healthcare system

Details for Israel and Palestine

	Israel	Palestine
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.98	1.20
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.22	0.84
Diabetes:	9.7 %	9.5 %
Tuberculosis:	0.03 ‰	0.01 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	81.0 %	92.0 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Israel and Palestine

	Israel	Palestine
Daytime temperatures:	25.4 °C	28.0 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	15.7 °C	16.0 °C
Rel. humidity:	60 %	68 %
Rain days:	3.2	2.2
Sunshine hours per day:	9.0	8.8

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
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Native languages

	Israel	Palestine
Arabic:	18.0 %	95.9 %
Hebrew:	63.1 %	4.1 %
Russian:	14.0 %	n/a
other:	4.9 %	0.0 %

Religions

	Israel	Palestine
State religion:	none	Sunni Islam
Islam:	19.3 %	91.0 %
Jewry:	74.7 %	7.0 %
Christianity:	2.0 %	1.5 %
other:	4.0 %	0.5 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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