Eighty-one years after the Holocaust, the global Jewish population is still short of the 16.6 million estimated to have been alive on the eve of the war in 1939, with Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics reporting ahead of Yom Hashoah that there were 14.7 million Jews worldwide at the end of 2018.
According to the IBS, the global Jewish population is 100,000 short of the 1925 figure, with 45 percent living in Israel (6.7 million). The United States has the second largest Jewish population at 5.7 million, followed by France (450,000) Canada (392,000), the United Kingdom (292,000), Argentina (180,000), Russia (165,000), Germany (180,000) and Australia (116,000).
(JNS)
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The actual number of born Jews since the holocaust have in fact caused the Jewish population to rise above the pre-holocaust numbers. The reason they are counting less Jews today than from before the European holocaust is due to the new postwar holocaust, known as the spiritual holocaust, wrought upon us by the Reform/Conservative movements that have brought mass intermarriages R”L and other secularization causing less and less non-Orthodox Jews to even self-identify as simply being Jewish.