At the end of 2021, the Moslem population of Israel was estimated at 1.707 million (18.1% of all residents) – an increase of 35,400 compared with the end of 2020.
The annual growth rate of the Moslem population in 2021 was 2.1% (2.0% in 2020).
Jerusalem had the largest number of Moslem residents (362,000), who comprise 21.2% of all Moslems in Israel, and 37.5% of the city's residents.
The Moslem population is young: The percentage of children aged 0–14 is high (32.6%), and the percentage of people aged 65 and over is low (4.6%).
The percentage of Moslem never-married women aged 45-49 is 11.2%, whereas the percentage of Moslem never-married men aged 45-49 is 4.7%.
The total fertility rate in the Moslem population declined from 3.16 children per woman in 2019 to 2.99 children per woman in 2020, compared with 3.0 children per Jewish woman, 1.85 children per Christian woman, and 1.94 children per Druze woman.
Approximately 28% of the households headed by Moslems have six or more persons, compared with only about 9% of the households headed by Jews.
The life expectancy of Moslems in 2021 was 75.8 years for men and 80.7 for women.
In 2020/21, there were 395,348 Moslem students in primary and secondary education. (Of those students, 6,415 were enrolled in Hebrew education, and the rest were enrolled in Arab education).
In 2019/20, 69.6% of the examinees in Arab education were entitled to a matriculation certificate. The rate of examinees who met university entrance requirements was 51.3% of the examinees in Arab education.
In 2020/21, 10,000 Moslems received an academic degree from institutions of higher education in Israel. The percentage of Moslems among all degree recipients in Israel in that year amounted to 11.9%
The percentage of participation in the labour force in 2021 among Moslems aged 15 and over was 39.3% (51.5% among men and 27.0% among women).
In 2021, approximately 277,000 Moslems were registered at the Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs. About 58,000 Moslems were placed in welfare frameworks in that year.
In 2021, there were 747,492 Moslem drivers (15.7% of all persons licenced to drive), of whom 40.0% were women.
In 2021, 4,874 Moslems were injured in road accidents with casualties of the Expanded R.A. type (24.1% of all casualties). Of these, 92 were killed, 507 were seriously injured and 4,275 were slightly injured.
