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On the eve of Christmas 2023, approximately 187,900 Christians live in Israel; they comprise about 1.9% of the State of Israel's population. The Christian population grew by 1.3% in 2022.
75.3% of the Christians in Israel are Arab Christians. They constitute 6.9% of the total Arab population of Israel.
Most of the Arab Christians reside in the Northern District (70.2%) and in the Haifa District (13.6%).
38.7% of the non-Arab Christians reside in the Tel Aviv and Central Districts, as compared to 36.5% in the Northern and Haifa Districts.
The localities with the largest Arab Christian populations are Nazareth (20,800), Haifa (16,800), Jerusalem (13,000), and Shefar'am (10,600).
815 Christian couples married in Israel in 2021. The average age at the first marriage of Christian grooms was 30.7, and that of Christian brides was 27.4. These ages are higher than the average marriage ages among the other religions, for both grooms and brides.
In 2022, 2,343 infants were born to Christian women, about 73% of whom (1,704 infants) were born to Arab Christian women.
In 2022, the total fertility rate of a Christian woman was an average of 1.68 children per woman. The number of children per Arab Christian woman was lower still, at 1.62 children per woman.
