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At the end of 2019, the Druze population in Israel was approximately 145,000 (preliminary data) - roughly a tenfold increase since the founding of the State of Israel (14,500 in 1949).
At the end of 2018, the localities with the largest population of Druze were Daliyat al-Karmel (16,900) and Yirka (16,700).
At the end of 2018, children aged 0 to 14 comprised approximately one-quarter (25.7%) of the Druze population. Children make up 27.6% of the Jewish population, approximately one-third (33.8%) of the Moslem population, and approximately one-fifth (21.6%) of the Christian population.
The total fertility rate[1] of Druze women in 2018 was 2.16 children on average, as compared with 2.10 in the previous year. Despite this increase, the total fertility rate among Druze women has been declining since the mid-1960s. The peak in fertility - 7.92 children per woman - was measured in 1964. In 1990, the rate was 4.05 children per woman. The rate in 2000 was 3.07, and in 2010 it was 2.47.
In 2019, approximately 39,000 households - approximately 1.4% of the total number of households in Israel - were headed by a Druze. Of them, 82.6% households contained employed persons - a number higher than the Moslems (77.8%) and the Christians (76.6%).
[1]The total fertility rate: The average number of children that a woman is expected to bear during her lifetime.
