24/04/2023: Diagrams 6 & 7 were added to the diagrams list and were replaced in this release.

• At the end of 2022, the Druze population in Israel was approximately 150,000 (preliminary data) – more than a tenfold increase since the founding of the State of Israel (14,500 in 1949).
• At the end of 2021, the localities with the largest population of Druze were Daliyat al-Karmel (17,500) and Yirka (17,300).
• At the end of 2021, children aged 0 to 14 comprised approximately one-quarter (24.2%) of the Druze population. Children make up 27.6% of the Jewish population, approximately one-third (32.7%) of the Moslem population, and approximately one-fifth (20.9%) of the Arab Christian population.
• The growth rate of the Druze population has decreased gradually over the past decade, and in 2021 it was 1.2%.
• The total fertility rate of Druze women in 2021 was 2.00 children on average, as compared with 1.94 in the previous year. 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 2022, approximately 42,000 households – approximately 1.5% of the total number of households in Israel – were headed by a Druze.
• Of them, 81.2% households contained employed persons – a number higher than that of the Moslems (75.4%), and that of the Christians (79.8%).
  
• Of the Druze, 39.8% went on to study for a first degree within eight years of graduating high school, compared with 34.1% among students in Arab education.
• In the 2021/22 academic year, 5,873 Druze students attended all the institutions of higher education in Israel (except for first degree students at the Open University). Their number rose by 1.6% as compared with the previous year (2020/21). From a multi-year perspective, the number of Druze students increased by a factor of 3.6 since the 1999/00 academic year in which 1,600 Druze students attended institutions of higher education in Israel.
• In the 2022/23 school year, 3,633 Druze were employed as teaching staff in the education system, as compared with 3,574 in the 2021/22 school year (an increase of 1.7%).
• During the 2021/22 academic year, there were 183 Druze academic teaching staff at institutions of higher education, compared to 151 during the 2020/21 academic year – an increase of 21.0%.
• In 2021, 22,500 Druze were registered at the Social Service Departments of The Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs.
  The rate of persons registered among the overall Druze population was 152.4 per 1,000 persons, compared with 111.1 per 1,000 persons among the overall population of Israel.
• In the year of verdict 2020, the rate of persons convicted in criminal trials among the Druze population of Israel was about 213 per 100,000. This rate was substantially lower than among residents of Israel overall (about 240 per 100,000 persons).
  The most common offences were: offences against public order (25.6%), morality offences (19.7%) and offences of bodily harm (13.7%).