Editing Demographics of Israel (section)

== Religion ==
{{Main|Religion in Israel}}
{{Religion in Israel chart}}

According to a 2010 [[Israel Central Bureau of Statistics]] study<ref>{{cite news |title=Israel 2010: 42% of Jews are secular |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3890330,00.html |newspaper=Ynetnews |date=18 May 2010 |access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref> of Israeli Jews aged over 18:

{{Pie chart
|thumb= center
|caption= Israeli Jews define themselves as:
|value1= 8 |label1= ''[[Haredi]]m'' (or ultra-Orthodox)
|value2= 12 |label2= "religious" (non-[[Haredi]] Orthodox, also known as: [[dati leumi]]/national-religious or [[Religious Zionism|religious Zionist]])
|value3= 13 |label3= "religious-traditionalists" (mostly adhering to Jewish [[Halakha]])
|value4= 25 |label4= "non-religious traditionalists" (only partly respecting the Jewish Halakha)
|value5= 43 |label5= "secular"
}}

While the ultra-Orthodox, or Haredim, represented only 5% of Israel's population in 1990,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0709/The-other-Israeli-conflict-with-itself |title=The other Israeli conflict: with itself |newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor |date=9 July 2010}}</ref> they are expected to represent more than one-fifth of Israel's Jewish population by 2028.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/at-the-edge-of-the-abyss-1.3538 |title=At the edge of the abyss |newspaper=Haaretz |date=24 November 2009}}</ref> By 2022, Haredim were 13.3% of the population and enumerated 1,280,000.<ref name="corona">{{Cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/04/04/why-covid-19-has-spread-among-israels-ultra-orthodox |title=Why Covid-19 Has Spread Among Israel's Ultra-Orthodox |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |date=4 April 2020 |access-date=2 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Statistical Report on Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel |url=https://en.idi.org.il/haredi/2022/ |access-date=2023-07-14 |website=en.idi.org.il |language=he}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Religious makeup, 2019<ref name="2016-data">{{cite web|url=http://www.cbs.gov.il/reader/shnaton/shnatone_new.htm|title=Statistical Abstract of Israel 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbs.gov.il/reader/shnaton/templ_shnaton_e.html?num_tab=st02_02&CYear=2014|title=Statistical Abstract of Israel 2014 – No. 65 Subject 2 – Table No. 2}}</ref><ref name="population_stat2019" />
|-
! Group || Population || %
|-
| Jews
|align=right| 6,697,000
| {{percentage bar|74.2}}
|-
| Muslims
|align=right| 1,605,700
| {{percentage bar|17.8}}
|-
| Christians
|align=right| 180,400
| {{percentage bar|2.0}}
|-
| Druze
|align=right| 143,000
| {{percentage bar|1.6}}
|-
| Other/unknown
|align=right| 394,900
| {{percentage bar|4.4}}
|}