Palestinian people
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 12.37 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 State of Palestine |
4,750,000 |
| – West Bank | 2,930,000 |
| – Gaza Strip | 1,880,000 |
 Jordan
|
2,100,000–3,240,000 |
 Israel
|
1,750,000 (60% self-identify as Palestinians according to a 2012 study) |
 Syria
|
526,744 (2011) refugees |
 Chile
|
500,000 |
 Lebanon
|
449,957 (2014) refugees |
 Saudi Arabia
|
400,000 |
 Qatar
|
295,000 |
 United States
|
255,000 |
 United Arab Emirates
|
91,000 |
 Germany
|
80,000 |
 Kuwait
|
80,000 |
 Egypt
|
70,000 |
 El Salvador
|
70,000 |
 Brazil
|
59,000 |
 Libya
|
59,000 |
 Iraq
|
57,000 |
 Canada
|
50,975 |
 Yemen
|
29,000 |
 Honduras
|
150-200,000. |
 United Kingdom
|
20,000 |
 Peru
|
15,000 |
 Mexico
|
13,000 |
 Colombia
|
12,000 |
 Pakistan
|
10,500 |
 Netherlands
|
9,000 |
 Australia
|
7,000 (rough estimate) |
 Sweden
|
7,000 |
 Algeria
|
4,030 |
| Languages | |
|
Palestinian territories and Israel: Palestinian Arabic, Hebrew, English, Neo-Aramaic, and Greek Diaspora: Other varieties of Arabic, the vernacular languages of other countries in the Palestinian diaspora |
|
| Religion | |
|
Majority: Sunni Islam Minority: Christianity, Samaritanism,Druze, Shia Islam, non-denominational Muslims |
|
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Levantines, other Semitic-speaking peoples, Jews (Ashkenazim, Mizrahim, Sephardim), Assyrians, Samaritans, other Arabs, and other Mediterranean peoples. | |
| Country or region | Population |
|---|---|
| Palestinian Territories (Gaza Strip and West Bank including East Jerusalem) | 4,420,549 |
| Jordan | 2,700,000 |
| Israel | 1,318,000 |
| Chile | 500,000 (largest community outside the Arab world) |
| Syria | 434,896 |
| Lebanon | 405,425 |
| Saudi Arabia | 327,000 |
| The Americas | 225,000 |
| Egypt | 44,200 |
| Kuwait | (approx) 40,000 |
| Other Gulf states | 159,000 |
| Other Arab states | 153,000 |
| Other countries | 308,000 |
| TOTAL | 10,574,521 |
The Palestinian people (Arabic: الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha‘b al-Filasṭīnī), also referred to as Palestinians (Arabic: الفلسطينيون, al-Filasṭīniyyūn, Hebrew: פָלַסְטִינִים) or Palestinian Arabs (Arabic: العربي الفلسطيني, al-'arabi il-filastini), are an ethnonational group comprising the modern descendants of the peoples who have lived in Palestine over the centuries, including Jews and Samaritans, and who today are largely culturally and linguistically Arab. Despite various wars and exoduses (such as that in 1948), roughly one half of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in historic Palestine, the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Israel. In this combined area, as of 2005[update], Palestinians constituted 49% of all inhabitants, encompassing the entire population of the Gaza Strip (1.865 million), the majority of the population of the West Bank (approximately 2,785,000 versus close to 500,000 Jewish Israeli citizens which includes about 200,000 in East Jerusalem), and 20.8% of the population of Israel proper as Arab citizens of Israel. Many are Palestinian refugees or internally displaced Palestinians, including more than a million in the Gaza Strip, three-quarters of a million in the West Bank, and about a quarter of a million in Israel proper. Of the Palestinian population who live abroad, known as the Palestinian diaspora, more than half are stateless lacking citizenship in any country. Between 2.1 and 3.24 million of the diaspora population live in neighboring Jordan, over 1 million live between Syria and Lebanon, a quarter of a million in Saudi Arabia, with Chile's half a million representing the largest concentration outside the Arab world.
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