SOME RELEVANT STATISTICS
According to the Demograhic Data Sheet produced by the Population Reference
Bureau in Washington DC the population density of Israel is 791 per square
mile as compared with 1365 per square mile for the 'Palestinian Territory'.
Israel has a National Income comparable with that of the countries of
Western Europe.
Palestine is one of the very few countries of the world that does not have
any estimate of National Income. The PRB sheet gives the capital of Israel
as Jerusalem, but does not name any capital for Palestine or even give an
estimate of the urban population (that is given for every other country in
the world). Such imbalances in the information available
help put into perspective the attack on the Palestine Central Bureau of
Statistics.
Israel has a birth rate of 22 per 1000, Palestine a birth rate of 42 per
1000. The PRB estimates that the population of the 'Palestinian Territory'
will exceed that of Israel before 2050.
Ray Thomas, Social Sciences, Open University
Tel: 01908 679081 Fax 01908 550401
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35 Passmore, Milton Keynes MK6 3DY
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