Arab-Israeli conflict facts, figures, and statistics

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Comparative statistics Israel and Arab countries, with the Netherlands as a comparable index.

Country	Area (1,000s km²)	Population, 2005 est. (millions)	GDP per capita (US$)	Freedom House rating^[1]	Infant mortality (deaths/1000 births)	Total fertility (births/female)	Human Development Index	Military expenses, 2003 est. (billions US$)	Palestinian refugee^[2] (2005)	Jewish exodus^[3] (1948 / 2001)	Jewish population, 2001 est
Netherlands	41.53	16.41	$30862	Free	5.04	1.65	0.943	9.41

Country	Area	Population	GDP per capita	FH rating	Infant mortality	Total fertility	HDI	Military expenses	Palestinian refugees	Jewish exodus	Jewish population
Israel	20.77	7.01	$23416	Free	7.03	2.84	0.915	9.11	276000
West Bank	5.87	2.80	$1500	Partly/Not	19.62	4.90	0.729		665000
Gaza Strip	0.36	1.38	$1000	Partly/Not	22.93	6.42	0.729		923000
Jordan	92.30	5.73	$3500	Partly	17.35	3.29	0.753	1.46	2540000
Lebanon	10.45	3.83	$5000	Partly	24.52	2.05	0.759	0.54	695000	5-20000	100
Egypt	1001.45	77.51	$3600	Not	32.59	3.07	0.659	2.44	70000	75000	100
Syria	185.18	18.45	$3100	Not	29.53	3.95	0.721	0.86	584000	15-30000	100
Iraq	437.07	26.08	$2500	Not	50.25	4.75				135000	200
Yemen	527.97	20.73	$820	Partly	61.50	6.97	0.489	0.89		53000	200
Libya	1759.54	5.77	$8900	Not	24.60	3.64	0.799	1.30		35000	0
Algeria	2381.74	32.53	$5500	Not	31.00	2.72	0.722	2.48		140000	0
Morocco	446.55	32.73	$3500	Partly	41.62	3.05	0.631	2.30		265000	5230
Kuwait	17.82	2.87	$15500	Partly	9.95	3.20	0.844	2.58
Bahrain	0.67	0.69	$13000	Partly	17.72	3.00	0.846	0.63		600	34
Comoros	2.17	0.60	$710	Partly	74.93	5.26	0.547	0.01
Djibouti	23.00	0.48	$1400	Partly	104.13	6.00	0.495	0.03
Mauritania	1030.70	3.09	$1800	Partly	70.89	6.00	0.477	0.02
Oman	212.46	3.00	$8200	Not	19.51	6.00	0.781	0.25
Qatar	10.36	0.86	$21200	Not	18.61	3.00	0.800	0.84
Somalia	637.66	8.59	$550	Not	116.70	7.00		0.02
United Arab Emirates	83.60	4.30	$21100	Not	14.51	3.00	0.849	1.60
Sudan	2505.81	40.19	$1360	Not	62.50	5.00	0.512	0.50
Tunisia	163.61	10.08	$6500	Not	24.77	1.99	0.753	0.36		50-105,000	1000
Saudi Arabia	1960.60	26.42	$10500	Not	13.24	6.25	0.772	18.00	240000
Iran				Not						100000 - 150000	25000
Afghanistan				Partly						5000	1
Pakistan				Not						2000

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[edit] Notes

The UNRWA defines Palestinian refugee as a person "whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948 and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict" and includes their descendants in the male line, as well as persons in need of support who first became refugees as a result of the 1967 conflict. According to the UN Conciliation Commission, the number of Palestinian refugees in 1949 was 711,000 (see also Estimates of the Palestinian Refugee flight of 1948). As of 31 March 2005, there were 4,255,120 Palestinian refugees registered with the UNRWA.^[2]
Approximately two-thirds of 758,000—866,000 of the Jews expelled or who fled from Arab lands after 1948 were absorbed and naturalized by the State of Israel.
Freedom House, while it does not give a rating for singular rating for either the West Bank or Gaza Strip, does provide two ratings for the region based on different division^[1]: the "Israeli-Occupied Territories" is rated "Not Free" and the "Palestinian Authority-Administered Territories" is rated as "Partly Free."
After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, most of the Jewish population in Arab countries fled, were expelled, were coerced by Arab governments, or voluntarily left their homes because of an increasing climate of hostility, with nearly 66% absorbed by Israel (within 1949 armistice lines).
Kuwait expelled most of its 400,000 Palestinian refugees after the 1991 Gulf War.^[4]
The HDI provides an index for the "Occupied Palestinian Territories," meaning both the West Bank and Gaza Strip. List of countries by Human Development Index
Most Palestinian refugees absorbed by Israel receive Israeli citizenship. Most Palestinian refugees in Arab states are not citizens of their host state, nor are their children allowed to be, as regulated by the Arab League.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Freedom in the World 2006 (PDF). Freedom House (2005-12-16). Retrieved on 2006-07-14.
^ ^a ^b Total Registered Refugees Per Country and Area (PDF). United Nations. UNRWA (2005-03-01). Retrieved on 2006-07-14.
^ Jewish Population in Arab Countries 1948-2001. Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa. Retrieved on 2006-07-14.
^ "Abbas apology to Kuwait over Iraq", BBC News Online, 2004-12-12. Retrieved on 2006-07-14.

[edit] Additional resources

Avneri, Arieh (1984). Claim of Dispossession: Jewish Land-Settlement and the Arabs, 1878-1948. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 0-87855-964-7 (p. 276)
page 966 from The Encyclopedia of World History Sixth Edition, Peter N. Stearns (general editor), © 2001 The Houghton Mifflin Company, at Bartleby.com.