Jewish Population Statistics for 1910 (5 cents)

Thought you would be interested.

In 1915, there were 13,277,542 Jews in the world (apparently, not one more, not one less). Of these:

9,988,197 were in Europe, and 2,500,054 in America. There were 413,259 in Africa, 356,617 in Asia, and 19,415 in Australia.

Of the European Jews, 6,606,415 were in the Russian empire, and 2,258,602 were in Austria-Hungary. There were 615,021 in Germany, 269,015 in Rumania, 245,000 in the U.K., 188,900 in Turkey, 106,000 in the Netherlands, 100,000 in France. Other populations, obviously, were smaller.

In North America, the vast bulk of the population was in the United States, with only 75,681 in Canada, 8,972 in Mexico and 4,000 in Cuba. There were 55,000 in Argentina and 3,000 in Brazil. Only 2500 in the remainder of Latin America.

Asia was 177,500 in Turkish Asia (Ottoman Empire)and 78,000 in Palestine (which was part of Ottoman empire, but calculated separately), 18,000 in Afghanistan, 49,500 in Persia, and 20,980 in India. Iraq was part of Turkish Asia.

In Africa, there were 110,000 in Morocco, 108,500 in Tunisia, 64,000 in Algeria, 38,000 in Egypt, 18,000 in Libya, 25,000 in Ethiopia and 46,700 in South Africa.

This of course was pre-World War I (when political boundaries were shifted) and pre- World War II and the Holocaust.

Today, the Jewish world population is about the same as it was in 1915 (in spite of the 6 million deaths in the Holocaust), but it is not growing much now, largely because of lower birth rates.

Of the approximately 13,000,000 Jews today, almost 5,000,000 are in Israel, and about 6,000,000 in the United States. There are 372,000 in Canada, 185,000 in Argentina, 100,000 in Brazil, 600,000 in France, 300,000 in the U.<., 115,000 in Germany, 80,000 in Hungary, 235,000 in Russia, 115,000 in the Ukrane, 90,000 in South Africa and about 100,000 in Australia. Other Jewish populations are much lower (probably no other is greater than 50,000).

If you look at the migration of this population over the past 90 years, you see that just about everyone has moved. And this is dealing only with international moves. Looking at it as an overall phenomenon, it strikes me as extraordinary.

By the way, moving back further in time (according to something I just saw in the book about Jews still living in Poland in 1985, called "Remnants"), in 1800, 75% of the Jews in the entire world lived in Poland. So the movement was not only a 20th century phenomenon.