How many jews in world pre and post ww2?
After the loss of six million during the Shoah [Holocaust], the world Jewish population was estimated at 11 million in 1945. It took about 13 years to add one million Jews to the post-Shoah total, but the next 45 years were not enough to add a second million: World Jewry was estimated at 12,948,000 in 2003. Zero population growth reflects mostly negative balances between Jewish births and Jewish deaths, and between accessions to and secessions from Judaism. Low “effectively Jewish” birthrates also reflect widespread out-marriages and low propensities to identify the majority of the respective children as Jews. In Israel, Jews have constituted a solid majority of the total population since 1948, while Jews in other countries constituted small minorities in their respective environments. Israel’s Jewish population steadily increased from approximately half a million in 1945 and one million in 1950 to over 5.1 million in 2003.
