Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics has published a report entitled "the Face of Israel", with a long list of statistical data from about the various different sectors in Israeli Society.
The report includes data on the varying trends in the number of births within different groups in Israel. The Jewish birth rate which was measured at 2.98 - was the highest it has been since 2.53 recorded in 1995. Muslim women in Israel continued to have more children than Jewish women, although the figures showed the birth rate in the Muslim community had fallen to 3.51, down on the 4.71 measured in 2001. The hareidi community is thought to be the major contributing factor to the growing numbers of Jewish births, with the report showing that the hareidi population was proportionally a lot younger than others parts of society, accounting for 14% of Jewish people in the country aged 20 – 29, compared to only 3% of those aged 65 years and up. *Religious identification* The report also published data on the different ways Jewish people in Israel identified themselves religiously. The 2011 figures showed that 43% of the Jewish population defined themselves as secular, 23% as traditional but not religious,14% as traditional and religious, 10% as religious, and 9% as hareidi. The report means that as of 2011, the combined amount of Jews who defined themselves as either religious-traditional, religious or hareidi rose above a third of the total Jewish population for the first time. On Friday, April 4, 2014 1:04:03 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > "Free sex and nickel beer." > > *Governments’ Desperate Efforts to Encourage Childbirth* > > Posted By *Bonnie Ramthun* On April 3, 2014 > > Countries in a demographic crash are getting into the babymaking business, > often with rather hilarious results. In Denmark, a racy new ad campaign > offers an incentive for couples to get pregnant. The Danish birthrate is > about 10 per 1,000 residents in 2013, which is not so much a lack of babies > as a demographic plane crash. This mildly racy Danish ad offers an > incentive of three years of free diapers to couples who get pregnant while > on vacation. > > In Russia where the birthrate is a terribly low > 1.61<http://www.indexmundi.com/russia/total_fertility_rate.html>, > Valdimir Putin established cash payments > <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/vladimir-putin/9739678/Vladimir-Putin-calls-on-Russian-families-to-have-three-children.html>for > > mothers who have three or more children, assuring them of daycare for their > tots so they can “continue in their professional life.” > > Japan’s abysmal birth > rate<http://www.indexmundi.com/japan/total_fertility_rate.html>has led to > only 17 million children in a country of 126 million. The > Japanese government is trying a rather pathetic campaign that insists that > “It’s > fun to have > babies!”<http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/japanese-government-tells-couples-having-babies-is-fun_100190204.html>For > Japan, it may be too late to come back from > self-extinction<http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/11/lack-babies-could-mean-extinction-japanese-people/> > . > > Germany > <http://www.indexmundi.com/germany/total_fertility_rate.html>,Italy<http://www.indexmundi.com/italy/total_fertility_rate.html>, > > Singapore <http://www.indexmundi.com/singapore/total_fertility_rate.html>, > and over a hundred other countries all face a birth rate so low that they, > too, will cease to exist if their populations don’t start reproducing. > Twenty-two Muslim countries and territories have declines in fertility of > 50% or > more<http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-on-the-left/021213-644192-muslim-world-undergoesdownward-fertility-shift.htm>, > > so the declining birthrate is not entirely a Western problem. China > famously instituted a one-child > program<http://geography.about.com/od/chinamaps/a/China-One-Child-Policy-Facts.htm>in > 1979 and their fertility rate is now 1.55, well below replacement rate. > > The United States is at a near-replacement rate of > 2.06,<http://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/total_fertility_rate.html>but > we too face an aging population. We need a program to encourage > childbirth here before we too fall off the demographic cliff. > > Reihan Salam of Slate has a solution: Tax the > childless<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/03/tax_credits_and_children_parents_should_pay_lower_taxes_and_childless_people.html>. > > Let’s “slash taxes on parents by jacking them up for nonparents,” he > argues. I disagree. Adding to the coffers of the federal government via > increased tax rates doesn’t encourage parents to have more children. What > does make sense is Senator Mike Lee’s > proposal<http://www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/family-fairness-and-opportunity-tax-reform>, > > to reform the tax code so parents aren’t contributing twice to senior > entitlement programs. We should also increase the child deduction credit > far beyond the current paltry $1,000 per > child<http://childtaxdeduction.webs.com/> > . > > If Denmark can hand out free diapers, and Russia can give cash payments > for children, why not allow American parents to keep more of their > hard-earned money so they can have that third or fourth child? 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