The Israeli Ethiopian community totaled 177,600 people in 2024, according to data shared on Sunday by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics.

Of those, 93,400 (~53%) were born in Ethiopia, and 84,200 (~47%) are native-born.

The CBS moreover noted that 64.6% of the Ethiopian community lives in the Central (37.2%) and Southern districts (27.4%), with Netanya being the city with the largest population, some 13,300 people.

Ethiopian women gave birth to 4,010 babies in 2024. An Ethiopian woman is expected to give birth to 2.54 children on average, according to the government body.

Over the course of 2024, 285 people immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia.

In education, 93.7% of Ethiopian students in 12th grade took the matriculation exams that year, compared with 95.1% among all students in the

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