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4.2 million Palestinians in West Bank, Gaza Strip
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- On World Population Day 2011, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics announced that the total population of the Palestinian territory stood at 4.2 million people. Some 2.6 million live in the West Bank and 1.59 million in Gaza, the PCBS report said. Among the other findings: More than one-fifth of participants in the Palestinian labor force are unemployed and 7.8 percent of females are illiterate, a rate more than three times higher than for males.
| The CIA Factbook on Gaza and the West Bank, for comparison purposes. |
World Population Day has been observed every July 11 for two decades as an occasion to draw attention to the significance of population trends and related issues, the UN Population Fund says. This year, the world population is expected to surpass seven billion people.
"Whether we can live together equitably on a healthy planet will depend on the choices and decisions we make now. In a world of 7 billion people, and counting, we need to count each other," the fund said Monday.
Posted by: trailing wife 2011-07-13 |
