The worldwide Jewish population experienced a marked decline during the 20th century due to the murder of six million Jewish people during the Holocaust, the genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its allies during World War II. While there were almost 17 million Jewish people alive before the Holocaust, or the Shoah as it is known in Hebrew, after the war this was only around 11.5 million people.
By using several different fertility scenarios, demographers have been able to reconstruct what the Jewish population would be in modern times if the genocide of Jewish people had not happened. In scenarios where there was a low or very low fertility rate, the Jewish population in 2000 would be in the range of 26 to 33 million people, double what it was in reality. In a scenario where the population growth rate was the same as that observed in the Jewish population after WWII, which was extremely low, the global Jewish population would have risen to over 20 million people.
Total global Jewish population and hypothetical projections for alternate scenarios had the Holocaust not occurred from 1940 to 2000
(in millions)
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Mandell L. Berman Institute (The Berman Archive). (January 1, 2001). Total global Jewish population and hypothetical projections for alternate scenarios had the Holocaust not occurred from 1940 to 2000 (in millions) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1352927/world-religions-jewish-population-projections-shoah-holocaust/
Mandell L. Berman Institute (The Berman Archive). "Total global Jewish population and hypothetical projections for alternate scenarios had the Holocaust not occurred from 1940 to 2000 (in millions)." Chart. January 1, 2001. Statista. Accessed July 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1352927/world-religions-jewish-population-projections-shoah-holocaust/
Mandell L. Berman Institute (The Berman Archive). (2001). Total global Jewish population and hypothetical projections for alternate scenarios had the Holocaust not occurred from 1940 to 2000 (in millions). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1352927/world-religions-jewish-population-projections-shoah-holocaust/
Mandell L. Berman Institute (The Berman Archive). "Total Global Jewish Population and Hypothetical Projections for Alternate Scenarios Had The Holocaust Not Occurred from 1940 to 2000 (in Millions)." Statista, Statista Inc., 1 Jan 2001, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1352927/world-religions-jewish-population-projections-shoah-holocaust/
Mandell L. Berman Institute (The Berman Archive), Total global Jewish population and hypothetical projections for alternate scenarios had the Holocaust not occurred from 1940 to 2000 (in millions) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1352927/world-religions-jewish-population-projections-shoah-holocaust/ (last visited July 22, 2024)
Total global Jewish population and hypothetical projections for alternate scenarios had the Holocaust not occurred from 1940 to 2000 (in millions) [Graph], Mandell L. Berman Institute (The Berman Archive), January 1, 2001. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1352927/world-religions-jewish-population-projections-shoah-holocaust/