#demographics

According to a 2023 statistic Jews make up about 73 % of Israel's population. Let's compare that with some other countries. (While ethnostate actually refers to racial or ethnic groups and Judaism isn't 'just a religion', I will also give examples for the demographics of religions in countries)

Let's start with the EU: According to statistics from 2019 about 64% of the EU's population were Christian, a decline from 72% in 2012. So what? In 2012 the EU was actually a Christian ethnostate? Or at least consisted of ethnostates? I mean if we think about it, we have to follow the Christian calendar, Christian holidays are mandated by the state while other religious groups have to fight every year to be able to observe their most sacred days. Hell, where I live (in Germany) one of the currently ruling parties is called the Christian Democratic Union and our Grundgesetz (basic law) is built upon Christian roots. They even invoke God in the preamble!

Here some further statistics about Religion in Europe.

As you can see even just looking at individual Christian denominations, there are about 6 countries for which the religious majority makes up more than 3/4th of the population. IN THESE COUNTRIES ONE DENOMINATION OF CHRISTIANITY HAS A HIGHER POPULATION PERCENTAGE THAN JEWS IN ISRAEL. So I hope this shows that 'Israel is an ethnostate cause there is just one religion determining everything' is utter bullshit not just because Judaism is not just a religion but also because I can name 6 countries in Europe alone for which there is a higher percentage of people of a certain religion.

So now to actually look at specific countries. Ireland especially seems to have an antisemitism problem, so how about we focus on them.

As of 2022 the amount of Catholics in Ireland has decreased so that they actually make up 69.1% of the population as opposed to the over 75% from 2019. But the definition of ethnostates actually specifically looks at ethnic or racial groups. Let's see. As of 2022 the largest ethnic group in were White Irish, making up a whole 76.5% of the Irish population. Including other white people in this, this number increases to 87.4% of the population. That is 14% more than the 73% that Jews make up of the Israeli population. The next largest group in Ireland are Asians with 3.7% (or depending on how you'd like to spin it, the 6.16% who did not state their ethnicity. This still doesn't make Ireland an ethnostate though.

And some more examples:

China: 91.11% Han Chinese (2020)

Russia: 71.73% ethnic Russians (2021)

Saudi Arabia: 90% Arabs, 10% Afro-Arabs (2021)

USA: 57.84% White (2020)

Canada: 69.8% White (2022)

Germany: 71.3% Germans (2022)

Democratic Republic of Congo: no dominant ethnic group

South Africa: 81.4% Black

Based Around this Poll by @jhoomwrites, thought we'd get some demographics for this because I'm nosy curious.

At the time of this posting - Jhoom's poll had over 1800 reblogs and 10,000 votes, with voting solidly in favor of actually reading prologues/epilogues

There will be 2 Polls - please wait for the reblog to get the second poll since I am forced to split them.

First Poll - Are you American? Because the original post was assumed to be mainly hitting American audiences, but at least one person voting assumed everyone saying No was American. Since both can't be true… Well, that's where I turn into a cat. Second Poll - Ages! Because we I keep hearing terrifying things from certain areas of curriculum in certain spheres/countries and now I'm curious to know if that has made an impact

Fun Fact: Israel has more Muslims (around 1.8 million) than Muslim-majority countries have Jews combined. Israel also has more Christians than Palestinian territories. Numbers are not 100% accurate but the message is.

Jews in:

Maldives 0

Mauritania 0

Iran around 9000

Somalia no more than 50

Afghanistan 0

Djibouti 0

Algeria maybe 5

Morocco around 1000

Comoros 0

Niger 0

Nigeria between 5000–15000

Tajikistan 36–50

Tunisia 1500

Palestine 0

Azerbaijan 5000–30000

Jordan 0

Senegal 50

Yemen around 4

Libya 0

Pakistan 1 person to 745 registered Jewish families

Gambia 0

Mali 0

Saudi Arabia 0

Sudan 0

Iraq 3

Turkmenistan 200

Kosovo 50

Turkey 15000

Bangladesh 0 to 4

Egypt 3

Guinea 0

Uzbekistan around 10000

Indonesia handful Iraqi Jewish families in Surabaya

Syria 3 to 30

Oman 0

Brunei 0

Kyrgyzstan around 400

Sierra Leone probably 0

Qatar probably a few Jewish workers

Kuwait a family I found on Reddit lol

Bahrain 36–50

UAE around 2000

Kazakhstan 2500–3300

Lebanon around 200

Burkina Faso 0

Malaysia around 100

Chad 0

Albania 40–50

Bosnia around 280

Guinea-Bissau insignificant

Ivory Coast around 50

= 90,000+ Jews in 50+ Muslim majority countries

185,000 Christians live in Israel vs 50,000 Christians in Palestinian territories