Israelis' life expectancy is rising. The life expectancy for men reached 79.1 years in 2008, four months longer than in 2007, while the life expectancy for women rose by six months to 83.
Israel is bucking the aging trend in the Western world as fertility rates stay above Western average. The average number of children in an Israeli family is 2.96, compared with 1.4 in Spain, Italy, and Denmark, 1.8% in France and Ireland, and 2 in the US. 156,923 children were born in Israel in 2008, 3.5% more than in 2007.
The gap in the average number of children of Jewish and Muslim women narrowed. The average number of children of a Jewish woman rose to 2.88 in 2008 from 2.80 in 2007, while the average number of children of a Muslim woman declined to 3.84 from 3.90 in 2007 and 3.97 in 2006. Below the 2009 CIA data. It is good that we Jews have left sterile Hungary and Eastern Europe, and are back to ourselves in Israel. American Jews should leave too, if they want grandchildren.
161 Hungary 1,35
161 Slovakia 1,35
162 Andorra 1,33
163 Spain 1,31
163 Italy 1,31
164 Latvia 1,30
165 Slovenia 1,28
165 Poland 1,28
166 Moldova 1,27
167 Ukraine 1,26
168 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,25
169 Czech Republic 1,24
169 Belarus 1,24
170 Lithuania 1,23
170 Montserrat 1,23
171 Japan 1,21
171 Korea, South 1,21
172 Northern Mariana Islands 1,15
173 Taiwan 1,14
174 Singapore 1,09
175 Hong Kong 1,02
176 Macau 0,91
Illustration: Israeli Belly Dancer. It may be relevant.
5 comments:
Aren't the figures for Israeli Jews deceptive in that the average of 3 is really a combination of a low secular Ashkenazi avg (in line w. other modern secular Europeans) and a high avg. for haredi and Separdic women, Ethiopian "Jews", etc.?
As long as they fall in line under their leadership, it matters little.
Look at the fertility number for Japan and compare it with Israel's fertility number. The reason Japan has such a low number is that Japan has one of the highest abortion rates in the world, whereas Israel has a near total ban on child murder.
Laws are ineffective to change natality, it is a social/religious thing. Japanese are secular, Europeans believe in nothing, Israel is a religious society.
Laws are a reflection of the culture that creates them.
Abortion was legalized in Japan in 1948, and since then legalized abortion has enabled the culture of free sex.
I read a good article online that compared Japan and South Korea with regards to abortion and Christianization. Japan legalized abortion in '48 and has never had any form of Christianity convert more than 2% of the population. South Korea legalized abortion in the mid '70s along with the West, and by that point Protestantism, along with a small Catholic minority had converted between 20-30% of the population. Now that the remaining 2/3 of the Korean population has joined the global Death Cult the future of SK belongs to the Christians.
Essentially, societies that decide to engage in widespread child-murder usually do not fall under the protection of religion, since in a fundamental sense such societies are alienated from the laws of God.
Israel is not a Christian country, but the same dynamic applies as you noted above, but as I have pointed out such forces also work in reverse.
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