JEWISH POPULATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 68, 17 September 1936, Page 10

JEWISH POPULATION

GERMAN WORLD ESTIMATE

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, August 12.

Jews throughout the world today number 16,291,000, as compared with an estimated 4,200,000 in 1850, according to a summary of the work of the noted Jewish statistician, Dr. Erwin Rawicz, appearing in the "C.-V. Zeitung," of Berlin. The rapid increase coincides with the emancipation of the Jews in most European countries and the growth, of industrialisation, it is declared, following a heavy decrease in the Jewish population in the previous twenty or twenty-five centuries.

Since' 1800 the general population of Europe rose from just below 190,000,000 to some 500,000,000 today. The summary shows that there were about three Jews per 1000 in 1800, about seven in 1900, and about eight in 1935. The Jewish population of Great Britain, according to the survey, is 340,000.

The Jewish population of Germany is given as 400,000, compared with an estimated 550,000 at the time of Hitler's advent to power. Jews in Palestine numbered 395.000 in 1935. By continents, there were 9,736,000 Jews in Europe, including Turkey in Asia and Russia; 560.000 in Africa; 936,000 in Asia; 5,031,000 in North and South America; and 27,000 in Australia and New Zealand.