There are now 7,465,000 people living in Israel, local daily Ha'aretz cited the country's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) as reporting on Thursday.
The figure represents a 1.8 percent population increase since last year, Xinhua reported.
According to data released by CBS on Wednesday, days ahead of the Rosh Hashana, or the Jewish New Year's Day, 75.5 percent of the population is Jewish, 20.2 percent is Arab and the rest are identified as "others."
The Israeli populace is relatively young compared with that of other countries, with 28.4 percent of the population under the age of 14, in contrast to an average of 17 percent among Western countries, showed the data.
The data also indicated that, on average, Israeli men live to an age of 79.1 and Israeli women to 83. But the percentage of Israelis over age 65 stands at 9.7, as opposed to an average of 15 percent in the Western world.
Israel's population rises to 7.46 million: data
There are now 7,465,000 people living in Israel, local daily Ha'aretz cited the country's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) as reporting on Thursday.
