Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine (ص 13)

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Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine (ص 13)

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II - Population
TABLE I gives the total population of Palestine at the end of 1944 as
about 1,765,000 persons.
In its accompanying Explanatory Note to the ‘Village Statistics 1945’
the Department of Statistics had the following to say on the method used in
arriving at the population figures:
“The population estimates given in ‘Village Statistics’ show for
each inhabited place in Palestine the number of persons, classified
by religion at the end of 1944. A summary of the data by sub-
district is given on page 3 (of the book). In this table the popula-
tion is further classified in three categories, viz: urban, rural and
nomad.
2. The classification of the population according to religion, viz:
Moslems, Jews, Christians and Others is that used in the censuses
and in vital statistics and is socially necessary by reason of the com-
plete jurisdiction enjoyed by religious communities in matters of
the personal status of their members. In the current life of Palestine
the further distinction between ‘Arabs,’ ‘Jews’ and ‘Others’ which
may be described as ‘racial’ or ‘national’ has also been found to be
necessary. In the absence of basic data, however, statistics of the
distribution of the population of each locality according to ‘race’
cannot be compiled, and only a rough estimate of the total popula-
tion according to the ‘racial’ classification may be given as at the end
of 1944:
Settled Population Total Population
(Excluding Nomads)
Arabs 1,112,000 1,179,000
Jews 554,000 554,000
Others 32,000 32,000
Total 1,698,000 1,765,000
3. The classification of the population into ‘urban,’ ‘rural’ and
‘nomadic’ is that used in current population statistics. The popula-
tion considered as ‘urban’ is (a) that of the four large towns (Jeru-
salem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jaffa); (b) that of the chefliex of each sub-
district, after which the sub-district is named (Gaza, Beersheba,

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Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine

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Hadawi, Sami

هداوي، سامي

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