Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine (ص 18)
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- Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine (ص 18)
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Village Statistics 1945
1948, the fact remains that the Jewish population (legal and illegal) of
Palestine on the eve of the partition of the country stood at about one-third
the estimated total population of 2,030,000 persons.®
As regards the nomadic population of the Beersheba sub-district, the
figure of 47,980 persons appearing in the ‘Village Statistics 1945’ is a gross
under-estimation for the reasons given by the Department of Statistics in para-
graph 7 above. The Palestine Government made no effort to settle the bedouin
inhabitants outside the Beersheba sub-district, and there is no evidence that
they emigrated to surrounding Arab countries. Although it was difficult to
obtain accurate figures for a constantly moving population, the local admi-
nistrative authorities which had daily contacts with the tribes and sub-tribes
estimated the bedouin population of the Beersheba sub-district as well over
100,000 persons.
(5) As regards the Jewish population prior to the period of the Mandate, the Pales-
tine Government, in its memoranda to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, stated
that “reliable statistical data collected during the second part of the nineteenth century
and at the beginning of the twentieth century, estimated the Jewish population of
Palestine as follows:
1882 24,000
1895 47,000
1900 50,000
1910 81,000
1914 85,000
1916-1918 56,000
1922 (census) 83,794”
Source: A Survey of Palestine 1945-1946, Vol. I, p. 114. - تاريخ
- سبتمبر ١٩٧٠
- المنشئ
- Hadawi, Sami
- هداوي، سامي
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