Jewish population by country 2022

The two countries with the greatest shares of the world's Jewish population are the United States and Israel. The United States had been a hub of Jewish immigration since the nineteenth century, as Jewish people sought to escape persecution in Europe by emigrating across the Atlantic. The Jewish population in the U.S. is largely congregated in major urban areas, such as New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, with the New York metropolitan area being the city with the second largest Jewish population worldwide, after Tel Aviv, Israel.Israel is the world's only officially Jewish state, having been founded in 1948 following the first Arab-Israeli War. While Jews had been emigrating to the holy lands since the nineteenth century, when they were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, immigration increased rapidly following the establishment of the state of Israel. Jewish communities in Eastern Europe who had survived the Holocaust saw Israel as a haven from persecution, while the state encouraged immigration from Jewish communities in other regions, notably the Middle East & North Africa. Smaller Jewish communities remain in Europe in countries such as France, the UK, and Germany, and in other countries which were hotspots for Jewish migration in the twentieth century, such as Canada and Argentina.

全球犹太人口比例最高的两个国家分别为美国和以色列。自十九世纪以来，美国一直是犹太移民的中心，犹太人为了逃离欧洲的迫害，纷纷跨越大西洋来到这片新大陆。美国的犹太人口主要聚集在主要都市区域，如纽约、洛杉矶和芝加哥，其中纽约都会区仅次于以色列的特拉维夫，成为全球第二大犹太人口聚集的城市。以色列是全世界唯一的官方犹太国家，成立于1948年，这是在第一次阿以战争之后。虽然自十九世纪以来，犹太人便开始向圣地迁徙，当时他们受奥斯曼帝国的统治，但自从以色列国成立后，移民数量急剧增加。在东欧的犹太社区中，那些在大屠杀中幸存下来的成员将以色列视为逃避迫害的避风港，同时，以色列国家也鼓励其他地区的犹太社区，尤其是中东和北非地区的犹太社区移民至此。在欧洲的一些国家，如法国、英国和德国，以及其他在二十世纪犹太移民热点地区的国家，如加拿大和阿根廷，仍保留着较小的犹太社区。