Jews are a Semitic people who live predominantly in Israel and constitute the country's largest ethnic group.
Ethnic formation took place in the Middle East. Jews descend from the inhabitants of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judea.
Nowadays, many Jews live outside of Israel.
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How many Jews are there in the world in 2025
Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime murdered approximately six million Jews in Europe and North Africa.
Demographers estimate that there are approximately 15.8 million Jews living in the world as of 2025, representing approximately 0.2% of the world's population.
Countries with large Jewish communities also include:
- France – population: approximately 440 thousand people;
- Canada – approximately 398 thousand people;
- Great Britain – approximately 312 thousand people;
- Argentina – approximately 171 thousand people;
- Germany – approximately 125 thousand people;
- Australia – approximately 117 thousand people.
According to the results of a study conducted by the demographer of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor Sergio DellaPergola, as of October 2021, 43 thousand Jews lived in Ukraine. The vast majority live in large cities.
Since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, a large number of people have left Ukraine. The Israeli Foreign Minister reported that a large number of non-Jewish Ukrainians with family or friendly ties in the country have arrived in their country.
At the same time, it is known that after the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, 15 thousand Ukrainian Jews decided to emigrate to Ukraine.
To date, there is no precise data on the size of the community in Ukraine.
How Many Jews Survived the Holocaust: Current Data
The Holocaust was the deliberate extermination of the Jewish population by Nazi Germany during World War II, involving mass repressions, deportations, and murders.
As of early 2025, there are approximately 245,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors living in the world, according to data released by the Jewish Claims Conference (JCC) during a report in Frankfurt am Main.
Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime murdered nearly 6 million Jews in Europe and North Africa.
According to JCC statistics, a significant portion of the survivors currently live in Israel (more than 119,000 people, or almost 49% of all living witnesses of the tragedy) and the United States (about 38,400, which is more than 15%). In the United States, most of them live in New York.
There are approximately 14,200 Jews who suffered from Nazi persecution in Germany, and about 21,900 in France, making it the largest Jewish community on the European continent.
The information for the JCC report was collected in August 2023. At that time, the largest group of respondents (41.2%) were people aged 81 to 85 years, meaning they were only 4 to 8 years old during the Holocaust. Thus, today's living witnesses of those events are very old – over 96 years old.
On February 24, 2025, at the age of 113 years and 42 days, the oldest Jewish Holocaust survivor, Rose Girone, a native of Ukraine, died in Bellmore, Nassau County, New York, USA.
She was one of 245,000 Holocaust survivors who still live in more than 90 countries. She fled Nazi Germany in 1939 with her husband and child, but was forced into a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai.
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How many Jews in the world were killed during the Holocaust
According to information from the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, approximately 6 million Jews were killed during the Nazi occupation, of which more than 1.4 million were killed on the territory of Ukraine.
People tried to save Jews in various ways, including hiding them from the Nazis and local collaborators, giving them real or fake documents, and organizing escapes from ghettos and concentration camps.
Given the fact that there are fewer and fewer living witnesses to the Holocaust, it is very important to preserve the collective memory of these terrible events and to counter anti-Semitic sentiments.
