A COMPARISON BETWEEN ISRAEL AND GAZA; AND ISRAEL AND THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK

Too many “bloggers” and so called experts publish postings without citing sources or a bibliography, when it comes to reporting emotive issues. The following comparisons are courtesy of the CIA, the United Nations and U.S. governmental agencies. The full list is at the bottom of the page.
Israel has a geographical property area of 8019 square miles.
Gaza has a geographical property area of 139 square miles.
Occupied West Bank has a property area of 2263 square miles.
Population of Israel is 6.93 million. Occupied West Bank is 4.2 million. Gaza has 1.55 million
The total population of the Palestinians=5.75 million. Israelis=6.93 million.
Israel has 883 people per square mile. Gaza has 11,165 people per square mile.
The Occupied West bank has 1,845 people per square mile.
The population growth figures for Israel are 1.88% per annum.
The population growth figures for Gaza are 3.42% per annum.
The growth figures for the Occupied West Bank; 3.21 per annum
Life expectancy for Israeli’s is 80.7 years.
For the people of Gaza it is 73.4 years.
For the Occupied West Bank it is 74.5 years.
The meridian age for Israeli’s is 28.9 years.
For Gaza the meridian age is 17.2 years.
Occupied West Bank is 20.2 years.
The GDP for Israel is $162 billion per annum.
The GDP for Gaza is $768 million per annum.
Occupied West Bank is $5.458 billion per annum.
GDP per capita for Israel is $19,280 per annum.
GDP per capita for Gaza is $2,900 per annum.
Occupied West Bank’s is $1,129 per annum.
Real growth figures for Israel are 4.898% per annum.
For Gaza it is 0.8% per annum and Occupied West Bank is 4.909%.
Inflation rate for Israel is minus 0.194% per annum
For Gaza it is 3.6% per annum, Occupied West Bank is 11.3% per annum.
Unemployment runs at 6.1% in Israel and 41.3% in Gaza.
The occupied West Bank’s runs at 16.3% per annum.
It is worth noting, in the immortal words of Benny Morris,”...at the end of the 1948 War, Israel had a population of some 750,000 Jews and 150,000 Arabs. By the year 2002, Israel’s Arab minority still constituted some 20% of the country’s population (just over one million as compared with some five million Jews) –and this despite the fact that the Jews’ natural increase had been supplemented during this 50-year period by the arrival of some two and a half million new immigrants.
Sources: United States Central Intelligence Agency,” The World Factbook” 2009
United Nations Statistics Division UNdata.
United Nations,”National Accounts Main Aggregates Data Base. U.N. Statistics Division.
United States Census Bureau, International Data Base (IDB) 2008
United States Geological Survey
University of California, Berkeley, Global Administration Areas, 2008.
World Health Organisation, Mortality Database Tables, 2009.