Population

CBS figures released for the 2026 Nabi Shu’ayb festival, as reported by Israel.com on 24 April 2026, numbered the Druze population in Israel at approximately 154,369 people (provisional) — an increase of more than tenfold since 1949, when CBS reported 14,500 people.

In CBS Independence Day releases, Druze are counted inside the Arab population group, which CBS defines as Muslims, Arab Christians, and Druze. This page does not invent a Druze share of that Arab total.

Localities cited by CBS

At the end of 2024, CBS reported the localities with the highest number of Druze as Dalit al-Karmel (17,700) and Yarka (16,400). Other Druze localities exist; they are omitted here until a matching official table is attached.

Age and fertility

At the end of 2024, less than a quarter (22.6%) of the Druze population were children aged 0–14. CBS comparison figures in the same release: 27.3% children in the Jewish population, about a third (31.3%) in the Muslim population, and about a fifth (19.6%) in the Arab Christian population.

Over the past decade, CBS reported that the growth rate of the Druze population gradually decreased, and in 2024 it stood at 1%, the same as the rate in the Jewish population.

The total fertility rate per Druze woman in 2024 was 1.66 children on average, compared with 1.75 the previous year. CBS reported that the total fertility rate among Druze women has been on a downward trend since the mid-1960s, when it was estimated at 7.92 (in 1964).

Households and education

In 2025, CBS reported about 39,000 households in Israel headed by a Druze, about 1.3% of all households in Israel. 84.3% of Druze households were households with employed people, higher than the percentage among Muslims (80.1%) and among Arab Christians (78.1%).

CBS reported that 43.2% of Druze continued their undergraduate studies within eight years of graduating from high school, compared with 34.4% of all high school graduates in Arab education.

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