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Haredi Fertility in Israel

Total fertility rate of Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jews in Israel: 7.5 children per woman in 2003-2005, declining to 6.4 in 2020-2022 and ticking back up to 6.75 in 2022-2024, against the fertility of all Jews, Muslims, and the religiosity gradient within Israeli Jews.

Total fertility rate of Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jews in Israel: 7.5 children per woman in 2003-2005, declining to 6.4 in 2020-2022 and ticking back up to 6.75 in 2022-2024, against the fertility of all Jews, Muslims, and the religiosity gradient within Israeli Jews.
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Haredi women in Israel averaged 7.5 children in 2003-2005, fell to 6.4 in 2020-2022, and rose again to 6.75 in 2022-2024, still more than double the Jewish national average of about 3.0 and triple the secular Jewish rate of about 1.9. Over the same decades, Muslim fertility in Israel collapsed from over 9 children per woman in the 1960s to under 3 today, converging with the Jewish average, while Haredi fertility remained far above every other group.