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Countries with the Highest Jewish Population

Which countries have the greatest number of adherents of Judaism?
Source: Jewish Virtual Library as at 2022
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One answer appears in the Countries 197 to 205 quiz and is recognised by 148 (76%) of the world's countries
Quiz by Jerry928
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Last updated: May 16, 2025
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number
country
7,300,000
United States
6,654,000
Israel
452,000
Palestine
442,000
France
394,000
Canada
292,000
United Kingdom
173,000
Argentina
145,000
Russia
118,000
Germany
118,000
Australia
number
country
91,000
Brazil
51,000
South Africa
47,000
Hungary
40,000
Mexico
40,000
Ukraine
30,000
Netherlands
29,000
Belgium
27,000
Italy
19,000
Switzerland
16,000
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14 Comments
Jerry928
+4
Level 76
May 11, 2023
For those who wish to debate whether Palestine (recognised by most countries of the world as a country) really is one or not, please read the instructions first! That answer is included here on the basis of (a) its declaration of independence and statehood, (b) 139 (71%) countries of the world recognising it, and (c) its observer status at the UN, similar to Vatican City and (until 1992) Switzerland. This topic has been debated extensively, and for years, elsewhere on this website, to the point of tiresomeness, so please give it a rest!
ImprovingYeti
+1
Level 43
Aug 25, 2014
Accept UK :)
Jerry928
+1
Level 76
Aug 25, 2014
Sure, UK works now.
chetmanley
+2
Level 36
Jun 21, 2017
It is pretty common practice to allow for 'Brasil' to work for 'Brazil.'
bridog8456
+3
Level 47
Sep 3, 2017
In terms of sheer numbers, it's pretty crazy that the 2 countries with over 1 billion people don't even have 17,000 Jewish people living there.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
Nov 12, 2017
There just aren't that many Jews in the world.
kgoodsir
+1
Level 55
Oct 13, 2017
Why don't Jews ever migrate to China or some other Asian country? I feel like they would fit in well there.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
Nov 12, 2017
Seems like that would be smart. These places don't have the centuries old Christian/Islamic tradition of hating Jews. Not including countries in the near East and Middle East that have historic Jewish populations (Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Uzbekistan) the Asian countries with the most Jews are China with 8,000 and India with 7,000 including people who self-report as part-Jewish. 5,000 of China's Jews live in Hong Kong so they are fairly concentrated there. Japan has 1400. Numbers in other far East countries are negligible: about the size of a large tour group.
BeckyZee
+1
Level 76
May 16, 2025
The majority of Indian Jews emigrated to Israel.

In China, there was a Jewish community of silk traders in Kaifeng, but they largely assimilated. A few remain today but some emigrated to Israel. At other times, China served as a refuge for Jews fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution (settling in Harbin, Tianjin and Shanghai), and to German and Austrian Jews fleeing Nazi Europe (Shanghai was the only place that didn’t require an entry visa). Shanghai and Hong Kong also had a population of Baghdadi Jews since the mid-19th century. In the late 1930s-1945, Shanghai’s Jewish population numbered around 40,000. However, following the end of WWII and the subsequent confiscation of foreign property and businesses by the Chinese Communist Party in the early 1950s, most the the Jews there emigrated to Australia, Israel and the US.

protector441
+2
Level 48
Sep 4, 2019
Still 117.000 left in Germány? That is rather interesting...
BeckyZee
+1
Level 76
May 16, 2025
They’re mainly immigrants from the FSU after the fall of the Soviet Union.
LoganP25
+1
Level 74
Feb 19, 2024
Please accept "Holland" for Netherlands, as other JetPunk quizzes do
BeckyZee
+1
Level 76
May 16, 2025
The title of the quiz is ‘Countries with the highest Jewish population’. But the explanation underneath says ‘Which countries have the greatest number of adherents of Judaism?’. These two things are not the same. You can be Jewish without necessarily adhering to Judaism. Judaism is the religion. But Jewish also refers to people who are ethnically Jewish and culturally Jewish.
Jerry928
+1
Level 76
May 16, 2025
True, though we think the title points you in the correct subject direction, with the instructions making it quite clear what answers we are looking for.
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