Arab-Israeli conflict facts, figures, and statistics

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**Comparative statistics Israel and Arab countries, with the Netherlands as a comparable index.**
Country, Freedom House rating<ref>Freedom in the World 2006 (PDF). Freedom House (2005-12-16). Retrieved on 2006-07-14.</ref> Free, Partly Free, Not Free	Area 1000s km²	Population Millions (2005 est.)	GDP per capita	Infant mortality rate	Fertility rate	HDI	Military expenditures $ Billions (FY03)	Palestinian refugees<ref name="unrwa">Total Registered Refugees Per Country and Area (PDF). United Nations. UNRWA (2005-03-01). Retrieved on 2006-07-14.</ref> (2005)	Jews in Arab lands<ref>Jewish Population in Arab Countries 1948-2001. Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa. Retrieved on 2006-07-14.</ref> (1948 / 2001)
Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands	41.53	16.41	$30,862	5.04	1.65	0.943	9.41	N/A	N/A

Image:Flag of Israel (bordered).svg Israel	20.77	7.01	$23,416	7.03	2.57	0.915	9.11	276,000	N/A
West Bank	5.87	2.80	$1,500	19.62	4.90	0.729	N/A	665,000	N/A
Gaza Strip	0.36	1.38	$1,000	22.93	6.42	0.729	N/A	923,000	N/A
Image:Flag of Jordan.svg Jordan	92.30	5.73	$3,500	17.35	3.29	0.753	1.46	2,540,000	N/A
Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon	10.45	3.83	$5,000	24.52	2.05	0.759	0.54	695,000	5,000 / 100
Image:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt	1,001.45	77.51	$3,600	32.59	3.07	0.659	2.44	70,000	75,000 / 100
Syria	185.18	18.45	$3,100	29.53	3.95	0.721	0.86	584,000	15-30,000 / 100
Image:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq	437.07	26.08	$2,500	50.25	4.75	N/A	N/A	N/A	135,000 / 200
Image:Flag of Yemen.svg Yemen	527.97	20.73	$820	61.50	6.97	0.489	0.89	N/A	53,000 / 200
Image:Flag of Libya.svg Libya	1,759.54	5.77	$8,900	24.60	3.64	0.799	1.30	N/A	35,000 / 0
Image:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria	2,381.74	32.53	$5,500	31.00	2.72	0.722	2.48	N/A	140,000 / 0
Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco	446.55	32.73	$3,500	41.62	3.05	0.631	2.30	N/A	250,000 / 5,230
Image:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait	17.82	2.87	$15,500	9.95	3.20	0.844	2.58	N/A	N/A
Image:Flag of Bahrain.svg Bahrain	0.67	0.69	$13,000	17.72	3.00	0.846	0.63	N/A	N/A
Image:Flag of the Comoros.svg Comoros	2.17	0.60	$710	74.93	5.26	0.547	0.01	N/A	N/A
Image:Flag of Djibouti.svg Djibouti	23.00	0.48	$1,400	104.13	6.00	0.495	0.03	N/A	N/A
Image:Flag of Mauritania.svg Mauritania	1,030.70	3.09	$1,800	70.89	6.00	0.477	0.02	N/A	N/A
Image:Flag of Oman (bordered).svg Oman	212.46	3.00	$8,200	19.51	6.00	0.781	0.25	N/A	N/A
Image:Flag of Qatar (bordered).svg Qatar	10.36	0.86	$21,200	18.61	3.00	0.80	0.849	N/A	N/A
Image:Flag of Somalia.svg Somalia	637.66	8.59	$550	116.70	7.00	N/A	0.02	N/A	N/A
Image:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg United Arab Emirates	83.60	4.30	$21,100	14.51	3.00	0.849	1.60	N/A	N/A
Image:Flag of Sudan.svg Sudan	2,505.81	40.19	$1,360	62.50	5.00	0.512	0.50	N/A	N/A
Image:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia	163.61	10.08	$6,500	24.77	1.99	0.753	0.36	N/A	50-105,000 / 1,000
Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia	1,960.60	26.42	$10,500	13.24	6.25	0.772	18.00	240,000	N/A

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The UNRWA defines Palestinian refugee as a person "whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948 and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict" and includes their descendants in the male line, as well as persons in need of support who first became refugees as a result of the 1967 conflict. According to the UN Conciliation Commission, the number of Palestinian refugees in 1949 was 711,000 (see also Estimates of the Palestinian Refugee flight of 1948). As of 31 March 2005, there were 4,255,120 Palestinian refugees registered with the UNRWA.<ref name="unrwa" />
Approximately two-thirds of 758,000—866,000 of the Jews expelled or who fled from Arab lands after 1948 were absorbed and naturalized by the State of Israel.
After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, most of the Jewish population in Arab countries fled, were expelled, were coerced by Arab governments, or voluntarily left their homes because of an increasing climate of hostility, with nearly 66% absorbed by Israel (within 1949 armistice lines).
Kuwait expelled most of its 400,000 Palestinian refugees after the 1991 Gulf War.<ref>"Abbas apology to Kuwait over Iraq", BBC News Online, 2004-12-12. Retrieved on 2006-07-14.</ref>
The HDI provides an index for the "Occupied Palestinian Territories," meaning both the West Bank and Gaza Strip. List of countries by Human Development Index

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Avneri, Arieh (1984). Claim of Dispossession: Jewish Land-Settlement and the Arabs, 1878-1948. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 0-87855-964-7 (p. 276)
page 966 from The Encyclopedia of World History Sixth Edition, Peter N. Stearns (general editor), © 2001 The Houghton Mifflin Company, at Bartleby.com.

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