Stats released by Palestinians July 2010

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The illiteracy rate of 5.6% and 49.2% have a computer in Palestine


07/30/2010 16:15

Ramallah - Firas Press: Acting President announced Statistics Ola Awad, the population of the Palestinian territories as at the middle of this year 4.05 million people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

She instead told a news conference on the occasion of World Population Day, the population of the West Bank stood at 2.51 million people, of whom 1.27 million male, and 1.24 million females, while the number of residents of the Gaza Strip at about 1.54 million people, of whom 799 were males and 756 thousand female.

The survey found that population densities in the Palestinian territories high in the Gaza Strip in particular, and because of the concentration of 105 million people in an area not exceeding 365 km, most of them refugees, population density estimated in 2010 some 672 persons / km in the Palestinian territory, by 444 person / km in the West Bank, compared to 4.206 / km in the Gaza Strip.

The data showed that a decrease in the rate of total fertility in the Palestinian territories, where it reached 4.6 births in 2007 by 4.1 births in the West Bank and 5.2 births in the Gaza Strip when it was 6.0 births in 1997 in the Palestinian territories.

The percentage of women's participation in the workforce to 14.1% by 15.8% in the West Bank and 11.2% in Gaza Strip, compared with 66.7% of men's participation in the workforce, by 70.0% in the West Bank and 60.9% in Gaza Strip.

The results indicate that the percentage of unemployed among the participants in the labor force in the First Quarter 2010 was 22.0% more than five participants in the workforce, by 16.5% in the West Bank and 33.9% in Gaza Strip. The unemployment rate among women in the labor force to 26.8% versus 21.1% among men.

The results of the Expenditure and Consumption Survey Palestinian family 2007, the average expenditure in the monthly household cash on various goods and services amounted to 608 JD in the Palestinian territory (by 708 dinars in the West Bank in exchange for 415 dinars in the Gaza Strip), and the form of cash expenditure on food groups and most of the average total expenditure of households in the Palestinian territories, where the percentage of expenditure on food group 33.0% (by 31.7% in the West Bank in exchange for 37.7% in Gaza Strip).

The poverty rate in 2007 34.5% in the Palestinian territory, (23.6% in the West Bank and 55.7% in Gaza Strip), as much as the poverty line the average family of reference (of six individuals, two adults and four children) in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in 2007 about 2 375 shekels (about 580 U.S. dollars).

The data showed in 2009 that the illiteracy rate among individuals aged 15 years and over in the Palestinian territory of 5.6%, and rates vary significantly between males and females, reaching between males 2.6%, while the females 8.7%, and the results showed a difference in the rate of illiteracy between the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where 5.1% in the West Bank while in Gaza Strip 5.4%.

The percentage of households with a computer in the Occupied Palestinian 49.2% (by 51.1% in the West Bank and 45.6% in Gaza Strip) in 2009.

The data showed that 28.5% of households in the Palestinian territory has a connection to the Internet in 2009, by 27.2% in the West Bank and 30.9% in Gaza Strip, the data also indicated that more than half of the individuals (10 years and over) are known to use the Internet (59.1 %), while 32.3% of individuals use the Internet effectively.

The percentage of Palestinian families who owned the house for a family member about 86.3% in 2008, by 83.0% in the West Bank and 93.0% in Gaza Strip, while the proportion of households living in rented accommodation in the Palestinian Territory amounted to 9.2% Family (by 11.4% in the West Bank and 4.5% in Gaza Strip

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