Editing Shefa-Amr (section)

== Demographics ==
{{Arab citizens of Israel}}
In 1951, the population was 4450, of whom about 10% were internally displaced persons from other villages.<ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1080/00263208708700721 | author = Kamen | title = After the Catastrophe I: The Arabs in Israel, 1948-51 | journal = Middle Eastern Studies | volume = 23 | year = 1987 | pages = 453–495 | issue = 4}}</ref> During the early 1950s, about 25,000 dunams of the land of Shefa-Amr were expropriated by the following method: the land was declared a closed military area, then after enough time had passed for it to have become legally "uncultivated", the Minister of Agriculture used his powers to "ensure that it was cultivated" by giving it to neighboring Jewish majority communities. Some of the land was owned by Jews.<ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1525/jps.1973.2.4.00p0099c | author = Jiryis, S. | author-link =Sabri Jiryis | title = The Legal Structure for the Expropriation and Absorption of Arab Lands in Israel | journal = Journal of Palestine Studies | volume = 2 | year = 1973 | pages = 82–104 | issue = 4| doi-broken-date = 20 March 2025 }}</ref> Another 7,579 dunams were expropriated in 1953–4.<ref name="Jiryis76">{{cite journal | author = Jiryis, S. | author-link =Sabri Jiryis | title = The Land Question in Israel | journal = MERIP Reports | volume = 47 | issue =47 | year = 1976 | pages = 5––20+24–26| doi =10.2307/3011382 | jstor =3011382 }}</ref> The total land holdings of the village fell from 58,725 dunams in 1945 to 10,371 dunams in 1962.<ref name="Jiryis76"/>

According to CBS, in 2012 the religious and ethnic makeup of the city was mostly [[Israeli Arab|Arab]]s (consisting of 59.2% Muslim, 26.5% Christian, and 14.3% Druze). Shefa-Amr is home to the fourth-largest Arab [[Christianity in Israel|Christian community in Israel]], and are mostly [[Melkite Greek Catholic Church|Greek-Melkite Catholics]].<ref name=Christian2020>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/DocLib/2019/400/11_19_400e.pdf|title=Christmas 2019 - Christians in Israel|date=29 December 2019|publisher=Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel)}}</ref> According to CBS, in 2012 there were 38,300 registered citizens in the city. 40.4% of the population was not over 19 years old, 14.9% between 20 and 29, 21.1% between 30 and 44, 17.8% from 45 to 64, and 5.7% 65 or older.

Population in Shefa-Amr over the years:
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