Editing Rehovot (section)

==Demographics==
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|1914|955
|1922|1242<ref name="Census1922"/>
|1931|3193<ref>[http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/PalestineCensus1931.pdf 1931 census of Palestine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009120149/http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/PalestineCensus1931.pdf |date=9 October 2016 }}, p. 23</ref>
|1948|12500
|1955|26000
|1961|29000
|1972|39300
|1983|67900
|1995|85200
|2008|111100
|2015<sup>1</sup>|132700
|2019|143904
|2022|152084
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Between 1914 and 1991, the town's population rose from 955 to 81,000, and its area more than doubled. Parts of Rehovot's suburbs are built on land that belonged to the village of [[Zarnuqa]] before 1948, population 2,620, including 240 Jews in [[Gibton]].<ref>Walid Khalidi (editor). ''All that Remains: Palestinian villages occupied and depopulated by Israel in 1948''. IPS, Washington. 1992. p. 425. {{ISBN|978-0-88728-224-9}}.</ref> In 1995, there were 337,800 people living in the greater Rehovot area. {{As of|2007}}, the ethnic makeup of the city was 99.8% [[Jew]]ish. There were 49,600 males and 52,300 females, of whom 31.6% were 19 years of age or younger, 16.1% between the ages of 20 and 29, 18.2% between 30 and 44, 18.2% from 45 to 59, 3.5% from 60 to 64, and 12.3% 65 years of age or older. The population growth rate was 1.8%.<ref name="CBS">According to [[Israel Central Bureau of Statistics]] data [http://www.cbs.gov.il/publications/local_authorities2004/excel/p_libud.xls] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930031312/http://www.cbs.gov.il/publications/local_authorities2004/excel/p_libud.xls|date=30 September 2007}} {{in lang|he}}</ref>

In Rehovot, there are mainly [[History of the Jews in Russia|Russian Jews]], [[Yemenite Jews]], and [[Beta Israel|Ethiopian Jews]], who are concentrated largely in the Kiryat Moshe and Oshiot areas. There is a growing community of religious [[Anglo]]-speaking people who primarily live in Northern Rehovot around the [[Weizmann Institute of Science]].

According to the 2019 census, the population of Rehovot was counted to be 143,904, of which 143,536 people, comprising 99.7% of the city's population were classified as "[[Israeli Jews|Jews and Others]]", and 368 people, comprising 0.3% as "[[Arab citizens of Israel|Arab]]".{{Israel populations|reference}}