Can you name the Countries with the most Jewish people? by yaniv93

Continent	Country	Population
North America		6,400,000
Asia		5,021,506
Europe		717,101
Europe		606,561
South America		595,379
North America		393,660
Europe		302,207
South America		295,125
Europe		142,276
Europe		107,160
Oceania		90,406
Africa		88,688
Europe		72,103
Europe		60,041
North America		53,101

Continent	Country	Population
Europe		51,821
Europe		48,409
Europe		37,000
Europe		31,187
South America		30,743
Europe		30,213
South America		25,375
Europe		24,999
South America		20,900
Asia		20,405
Africa		20,000
Europe		18,003
Asia		17,453
Asia		17,415
Asia		15,401

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Countries with the most Jewish people Quiz

by yaniv93

Created Dec 15, 2010 in Geography
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	tulliuscicero:	Dec 15th, 2010 at 22:32 GMT	5 points
	Glad to see Spain's made up for the Edict of Expulsion.

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	yaniv93:	Dec 16th, 2010 at 01:25 GMT	8 points
	These numbers were taken from www.nationmaster.com. I can tell you from experience that there are many Jews from/in Ethiopia, Uzbekistan and India. I'm not sure about Venezuela. Also, the same numbers are on Wikipedia, which is not a good source, but it verifies the numbers from the source that I used.

	sinatra22:	Dec 16th, 2010 at 13:29 GMT	12 points
	In 1938 there were 3,310,000 Jews living in Poland. Today there are 25,000. That's a 99.3% decrease. @#$% you Hitler!

	Pit_trout:	Dec 16th, 2010 at 15:53 GMT	1 point
	@Sein1: these numbers really aren’t very large! eg Uzbekistan has around 17,000: if you had (to oversimplify) something like a dozen medium-size towns, each 5% Jewish, that would be enough to account for this number.

	balatjr:	Dec 16th, 2010 at 15:56 GMT	6 points
	India has had Jewish communities for hundreds of years, and there are still congregations in Mumbai, Kolkata, Trivandrum (around Kochi), and Delhi. 15,000 out of 1.2 billion ain't many, but it is realistic.

	lukebradford:	Dec 16th, 2010 at 15:59 GMT	3 points
	Good stuff - I had no idea there was such a huge dropoff after the US and Israel.

	puckett86:	Dec 16th, 2010 at 16:15 GMT	6 points
	@yaniv93 Great topic for a quiz, but actually, at the bottom of your Nationamaster source it says: "SOURCE: Wikipedia: Jewish population". That would explain why Wikipedia gives the same numbers, as you pointed out. Sometimes Wikipedia actually cites an accurate source, but in this case the corresponding Wikipedia page says "This section's factual accuracy is disputed".

	Qaanol:	Dec 17th, 2010 at 01:34 GMT	6 points
	No bonus answer for “Afghanistan: 1”? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zablon_Simintov http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39702-2005Jan26.html

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	Rooster:	Dec 17th, 2010 at 14:36 GMT	5 points
	Yeah nationmaster is not a real source. Anyways, fine quiz.

	steelwolf:	Dec 18th, 2010 at 13:11 GMT	2 points
	I love how the source says there's only one Jew in each of Eritrea, Afghanistan and Libya :P

	yaniv93:	Dec 18th, 2010 at 13:37 GMT	1 point
	There really is one known Jew in Afghanistan as Qaanol said. He has his own synagogue too.

	jeraboa:	Jan 18th, 2011 at 22:15 GMT	2 points
	The Falasha (ethiopian jews) were all airlifted in a mass operation by Israel out of the country in the early nineties during the civil war as the TPLF was gaining on Addis ababa to overthrow the derg, I've visited some former falasha villages when working in Ethiopia and its very clear that they've been deserted for 20 years. Less than 20 very elderly jews stayed in Ethiopia all of whom have now passed away. Uzbekistan and India however both have strong Jewish communities, there are two synagouges that I know of just in Bukhara Uzbekistan.

	VladKirr:	Feb 5th, 2011 at 06:34 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz! It was both great and a big reality-check getting all answers right. I think your source may in some cases be unreliable. I only know of my current country of residence, Portugal: according to census estimates 2006(next proper census this year) there were 5800 jewish people living in the country. Your source points to a very specific much lower figure (739) which I may tell you is less than the individual communities living in Lisbon, Belmonte and Oporto state they have(each) not to mention the Algarve region estimating 5000 people of jewish faith living there (which would bring the total to 10,000). I think some places like Uzbekistan and Ethiopia even Iran and all of Latin America apart from Uruguay, Brazil & Argentina are overestimated, while many others (mostly in Western&Southern Europe) are underestimated.