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Total Jewish Population in the United States

(1654 - Present)

Year
Jewish Population
Year
Jewish Population
1654
25
1937
4,641,000-4,831,180
1700
200-300
1940
4,770,000-4,975,000
1776
1,000-2,500
1950
4,500,000-5,000,000
1790
1,243-3,000
1960
5,367,000-5,531,500
1800
2,000-2,500
1970
5,370,000-6,000,000
1820
2,650-5,000
1980
5,500,000-5,920,890
1826
6,000
1992
5,828,000
1830
4,000-6,000
2009
6,544,000
1840
15,000
2011
6,588,065
1848
50,000
2012
6,721,680
1850
50,000-100,000
2013
6,721,965
1860
150,000-200,000
2014
6,769,000
1870
200,000
2015
7,160,000
1880
230,000-280,000
2016
6,856,304
1890
400,000-475,000
2017
6,850,865
1900
937,800-1,058,135
2018
6,925,475
1910
1,508,000-2,349,754
2019 6,968,600
1920
3,300,000-3,604,580
2020 7,153,065
1927
4,228,029
2021 7,300,000
    2022 7,387,992

* Jewish population here is defined as the Enlarged Jewish Population which includes:

(A) Core Population - Jews born to Jewish parents or converted to Judaism;
(B) Other Persons of Jewish Parentage;
(C) Respective non-Jewish households members

Totals may not be exact due to rounding.

° For methodological reasons, the exact numbers are probably inflated slightly as some individuals may be double-counted.
^ Figure is less than 0.1 and rounds to 0.


Sources: Ira M. Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky, Eds.,  “Jewish Population in the United States, 2012,” American Jewish Year Book (2012) (Dordrecht: Springer) p. 143-211;
American Jewish Historical Society, American Jewish Desk Reference, (The Philip Leff Group, Inc., 1999), p. 35;
American Jewish Year Book 2006 (NY: American Jewish Committee, 2006);
North American Jewish Databank (2010);
North American Jewish Databank (2011);
The American Jewish Population Project;

Ira M. Sheskin & Arnold Dashefsky, “United States Jewish Population, 2018,” in Arnold Dashefsky & Ira M. Sheskin, Eds., American Jewish Year Book, 2018, (Dordrecht: Springer, 2019), pp. 251-347.
Ira M. Sheskin & Arnold Dashefsky, “United States Jewish Population, 2020,” in Arnold Dashefsky & Ira M. Sheskin, Eds., American Jewish Year Book, 2020, (Cham, SUI: Springer, 2021).
Ira M. Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky, “United States Jewish Population, 2021,” in Arnold Dashefsky and Ira M. Sheskin (eds.), The American Jewish Year Book, 2021, (Cham: Springer Nature, 2022).
Ira M. Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky, “United States Jewish Population, 2022,” in Arnold Dashefsky and Ira M. Sheskin (eds.), The American Jewish Year Book, 2022, (Cham: Springer Nature, 2023).