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100
98.4
95
95.3
94.4
90
85
80
men
women
84.7
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
75
2004
Total fertility rate among Palestinian
women is 4 births
The total fertility rate for women in
reproductive age (15-49 years) in Palestine
for the period 2011-2013 was 4.1 births per
woman. While the adolescent fertility rate
in the age group (15-19 years) was 48
births per 1000 women. The contraceptive
prevalence rate was around 57 percent in
2014, in the mean time 11.0 percent of
currently married women aged (15-49
years) who are fecund and want to space
their births or limit the number of children
they have and who are currently not using
any family planning method. (Have
unmeet need for family planning)
Literacy rates for men and women aged
15 years and above during 2001-4102
2003
More than half of women aged 15 years
and above are married
56.2 percent of total females aged 15 years
and over were married, 33.7 percent had
never been married. Additionally, 6.1
percent were widowed, 1.6 percent
divorced, 2.1 percent engaged for the first
time, and 0.3 percent were separated.
among male population, which amounted
to 98.4 percent in 2014. The gap is still in
favor of males by 4.0 percent.
2002
Women represent half of the population
The estimated population of Palestine at
the end of 2014 was 4.62 million, of whom
2.35 million were males and 2.27 million
were females. Males comprise 50.8 percent
of the total population compared to 49.2
percent for females. In other words, a sex
ratio of 103.3 (There are 103 males for
each 100 females)
A continued rise in literacy among
women
Despite the rise in literacy rates among
females over the last decade, which
reached. 94.4 percent It is still lower than
the same rate
2001
Ms. Ola Awad, President of the Palestinian
Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS),
presented statistical figures about the
conditions of Palestinian women in a press
release on the occasion of the eighth of
March.
Child marriage
One out of five women in the age (20-49
year) were married before the age of 18,
this percentage is higher in Gaza Strip
compared to the West Bank (28.6 percent
and 21.4 percent respectively).
Rate
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Year
Women and social media
67.4 percent of women aged 10 years and
above were using social media networks in
2014; 68.2 percent of them were using it
for acquaintance, 74.4 percent for games
and entertainment, 61.1 percent to make
phone calls, 21.0 percent for debate and
dialogue on political issues and 33.5
percent for debate and dialogue on cultural
and literary topics.
A gap in the participation rate and
average daily wages between men and
women
The females participation rate in labour
force was 19.4 percent of females in labor
force in 2014 compared with 10.3 percent
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in 2001.
The male labor force
participation rate was more than three
times higher (71.5 percent) than that of
females.
There was a gender gap in the average
daily wages: the average daily wage for
females was NIS 80.9 compared to NIS
105.8 for males in 2014.
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Services and agriculture sectors comprise the
main employer (job absorber) of women,
accounting for 57.0 percent and 20.9 percent of
the total number of employed women
respectively.
Percentage distribution of employed persons
15 years and over by sex and economic
activity, 2014
57.0
Services and ther branches
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
men
1.3
6.3
Transport-storage
10.3
Commerce-Hotels
men
0.7
18.4
9.8
13.2
Mining and manufacturing
women
19.4
10.3
women
22.3
Constrution
71.5
66.8
31.6
20.9
Agriculture and fishing
8.2
0
10
20
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Rate
Men and women labor force
participation rate aged 15 years and
above during 2001-2014
30
40
50
60
70
Percentage
Year
38.4
23.9
Percentage of poverty by sex of household
heads in 2011
50
men
women
39.4
40
29.7
30
25.9
25.0
22.5
17.5
20
10
0
Palestine
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
women
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
men
2003
2002
45
40
35
30
25
20 27.1
15
10
5 13.8
0
2001
Rate
Unemployment rate among men and women
15 years and above 2001-2014
Women headed households are poorer than
men headed households in the West Bank.
The proportion of poor households headed by
women was higher in Gaza Strip at 29.7
percent compared to 22.5 percent in the West
Bank in 2011.
Percentage
Unemployment rates among women exceed
the rate among men by about 15 percent.
The unemployment rate was 38.4 percent for
women against 23.9 percent for men in 2014.
Needless to say that women unemployment
rate was the highest among women with 13
years of schooling and above, standing at 50.6
percent.
Year
The majority of women work in the service
sector (health, education and public sector)
West Bank
Region
Gaza Strip
Palestinian women in public life
In 2012; 21.0 percent of the members of the
local councils are females in the West Bank
while 79.0 percent were males.
In 2013; 15.6 percent of females were judges
whereas 84.4 percent were males and 20.0
percent of journalists were females against
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80.0 percent males in Palestine. Moreover, the
women ambassadors accounted only for 5.1
percent compared to 94.9 percent for males
ambassadors; 41.2 percent of employees in the
public sector (civil servants) were females
against 58.8 percent males in Palestine.
For more details, please contact:
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Ramallah-Palestine
Phone: + (970/972) 2 – 298-2700
Fax: + (970/972) 2 – 298-2710
Toll-Free: 1-800-300-300
Email. [email protected]
Date: 05/03/2015