Village Statistics, 1945

The survey encompasses data on land ownership, its uses, population statistics, and tax payment records.

The survey’s editors emphasized that it should be viewed as a rough estimate of the actual population rather than an exact count.

[3] The report found the total population of Palestine to be 1,764,520: there were 1,061,270 Muslims, 553,600 Jews, 135,550 Christians and 14,100 classified as "others" (typically Druze).

They cannot, however, be considered as other than rough estimates which in some instances may ultimately be found to differ even considerably, from the actual figures.

[6] For example, he wrote that aerial photographs showed the population of some localities to be exaggerated, and that land use classifications may have been biased towards categories that attracted lower taxes.