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🇵🇸 Palestine

State of Palestine

PSE PS E£ Egyptian pound (EGP)

Every statistic we track for Palestine — 86 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →

Life expectancy

74.6 yrs

#82 of 188

Happiness score

4.69

#109 of 147

Liberal democracy

0.11

#138 of 179

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By profile across every shared indicator (global percentiles).

Palestine/Gaza · 88% Zanzibar · 85% Somaliland · 78% 🇦🇸 American Samoa · 77% 🇱🇧 Lebanon · 76%

All indicators

📈 Economy

Account Ownership 39.6% #121/139 2024
Bank Account Ownership 39.6% #121/139 2024
Bank Branches 12.9 #75/153 2024
Debit Card Ownership 31.4% #92/140 2024
Digital Payments Usage 20.8% #91/97 2024
Economy Rated Good 19.8% #6/8 2024
Extreme Poverty 2.1% #19/237 2023
GDP per Capita (Long Run) 4,775 #124/165 2022
Income Inequality (Gini) 36.4 #21/57 2023
Listed Companies 48 #53/70 2024
Made a Digital Payment 8.2% #137/144 2017
Mobile Money Account 6.2% #72/80 2024
Stock Market Capitalisation 25.5% #43/70 2024
Stocks Traded 1% #46/69 2024
Total GDP (Long Run) 24,076,501,614 #137/165 2022

👥 Demographics

Fertility Rate (WB) 3.3 #48/217 2024
Median Age 20.3 #194/235 2026
Population 4.4 #123/229 2013
Population Density 945.6 #14/235 2026
Refugees by Country of Origin 48,323 #34/195 2025
Urban Population 87.1% #41/213 2024

🌐 Connectivity

Access to Electricity 100% #87/214 2023
Mobile Subscriptions 76.6 #169/209 2022
Read News Online 81.6% #1/75 2024

🫀 Health

Adult Obesity 37.1% #27/199 2022
Child Mortality (under-5) 3.8 #44/199 2024
Hypertension Prevalence 39.1% #88/194 2019
Life Expectancy 74.6 #82/188 2013
Life Expectancy 73.6 #86/186 2020
Suicide Rate 0.8 #180/185 2021
Tobacco Use Prevalence 34.8% #15/167 2022
Universal Health Coverage Index 65 #129/195 2023

🎓 Education

PISA Mathematics Score 366 #69/79 2022
PISA Reading Score 349 #74/79 2022
PISA Science Score 369 #73/79 2022

🌱 Environment

Renewable Electricity 39.4% #81/195 2024

🏛️ Governance

Civil Liberties (V-Dem) 0.4 #137/179 2025
Clean Elections (V-Dem) 0 #175/179 2025
Deliberative Democracy (V-Dem) 0.1 #154/179 2025
Egalitarian Democracy (V-Dem) 0.2 #125/179 2025
Electoral Democracy (V-Dem) 0.2 #139/179 2025
Freedom of Expression (V-Dem) 0.4 #141/179 2025
Gender Equality (V-Dem) 0.5 #157/179 2025
Judicial Constraints on Executive (V-Dem) 0.5 #112/179 2025
Liberal Democracy (V-Dem) 0.1 #138/179 2025
Participatory Democracy (V-Dem) 0.2 #128/179 2025
Perceived State Corruption 87.1% #5/8 2024
Political Corruption (V-Dem) 0.5 #97/179 2025
Rule of Law (V-Dem) 0.4 #107/179 2025
Support for Democracy 75.7% #5/8 2024

📰 Media & news

Press Freedom Index 32.1 #153/177 2026

🛡️ Safety

Homicide Rate 3.6 #101/204 2023
Road Traffic Deaths 4.7 #167/195 2021

⚠️ Risk & resilience

Climate Seen as a Threat 77.2% #124/142 2023
Confident Can Protect Family 43.6% #80/142 2023
Experienced a Disaster 15.4% #115/142 2023
Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) 3.6% #96/139 2023
INFORM Risk Index 6.4 #22/191 2025
Resilience to Risk (WRP) 51 #82/141 2023
Worry About Violent Crime 74.4% #45/142 2023

😊 Wellbeing

Happiness (Cantril Ladder) 4.7 #109/147 2025
Happiness Driver: Freedom 0.7 #120/146 2025
Happiness Driver: GDP 1.2 #115/147 2025
Happiness Driver: Generosity 0.1 #107/147 2025
Happiness Driver: Low Corruption 0.1 #93/147 2025
Happiness Driver: Social Support 1.3 #66/147 2025
Human Development Index 0.7 #134/193 2023

🧭 Attitudes & values

Attended a Demonstration 27.9% #7/151 2017
Believe Vaccines Are Effective 90.3% #29/143 2018
Believe Vaccines Are Safe 90.8% #23/143 2018
Desire to Emigrate 24.7% #6/8 2024
Generalised Trust 2.3 #36/36 2023
Importance of Religion 4.9 #2/35 2023
Interpersonal Trust 9.2% #5/8 2024
Preference for State Ownership 4.8 #32/35 2023
Religiosity 44.2% #4/7 2024
Risk Tolerance 4.3 #32/36 2023
Self-assessed Health 2 #35/36 2023
Signed a Petition 23.5% #37/121 2017
Trade Union Membership 12.4% #54/120 2017
Trust in government 4.4 #73/123 2017
Trust in parliament 4.5 #76/151 2017
Trust in political parties 3.6 #64/120 2017
Trust in Science 73.2% #74/143 2018
Trust in Scientists 62.7% #82/143 2018
Trust in the legal system 4.8 #89/153 2017

Latest available period per indicator; rank is the country's position among all countries with data. Sources are credited on each indicator page.