{"id":5059,"date":"2020-06-17T12:27:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T12:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/?p=5059"},"modified":"2020-06-17T12:38:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T12:38:08","slug":"with-its-population-set-to-double-in-30-years-how-will-israel-cope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/en\/with-its-population-set-to-double-in-30-years-how-will-israel-cope\/","title":{"rendered":"With its population set to double in 30 years, how will Israel cope?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/skyscrapers-2-e1561407751315-1024x640-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/skyscrapers-2-e1561407751315-1024x640-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/skyscrapers-2-e1561407751315-1024x640-1-600x375.jpg 600w, https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/skyscrapers-2-e1561407751315-1024x640-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/skyscrapers-2-e1561407751315-1024x640-1-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/with-its-population-set-to-double-in-30-years-how-will-israel-cope\/\">By\u00a0SUE SURKES &#8211; THE TIMES OF ISRAEL &#8211;\u00a026 June 2019 <\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Planet Earth, currently home to 7.7 billion people, will have to cope with an extra two billion souls by 2050 and a total of up to around 11 billion by the end of the century, according to a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/population.un.org\/wpp\/Publications\/Files\/WPP2019_Highlights.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">UN report<\/a>\u00a0published Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within the same 2050 time frame, Israel\u2019s population \u2014 the fastest-growing in the developed world, increasing by two percent annually&nbsp; \u2014 is set to almost double from the current nine million to 17.6 million, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics. And that\u2019s in a dot of a country, just a little bigger than New Jersey in the US or Wales in the UK, that already has one of the highest population densities in the West and rapidly depleting open space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many countries facing exponential growth, the Jewish state is trying to grapple with the implications and, following massive social protests in 2011 over the cost of living, of housing in particular, the government has been focusing on the need for a massive number of new homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2017, having set up a new bureaucracy to fast-track planning and cut red tape, it approved the construction of 1.5 million housing units by 2040.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/with-its-population-set-to-double-in-30-years-how-will-israel-cope\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0SUE SURKES &#8211; THE TIMES OF ISRAEL &#8211;\u00a026 June 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[61,77],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5069,"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions\/5069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}