FACT CHECK · LAND AND MIGRATION: WHO CAME FROM WHERE, AND 1948
Claim: 1931 census: 2% of Muslims were born abroad
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
The 1931 census: 2% of Muslims in Palestine were born outside it (Christians 20%, Jews 58%). Unrecorded entries since 1922: about 4,000 Arabs, 9,000 Jews. Porath: births drove Arab growth.
SOURCE
Palestine census 1931 (as summarised in Demographic history of Palestine); Porath, NYRB 1986
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