FACT CHECK · LAND AND MIGRATION: WHO CAME FROM WHERE, AND 1948
Claim: 1922 census: about 11% Jewish
TRUETHE ANSWER
The 1922 British census counted 83,790 Jews among 757,182 people, about 11%. By 1931: 174,610 of 1,035,821. The 1922 White Paper itself put the Jewish community at 'now numbering 80,000'.
SOURCE
British Mandate census 23 Oct 1922 and 1931, as tabulated in Wikipedia, Demographic history of Palestine (region)
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