Israel
State of Israel
- Region
- Asia · Western Asia
- Capital
- Jerusalem
- Population
- 10,122,800 (2025)
- Government
- parliamentary democracy
- Currency
- Israeli new shekel (ILS)
- Official languages
- Arabic, Hebrew
- Spoken languages
- Hebrew (official), Arabic (special status under Israeli law), English (most commonly used foreign language)
- Written scripts
- Arabic, Hebrew
- Area
- 20,770 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- IMF, OECD, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Egypt , Jordan , Lebanon , Palestine , Syria
Political stability
48 / 100
Economic stability
72 / 100
Population stability
74 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- integrated circuits, diamonds, broadcasting equipment, medical instruments, refined petroleum (2023)
- Key imports
- cars, diamonds, crude petroleum, broadcasting equipment, garments (2023)
- Natural resources
- timber, potash, copper ore, natural gas, phosphate rock, magnesium bromide, clays, sand
- Primary route
- Gulf and Red Sea hubs (Jebel Ali, Jeddah) on Asia–Europe lanes
- Secondary route
- Suez Canal corridor to the Mediterranean
The xin.bz view
- Israel’s ICL produces potash from Dead Sea brines (2M t K2O in 2025, ~4.1% of world output) — supply diversification away from conventional underground mining regions, but routed through ports and shipping lanes inside an active security environment.
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Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.