Palestine
State of Palestine
- Region
- Asia · Western Asia
- Capital
- Ramallah
- Population
- 5,413,596 (2025)
- Currencies
- Egyptian pound (EGP), Israeli new shekel (ILS), Jordanian dinar (JOD)
- Official languages
- Arabic
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, Hebrew (spoken by Israeli settlers and many Palestinians), English (widely understood)
- Written scripts
- Arabic
- Area
- 6,220 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- No
- Borders
- Israel , Egypt , Jordan
Political stability
34 / 100
Economic stability
30 / 100
Population stability
24 / 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
- scrap iron, tropical fruits, olive oil, building stone, prepared meat (2023)
- Key imports
- cement, raw sugar, cars, baked goods, perfumes (2023)
- Natural resources
- arable land
- 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
- Gaza’s reconstruction requirement is estimated around $71.4B (roughly $26.3B in the first 18 months), with over 80% of greenhouse infrastructure out of operation and heavy reliance on trucked water — latent import demand across food, water systems, materials, and energy that converts to cargo as access expands.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Raising the Middle East's Food and Water Needs — While War Is Rewriting How Supply Gets In and Energy Gets Out
Gulf desalination and grain buying, Egypt's Nile and Suez loops, Hormuz fertilizer constraints, and $280B+ in reconstruction demand — the Middle East sits on both sides of the El Niño shock.
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.