Selected Indicators about Occupation Sites in the West Bank

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Value Indicator
  Number of Occupation Sites, 2017 *
150 Settlements
116 Outposts 
169 Others
435 Total
540.0  Jurisdiction Area of Occupation Sites (Km2), 2016:
1,016.0 Closed Military Bases area (Km2), 2016:
  Annexation and Expansion Wall, 2016:
488 Length of Completed Part (km)
714 Total Length (km)
88 Percentage of Settlers Inside the Wall of the Total Settlers Population
  Number of Settlers Compared with Total Jewish Population:
12,403 Number of Settlers in the West Bank, 1972
653,621 Number of Settlers in the West Bank, 2017
2,752,700 Number of Jewish in Historical Palestine and other Arab Occupied Land, 1972
6,554,500 Number of Jewish in Historical Palestine and other Arab Occupied Land, 2017

* Data presented in this table on the number of settlements, occupation sites are not consistent with what is reported from other sources due to the different definitions and classifications.
Sources:  Colonization & Wall Resistance Comission, 2018.  Settlements Database.
PLO Negotiations Affairs Department, July 2008.  Barrier to Peace:  Assessment of Israel’s Barrier Route.  Ramallah-Palestine.
Foundation for Middle East Peace, May-June 2007.  Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories, Vol. 17, No. 3, Washington D.C,
Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, 2018.  Statistical Abstract of Israel 2018 (No. 68).  Jerusalem.