Population
5.5M
Unitary provisional semi-presidential republic
GDP per capita, PPP
$5,000
in 2025
Passport power
#192
10 visa-free destinations
Cities rated
5
Top: Ramallah
Country overview
- Official name
- State of Palestine
- Capital
- Ramallah
- Continent
- Asia / Western Asia
- Area
- 6,220 km²
- Population
- 5.5M
- Density
- 840.4/km²
- Government
- Unitary provisional semi-presidential republic
- UN member
- No
- Independent
- No
- Driving side
- Right
- TLD
- .ps
- Calling code
- +970
- Timezone
- UTC+02:00
Visa and travel
- Passport power rank
- #192 of 199
- Visa-free destinations
- 10
- Total accessible
- 35
Culture and society
- Languages
- Arabic (العربية)
- Religions
- Islam 80.7%, Judaism 13.1%, Christianity 0.9%, Baha'i faith 0.1%
- Currencies
- E£ EGP — Egyptian pound, ₪ ILS — Israeli new shekel, JD JOD — Jordanian dinar
Key figures
- HDI
- 0.674
- GDP per capita (2025)
- $5,000
- Life expectancy (2024)
- 69.2 yrs
- Internet users (2023)
- 86.6%
- Gini index (2016)
- 33.7
- Inflation (2025)
- 9.8%
- Unemployment (2022)
- 24.4%
- Urban population (2025)
- 87.4%
- Life satisfaction (2025)
- 4.7/10
- PM2.5 (2024)
- 23.2 µg/m³
- Homicide rate (2022)
- 0.6/100k
- Human capital (2020)
- 0.58