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Present-day Caesarea, Israel, is located midway between Tel Aviv and Haifa on the coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea. Herod the Great built the city, then known as Caesarea Maritima, around 25-13 B.C. as a major port. With no reliable source of fresh water, Herod commissioned a system of aqueducts (surviving section shown) to supply water from nearby Mount Carmel. The aqueducts delivered water for 1,200 years, until canals were built.
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Geography

Area

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People and Society

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Age structure

2024 population pyramid:
This is the population pyramid for Israel. A population pyramid illustrates the age and sex structure of a country's population and may provide insights about political and social stability, as well as economic development. The population is distributed along the horizontal axis, with males shown on the left and females on the right. The male and female populations are broken down into 5-year age groups represented as horizontal bars along the vertical axis, with the youngest age groups at the bottom and the oldest at the top. The shape of the population pyramid gradually evolves over time based on fertility, mortality, and international migration trends. <br/><br/>For additional information, please see the entry for Population pyramid on the Definitions and Notes page.

Median age

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Population growth rate

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Birth rate

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Death rate

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Net migration rate

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Maternal mortality ratio

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Infant mortality rate

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Total fertility rate

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Tobacco use

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Environment

Government

Economy

Real GDP growth rate

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Real GDP per capita

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Labor force

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Unemployment rate

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Taxes and other revenues

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Current account balance

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Exports

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Imports

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Energy

Communications

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Airports

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Heliports

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Merchant marine

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