דער קערפער פֿון השם"#Rogan’s response when #Saad asked if knew how many #Jews there were in the world. After musing about a total world population of about seven billion, Rogan’s initial guess was one billion Jews.
He then backed off and said he would be conservative, and guessed there were 500 million Jews in the world. A fact checker then displayed a slide with figures from the #Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, showing that the world #Jewish #population is about 15.5 million — still below the pre-#Holocaust number of somewhere between 16 and 17 million.
Rogan certainly isn’t the only one to overestimate #Jewishpopulation numbers, although his estimate may take the prize. #ArnoRosenfeld reported the results of a recent #survey in 2022, indicating that #Americans think 30% of the country is Jewish, a sum 15 times the actual proportion of only 2 percent."
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