THE Five largest cities in Israel ARE:
POPULATION OF THE LARGEST CITY:
795,324
RANK SIZE RULE TEST:
ESTIMATED POP.Tel Aviv-Yafo397,662
Haifa265,108
Rishon LeẔiyyon198,831
Ashdod159,065
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ACTUAL POP.Tel Aviv-Yafo436,306
Haifa270,733
Rishon LeẔiyyon249,960
Ashdod243,746
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In Israel the rank size rule is only semi- effective because even though it appears to be close in prediction with the city of Haifa, the prediction is too far off to be effective in the city of Ashdod where it leaves 84,681 people unaccounted for. There is no correlation between the different cities and there estimate from the rank size rule.
population7,906,000
population density355
% urban population92%
% urban population living in slumsn/a
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average % change in urban population1.7%
% with improved urban sanitation100%
% with improved water supply100%
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