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Index / Peoples
Druze
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Druze by country
Last column: % Druze of the population |
| Israel |
120,000 |
1.6% |
| Jordan |
15,000 |
0.2% |
| Lebanon |
210,000 |
5.7% |
| Syria |
300,000 |
1.7% |
TOTAL *)
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650,000 |
0.1% |
| Other countries: 75,000 |
*) Calculated for the total population of North Africa and the Middle East, approx. 460,000,000.
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The Druze are identified as a people, due to their religion, the Druze religion. As ethnic group they do not distinguish themselves from neighbouring peoples, and attempts into identifying their ethnicity, recreate a combination of Arab and Aramaic ancestry.. In Syria they are distinguished from the Arab majority as group itself; in Israel as a sub-group of Arabs; in Lebanon and Jordan as an integrated part of the Arab population.
Druze speak Arabic without a distinguishable dialect from neighbouring peoples.
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