@monte,
rhodescholar is right. There is a massive increase in the Muslim population between 1931 and 1941 -- the population nearly doubling in ten years. Its especially interesting given that in the previous ten years the population rose hardly at all. Surely, you can't be attributing this massive increase in growth to birth rates alone?
I don't make any claims, I let experts on the ground at the time state the facts. I just provide links to the facts. The massive increase was Jewish, 7 or 8 fold, the Muslim and Christian increase, about the same rate, was entirely due to natural increase. Those are the facts.
"UNITED
NATIONS
A
A/364
3 September 1947
OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE SECOND SESSION OF
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
SUPPLEMENT No. 11
UNITED NATIONS
SPECIAL COMMITTEE
ON PALESTINE
"(b) IMMIGRATION AND NATURAL INCREASE
15. These changes in the population have been brought about by two forces: natural increase and immigration. The great increase in the Jewish population is due in the main to immigration. From 1920 to 1946, the total number of recorded Jewish immigrants into Palestine was about 376,000, or an average of over 8,000 per year. The flow has not been regular, however, being fairly high in 1924 to 1926, falling in the next few years (there was a net emigration in 1927) and rising to even higher levels between 1933 and 1936 as a result of the Nazi persecution in Europe. Between the census year of 1931 and the year 1936, the proportion of Jews to the total population rose from 18 per cent to nearly 30 per cent.
16. The Arab population has increased almost entirely as a result of an excess of births over deaths. "
A/364 of 3 September 1947
Actually, we know your article is flawed.
The Arabs in Palestine
A Population Boom
As Hussein foresaw, the regeneration of Palestine, and the growth of its
population, came only after Jews returned in massive numbers. The Jewish population increased by 470,000 between World War I and World War II while the non-Jewish population rose by 588,000. In fact, the permanent Arab population increased 120 percent between 1922 and 1947.
This rapid growth was a result of several factors. One was
immigration from neighboring states — constituting 37 percent of the total immigration to
pre-state Israel — by Arabs who wanted to take advantage of the higher standard of living the Jews had made possible. The Arab population also grew because of the improved living conditions created by the Jews as they drained malarial swamps and brought improved sanitation and health care to the region. Thus, for example, the Muslim infant mortality rate fell from 201 per thousand in 1925 to 94 per thousand in 1945 and life expectancy rose from 37 years in 1926 to 49 in 1943.
The Arab population increased the most in cities with large Jewish populations that had created new economic opportunities. From 19221947, the non-Jewish population increased 290 percent in
Haifa, 131 percent in
Jerusalem and 158 percent in
Jaffa. The growth in Arab towns was more modest: 42 percent in Nablus, 78 percent in Jenin and 37 percent in
Bethlehem.