28, May 2012, CEST. Welcome to the West Bank economic statistics pages provided by the beta version of EconomyWatch.com's Econ Stats database.

Economic Indicators For: West Bank (Palestine) › Change country
National or Regional Currency: ,
Year of data: 2010 › Change year
Number of Indicators Listed:
Full Dataset: From Year 1980 to 2016
Date of Last Update: 1st August 2011
Population: 2,568,555 (July 2010 est.) note: approximately 296,700 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank (2009 est.); approximately 192,800 Israeli settlers live in East Jerusalem (2008 est.) (July 2011 est.)
Area: total: 5,860 sq km land: 5,640 sq km water: 220 sq km note: includes West Bank, Latrun Salient, and the northwest quarter of the Dead Sea, but excludes Mt. Scopus; East Jerusalem and Jerusalem No Man's Land are also included only as a means of depicting the entire area occupied by Israel in 1967
Natural Resources: arable land
Data Sources: IMF, World Bank, UN, OECD, CIA World Factbook, Internet World Statistics, The Heritage Foundation and Transparency International

The West Bank - the larger of the two areas comprising the Palestinian Authority (PA) - has experienced a general decline in the economic environment since the second intifada. The downturn has been largely a result of Israeli closure policies - the imposition of closures and access restrictions in response to security concerns in Israel - which disrupted workforce and trading (importing and exporting) relationships. International aid to the West Bank and Gaza Strip prevented the complete collapse of its economy and permitted some reform in the state's financial operations.