Approximately 196,000 Holocaust survivors are alive globally, with half of those living in Israel, data from the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany showed on Tuesday.
This is a decrease from the conference's January 2025 data, which estimated that approximately 220,000 survivors were alive at the time.
The conference broke down where the remaining survivors are believed to be living. Approximately half (97,600) are living in Israel, 16% (31,000) are in the US, 9% (17,300) are in France, 7% (14,300) are in Russia, 5% (10,700) are in Germany. Other survivors are in countries including Ukraine, Canada, Hungary, Australia, and Belarus, all of which have over 1,000 survivors.
Almost all remaining Holocaust survivors were children at the time
Nearly all of the remaining survivors, at 97%, are classified as "child survivors," and were born in 1928 and afterwards, the conference noted.
The median age of remaining survivors is 87 years old, just over 1% are over 100 years old, and approximately 30% are at least 90 years old, the data showed.
A majority, 62%, are female, compared with male survivors, who only make up 38%.
The conference was established in 1951 following negotiations among 23 national and international Jewish organizations and the then-West German chancellor, Konrad Adenauer's government.