The Central Bureau of Statistics reported that in 2022, there were 57,233 individuals in Israel diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. This equates to 5.9 people for every 1,000 of the population or one in 167. Of those diagnosed, 77% were male, 81% were under 18 years old and 92% were Jewish. Among Jewish individuals, 42% had an Ashkenazi father while 26% had a Sephardic father. Additionally, 46% of those diagnosed with autism had at least one additional disability and 9% had two or more diagnoses.
Over the past two decades, the number of individuals diagnosed with autism has increased significantly. For instance, among those born in 2000, there were only four children per thousand diagnosed compared to nearly twenty-two children per thousand among those born in
