Demographics
The inhabitants of Bayt Jiz were entirely Muslim, and in a 1922 survey, they amounted to 203. In the 1931 British Mandate census there were 370 inhabitants and by 1945, Sami Hadawi recorded a population of 550. The projected population in 1948 was 638. According to Salman Abu-Sitta, Palestinian refugees from Bayt Jiz and their descendants numbered 3,918 in 1998.
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