This template contains various independently retrievable data items about Israel in the form of parameter values of a variable template of choice, in a standardized fashion. It is a member of a family of templates, those with names starting with "Data" in Category:Data templates. The system used is similar to that of Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template. The corresponding template of that project is Template:Country data Israel.
Parameter name | Value | Meaning |
---|---|---|
1
|
Israel |
last part of template name, used to identify it within the family of templates[1] |
article |
article name; needs to be specified only if it differs from Israel ; in applications, use [[(({article|(({1))))))]] to link to the article (as has been done at the top of this page)
| |
short name |
shorter display name to be used in some contexts; an application or application parameter can specify whether this is used; only intended for dispensing with disambiguation in a context where it is not needed | |
type |
country |
type of entity, e.g. continent, country, province, municipality |
code |
code | |
code description |
code description | |
continent |
Asia |
continent, if type is lower than "continent" |
country |
country, if type is lower than "country" | |
province |
province, if type is lower than "province" | |
popbase
|
9,656,000
|
population on a given date (stored without commas) |
popbaseyear
|
2022
|
year for which the population base figure applies |
popbasemonth
|
12
|
month for which the population base figure applies |
popbaseday
|
31
|
day for which the population base figure applies |
popinc
|
480
|
population increase per day; used to extrapolate the population figure |
land area
|
21,632
|
land area in km2 (stored without commas) |
total area
|
22,072
|
total area in km2 (stored without commas) |
flag image
|
Flag of Israel.svg
|
name of the flag image (or other illustration, if there is no flag) shown above |
Throughout the family of templates, fixed names are used for the parameters. (The parameter names are kept short to reduce counts for the post expand include size and the template argument size in cases where these are applicable.) However, not necessarily all parameters have been given a value: some parameters may not be applicable, while for some other parameters the value may just have not been specified yet. The table shows all parameters, and for each the value, if specified.
As of May 31, 2024, the population is approximately 9,904,160 (estimated by extrapolation), which is 0.122% of the world's population.
The total area is 22,072 square kilometres (8,522 sq mi), which is 148 ppm of the land area of the world. The water area is 2% of the total area.
The population density is 457.8 per square kilometre (1,185.7/sq mi) land area. The population density is 448.7 per square kilometre (1,162.1/sq mi) total area.
((data Israel|pst2|land area))
, using parameter selection template Template:Pst2, gives the parameter land area, etc.
For retrieval of more data items it is more efficient to prepare a template for that, to be used as follows:
((data Israel|
template name|..|..|..|..))
so that this data template needs to be called only once.[2] The default template is Template:Show data, producing this page.
The four parameters are optional, they are passed on to the prepared template as parameters 2-5.
Special templates:
A parameter being undefined or empty typically means the same, see below. ((data ..|pst2|..))
gives the empty string and the text "(({..))}
", respectively. Therefore an application checking the parameter has to check both. Checking whether a result is equal to e.g. the text "480
" cannot be done directly with #ifeq in a template which itself has also a parameter with that name, because if that is defined, there would be a comparison with the value instead of the text itself. Instead, it can be checked whether the first character of the result is "{
", e.g.: ((#ifeq:((padleft:|1|((data (({continent))}|pst2|popinc))))|{|..|..))
.