Active involvement of the Division in a consulting capacity in several countries worldwide resulted in sociodemographic surveys in various countries (The United States, Lithuania, Moldova, Venezuela, Mexico, Italy); analysis of the most recent round of national censuses in the former Soviet Republics; and population research on the City of Jerusalem. It also allowed to produce broad comparisons on relevant topics such as Jewish international migration and aliyah; the Jewish family, intermarriage and its implications for contemporary Jewish identification; Jewish educational systems in the Diaspora; global and country estimates of Jewish Shoah survivors and assessing the needy among them; and Jewish population projections for Israel and Diaspora populations. The Division has achieved globally acknowledged status for the quality and extent of its work, and its senior staff are regularly invited to lecture at international professional conferences and in many foreign universities.

          The Division publishes the series Jewish Population Studies, which released so far 29 volumes of research monographs, periodical surveys of current studies, specialized bibliographies, and collections of papers presented at international conferences convened by the Division. The Division holds a unique bibliographic archive - now partly on-line - including thousands of items and references on Jewish population. Out of its work on current demographic trends and projections, the Division recently issued a new set of "Jewish Population Projections for World Jewry, 2000-2080", "The Population of Jerusalem 1995-2020" and "Population Projections in Israel and Palestine, 2000-2050". No other academic body at the Hebrew University, or at any other university in Israel or abroad performs research duties of a similar global scope in the field of Jewish population studies.

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