In 1990-2004, the median age of the migrants to Israel was 33.6 years. In 2009, when a new increase in FSU immigration to Israel occurred, it was even lower – 33.1 years. In 1991-2004, this indicator was much higher for migrants to the USA and especially to Germany: 40.2 and 45.5 years, respectively.
Annual rate of out-migration for the immigrants from the FSU as a whole who arrived in Israel since 1990 was highest in 1992, shortly after the greatest wave of FSU immigrants arrived in Israel during the previous two years, – 16 per 1,000. Over the following years, the rate decreased rather steadily, and in 1999 it fell to 8 per 1,000. By 2002, it had returned to the level of 1995 – 12 per 1,000 and was at the same level in 2003. Since 2004 the rate has been falling and by 2009, the last year for which we have data, it returned to its lowest level of 6 per 1,000.