Reply To: What percentage of conservative and reform are halachically jewish?

In past national Jewish population surveys, an entire household is counted as Jewish if the head of the household claims to be Jewish.

Based on this criteria, Jewish population estimates for the United States averages 6.75 million, with the Orthodox population estimated to be 700,000 at most.

I believe the majority of those who are not counted as Orthodox, are in fact not Jewish at all according to halachic standards. This is based on the fact that for the past fifty years, the intermarriage rate, outside of Orthodoxy, is close to 75%.