In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Faqu'a had a population of 553; all Muslims,[REF] increasing in the 1931 census to 663; still all Muslims, in a total of 153 houses [REF].
In 1945 Faqqu'a had a population of 880 Muslims,[REF] and the jurisdiction of the village was 30,179 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey [REF].