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Indonesia 2015 | Overview | Economy & Demographics

DEMOGRAPHICS

  • Total population: 253.6 million
  • Urban population: 53% of total population (2014)
  • Rate of urbanization: 2.69% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
  • Jakarta is only slightly bigger than Singapore but has double the population.
  • The population is expected to reach one billion people in the year 2100.

Source: GroupM

Centres of population

  • JAKARTA (capital) 10.176 million
  • Surabaya 2.834 million
  • Bandung 2.513 million
  • Medan 2.182 million
  • Semarang 1.614 million
  • Palembang 1.454 million (2014)

Population by age:

  • 0-14 years: 26.2% (male 33,854,520/female 32,648,568)
  • 15-24 years: 17.1% (male 22,067,716/female 21,291,548)
  • 25-54 years: 42.3% (male 54,500,650/female 52,723,359)
  • 55-64 years: 7.9% (male 9,257,637/female 10,780,724)
  • 65 years and over: 6.5% (male 7,176,865/female 9,308,056) (2014 est.)

Median age

  • Indonesia 29.2
  • China 36.7
  • India 27
  • Malaysia 27.7
  • US 37.6
  • UK 40.4
  • Japan 46.1

Literacy rate (% of population over 15 years who can read and write)

  • Indonesia 92.8
  • China 95.1
  • Malaysia 93.1

Land area

  • 1,904,569 sq km or approximately 735,000 square miles – about the same as the UK, France, Germany, and Spain combined – or slightly smaller than the US.

ECONOMY

GDP

  • $856.1 billion (2014 est.) about the same as the Netherlands
  • GDP growth rate - 5.2% (2014 est)
  • GDP per capita - $10,200 (2014 est.)

Foreign Direct Investment inflows (US$b)

  • Indonesia 18.4
  • China 258.2
  • India 28.2
  • Korea 12.2

(Source: OECD, 2013)

Ease of doing business

  • Indonesia ranks 114th out of 189 countries, with 1 being the most business-friendly

 

Internet users per 100 people

  • Indonesia 15.8
  • United States 84.2
  • Malaysia 67.0
  • Brazil 51.6
  • China 45.8
  • India 15.1

(Source: World Bank, 2013-14)

Mobile subscriptions per 100 people

  • Indonesia 125
  • UK 125
  • Japan 118
  • South Korea 111
  • US 96
  • China 89
  • India 71

Source: World Bank

Smartphone users as a % of mobile users

  • Indonesia 21.3% in 2014

(Source: Statista)

Sources: World Bank, CIA Factbook, OECD, Statista