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