BPS States Indonesia's Population Growth Rate is Slowing

The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) reports that, based on the results of the 2025 Inter-Census Population Survey (SUPAS), Indonesia’s population growth rate has slowed. Indonesia’s population is still growing at a rate of 1.08 per cent per year over the last five years. This is slower compared to the 2020 census results, which recorded 1.10 per cent. “Indonesia’s population is still growing at a rate of 1.08 per cent per year over the last five years, and half of it is still concentrated on Java Island,” said BPS Chief Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti during a press conference in Jakarta on Tuesday. For information, BPS specifically released various population indicators from the 2025 Inter-Census Population Survey (SUPAS) data collection. SUPAS itself is conducted between two population census periods to obtain various demographic indicators such as fertility, mortality, and mobility. BPS reports that Indonesia’s population based on SUPAS 2025 reaches 284.67 million people; and 55.65 per cent of them are on Java Island. The population growth rate is recorded at 1.08 per cent per year, slowing from the last condition in the 2020 Long Form Population Census (LF SP2020) at 1.10 per cent. Based on age, around 68.92 per cent of Indonesia’s population consists of Gen Z (born 1997–2012), millennials (born 1981–1996), and post-Gen Z (born 2013 and above). The population dependency ratio based on SUPAS 2025 results reaches 45.05, meaning that every 100 working-age people support 45 non-working-age people. This figure is up from 44.33 in the LF SP2020 data collection.