Dukcapil Releases Semester II 2025 Population Data, Recording Working-Age Population at 69.03 Per Cent

The Directorate General of Population and Civil Registration of the Ministry of Home Affairs has released the Clean Population Data (DKB) for Semester II 2025. The event was held under the theme “A Portrait of Indonesia’s Diversity in One National Population Database”.

Director General of Dukcapil Teguh Setyabudi stated that the composition of the working-age population based on Semester II 2025 data has reached 69.03 per cent of the total population. This means there are 199,026,595 people in the working-age group out of Indonesia’s total population of 288,315,089.

“This is extraordinary—69.03 per cent of Indonesia’s population is of productive age between 15 and 64 years old, although this figure has declined slightly compared to the first semester,” said Teguh at Hotel Bidakara in South Jakarta on Thursday, 12 March 2026.

The largest working-age group falls within the 40–44 age range with 14,866,704 people. Meanwhile, the 20–24 age group is the smallest with 7,311,079 people. “This represents a demographic dividend opportunity that must be leveraged to increase productivity and people’s welfare,” he said.

For Teguh, the dominance of the working-age population opens significant opportunities for Indonesia to strengthen economic competitiveness. His point is that Indonesia must be able to integrate population data with cross-sectoral development policies.

“This is what we are grateful for—that perhaps until 2030, that is what we call the demographic dividend,” he said.

Overall, the population in Semester II 2025 DKB increased by 1,621,396 people compared to Semester I 2025. The breakdown shows that of the 288,315,089 people, 145,498,092 are male and 142,816,997 are female.

“This ratio shows a slight excess of males, but it remains within normal demographic limits. The government typically monitors this ratio for long-term planning, for instance in reproductive health, education, and social welfare,” said Teguh.

The Clean Population Data also shows three provinces with the largest populations: West Java with 52.2 million people, East Java with 42.2 million people, and Central Java with 38.6 million people. Meanwhile, the three provinces with the smallest populations are West Papua and South Papua, each with around 588,000 people, and South West Papua with 632,000 people.

According to Teguh, this data serves as a portrait of diversity that illustrates how vast Indonesia is from Sabang to Merauke. He said it is like spreading a giant map before those present and viewers across Indonesia. “This data affirms that population density is indeed uneven, but everything remains integrated within one national population system,” he said.