Indonesia's Population Reaches 288.3 Million as of End of 2025

The Directorate General of Population and Civil Registration of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Teguh Setyabudi, announced that Indonesia’s population reached 288,315,089 people as of 31 December 2025. This figure represents an increase of approximately 1.6 million people compared with data from the first semester of 2025.

“Compared with the first semester as of 30 June 2025, Indonesia’s population increased by roughly 1.6 million,” stated Teguh in an official statement issued on Friday, 13 March 2026.

Teguh explained that of the total population, 145,498,082 were male and 142,816,997 were female. This composition shows that Indonesia’s population remains predominantly male.

By geographic distribution, the island of Java remains the region with the largest population. A total of 55.81 per cent of Indonesia’s population resides on Java, followed by the island of Sumatra with 21.88 per cent.

Based on religious composition, the majority of Indonesia’s population practise Islam, accounting for 87.15 per cent. This is followed by Christians at 7.37 per cent, Catholics at 3.07 per cent, Hindus at 1.66 per cent, Buddhists at 0.69 per cent, Confucianists at 0.03 per cent, and those practising traditional beliefs at 0.034 per cent.

Teguh also presented data on the population by marital status. Of the total population, approximately 131 million people have never married, 137 million are married, 5 million are divorced and alive, and 14 million are widowed. “This means that actually more of Indonesia’s population is married or has been married,” he noted.

Additionally, the population of working age—those between 15 and 64 years old—reached approximately 199 million people or 69.03 per cent of the total population. Teguh stated that this composition indicates Indonesia remains in a period of demographic dividend.

“Looking at the productive age population of 69.03 per cent, this is something we should be grateful for. We still have this demographic dividend until 2030. The question is how we can optimise this productive-age population,” he said.

According to Teguh, population data is released on a regular basis in accordance with the mandate of Law Number 24 of 2013 on Population Administration. Under this regulation, the Directorate General of Population and Civil Registration releases data twice annually, on 30 June and 31 December.