Elderly Population to Increase

KOMPAS/FERGANATA INDRA RIATMOKO

Elderly people shop at Ngancar Market, Banyudono district, Boyolali, Central Java, on Sunday (18/8/2019). Central Java has one of the largest populations of the elderly in the country.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — Indonesia had a population of nearly 25 million in 2018. This figure is expected to rise threefold by Indonesia’s centennial in 2045. If they continue to burden the country’s working age population, efforts to establish high-quality human resources will be difficult to realize.

Indonesia will have an aging population starting in 2021, when more than 10 percent of its citizens will be elderly. The country experienced a baby boom in the 1960s and 1970s, and a growth in the elderly population early this century.