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from INDONESIA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2015
Ageing Population in Indonesia
Japan has the highest percentage of older persons in the world. In 2010 its older persons (aged 65 and over) constituted a large percentage (22.7 per cent) of the total population, followed by Germany (about 20.4 per cent), and Italy (about 20.4 per cent). Clearly, in these countries, the ageing population (the process of a rising number and percentage of older persons) has created a tremendous financial burden for the society and government. Though the percentage of older persons is not as high as in these countries, Singapore already feels the pressure of a rapidly rising number and percentage of older persons, who formed 9 per cent of the total resident population in 2010. Older persons contributed 11.1 per cent of the total population in South Korea and 12.7 per cent in Hong Kong.
Many developing countries, including Indonesia, may not have faced the severe challenges of an ageing population such as in those countries cited above. Nevertheless, developing countries are confronted with a different set of challenges caused by their ageing population.
Indonesia has experienced a relatively fast decline in its fertility rate. Though its fertility has not been as low as in other countries, Indonesia has achieved replacement level fertility in 2010. Its older persons (measured by those aged 60 years old and over) were 7.6 per cent of the population in 2010, much lower than 14.1 per cent in Singapore in the same year, if Singapore's older persons are measured as those aged 60 years old and over. The percentage may look small, but it will rise to about 13.2 per cent in 2025, close to the condition in Singapore in 2010. Furthermore, in terms of size, Indonesia has 18 million older persons in 2010, very much larger than 0.5 million older persons in Singapore. In 2010 Indonesia had to feed this large number of older persons with per capita income of US$3,000, very much lower than US$44,790 in Singapore in the same year.
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