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Figure 4: Population according to age, Source: Kohler/Behrman (2017: 4)
The same development towards an ageing society can also be seen if we take the median age
as indicator. Median age is the age that divides a population into two numerically equal groups
- that is, half the people are younger than this age and half are older.

1990 21.30
2015 28.01

2040 34.33
Table 5: Median Age in Indonesia, Data from Database Global Political Demography v1_20171006

As table 5 shows, the median age in Indonesia has increased significantly. However, even by
2040, Indonesia will not yet have an ‘old’ population age structure. In 2015 in countries such
as Germany or Japan already had a median age above 46 years.

Nevertheless the number of old people will rise to a great extent as can be seen in table 6.
Particularly the number of older people above 80 years will more than double in the years
between 2015 and 2040

Population above Population above
65 years 80 years

1990 3.78 % 0.43 %
2015 5.10 % 0.65 %

2040 11.15 % 1.48 %
Table 6: Proportion of Old People in Indonesia, Data from Database Global Political Demography v1_20171006

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