Information of Development Of Indonesia’s Population

In 2000 the number of Indonesia’s population was 203,456,005. If we compare it with data of cencus in 1990, the number of Indonesia’s population was 179,321,641. So, in 10 years the number of Indonesia’s population grow by 3.4 million per year. If we consider the average growing rate of population in cencus 2000, it shows decrement of growing rate of population per year compared to the growing rate of population in year 1990. This proves the presence of indication of success in KB (Family Palnning) program that was launched by our country in 1970. If we Consider the development of world population from the side of quantity, Indonesia occupies the fourth rank, after United States. The Largest number of Population in the world is occupied by the people’s Republic of China, then India. Among Asian countries, Indonesia ranks third in number of population. Most people still live in Java Island. From that number, 17 percent of people live in West Java province, 15 percent live in Central Jav...