Statistics of Aging Population 2017

An increase in the number of older people in indonesia is a “sign” that development in this country has yielded a great result. Yet, on the other hand, this also brings complicated consequences. There are many challenges come to various aspects of life as the result of aging population. Thus, an elderly development program that can protect the older people’s lives in Indonesia is needed. According to this phenomenon, BPS tries to accomodate the need of concrete and comprehensive elderly data then write them down in the form of Statistics of Aging Population 2017. Through this book we can know how the ability and human resource condition of older people in Indonesia is. This is annual publication that contains macro informations about demography, education, health, economic and social condition, and also older people access to various protection and empowerment facilities for quality improvement of their lives. The data used in this publication is mostly from the National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas) in 2017, the National Labor Force Survey (Sakernas) in 2017 and secondary data from Ministries / Agencies.