24% of Indonesia's Elderly Population Smoked in 2024

According to a report by the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS), 12% of Indonesia's population was aged 60 and above, or in the elderly (lansia) group, as of March 2024.

Of this group, 24.01% reported smoking in the past month. This breaks down to 21.96% who smoked daily and 2.05% who smoked but not daily.

Meanwhile, the proportion of elderly individuals who had never smoked reached 74.07% in March 2024. Furthermore, 1.93% of the elderly chose to quit smoking.

The highest proportion of elderly smokers was recorded among men, at 48.44%. The percentage of elderly women who smoked was only 1.64%.

The BPS recorded that, in March 2024, 42.81% of the elderly experienced health complaints in the past month, with a morbidity rate of 20.71%.

This morbidity rate indicates the elderly whose health complaints interfered with their daily activities.

"The health condition of the elderly reflects their lifestyle, for example, smoking habits," wrote the BPS in its report titled *Statistics of the Elderly Population 2024*.

Note that this data comes from the National Socioeconomic Survey (Susenas) conducted by the BPS in March 2024. The survey involved 345,000 household samples spread across 34 provinces and 514 regencies/cities in Indonesia.