1.7 Million Elderly in Indonesia Will Live Alone by 2025

According to data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), the number of elderly (lansia) or people aged 60 and above in Indonesia is projected to reach 33.94 million people in 2025.

This proportion of elderly people is equivalent to 11.93% of the national population, which totals 284.44 million people.

Most elderly people in Indonesia live with their families, either with their spouse, nuclear family (children/in-laws or parents/parents-in-law), or three-generation families (children/in-laws and grandchildren, or children/in-laws and parents/parents-in-law).

However, a significant number of elderly people also live alone, totaling approximately 1.71 million people.

Below are the details of the elderly population in Indonesia based on household living arrangements in 2025:

• With nuclear family: 12.25 million people (36.08% of the total elderly in Indonesia)
• With three generations: 11.35 million people (33.44%)
• With spouse: 7.77 million people (22.9%)
• Living alone: 1.71 million people (5.03%)
• Others: 865.6 thousand people (2.55%)