Jayapura, Papua – Population in the Indonesian province of Papua currently reached 4.30 million, or rose by some 1.47 million, from that in 2010, according to Stats Indonesia (BPS).
The existing figure of the province’s total population was based upon the outcome of the 2020 Population Census, Head of the BPS-Papua Office Adriana Helena Carolina mentioned here on Saturday.
13, or still goes beyond Indonesia’s average population development rate that stands at 1.
Some 92.83 percent of Papua’s total population, or equivalent to 3.99 million individuals, have property address as stated in their Family Cards (KK) and Identity Cards (KTP), Carolina mentioned.
On the other hand, the remaining 7.17 percent, or 308 thousand locals, reside in locations whose addresses do not match with those mentioned on their KK and KTP, she mentioned, adding that this fact revealed that the migration rate was high enough.
The result of in 2015’s population census likewise showed that members of the so-called Millennial and Z generations made up the huge bulk of Papua’s population, she remarked.
The millennials comprise 32.09 percent of Papua’s overall population, while those from the Z generation constitute 30.38 percent of the province’s total people.
30 million members of the Z generation are from the unproductive and efficient age brackets.
Some 7 years after 2021, those belonging to the Z generation will all have reached the efficient age group.
This truth would provide opportunities and challenges because they would possibly end up being the stars of Papua’s future advancement, she said.
The BPS taped that 54.1 million Indonesians had actually registered for in 2015’s population census conducted online from February 15, 2020, to May 29, 2020.
” This number is huge considering that it is comparable to nearly twice as much as Australia’s population. It is an extremely motivating achievement, bearing in mind that this is the very first population census performed online in Indonesia,” BPS Head Suhariyanto mentioned on August 31,2020
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