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There are more than 600 ethnic groups [1] in the multicultural Indonesian archipelago, making it one of the most diverse countries in the world. The vast majority of these belong to the Austronesian peoples, concentrated in western and central Indonesia (), with a sizable minority are Melanesian peoples concentrated in eastern Indonesia ().
[3] [4] Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world. Approximately 55% of Indonesia's population resides on Java , which is the most populous island in the world . Despite a fairly effective family planning program that has been in place since 1967, [ 5 ] Indonesia's average population growth per year was over 1.1% for the decade ...
As of 2020, Indonesians make up 3.4% of the world's total population and Indonesia is the fourth most populous country after China, India and the United States.. Despite a fairly effective family planning program that has been in place since the 1967, [55] for the decade ending in 2020, Indonesia's population growth was 1.1 percent.
More than 600 ethnic groups reside in Indonesia. [1] Data on ethnic identities were collected nationally in national censuses, such as in the 2000 census and the 2010 census held by Statistics Indonesia. [2] [3] The following lists rank ethnic groups in Indonesia by population figures.
While people nowadays are enumerated by race based on self-identification, until 1950 their race on the census was mainly determined by their census enumerator. [177] During this time multiracial people who were White and of another race were usually marked down as belonging to the other race due to the One drop rule. [177]
Pribumi make up about 95% of the Indonesian population. [2] Using Indonesia's population estimate in 2006, this translates to about 230 million people. As an umbrella of similar cultural heritage among various ethnic groups in Indonesia, Pribumi culture plays a significant role in shaping the country's socioeconomic circumstances.
A Delinese Malay woman in the traditional wedding costume from North Sumatera, Indonesia. The Malay people in Indonesia fall into various sub-ethnicities with each having its own distinct linguistic variety, history, clothing, traditions, and a sense of common identity. According to Ananta et al. 2015, [30] Malay Indonesians include:
Islam is Indonesia's main religion, with almost 88% of Indonesians declared Muslim according to the 2000 census, [92] making Indonesia the most populous Muslim-majority nation in the world. The remaining population is 9% Christian (of which roughly two-thirds are Protestant with the remainder mainly Catholic , and a large minority Charismatic ...