![]() Fields operations began in February 1961, with enumeration and final verification being conducted in October. Just under half of the population aged ten and older could read and write in either Latin characters or a non-Latin script.Ībout 350,000 enumerators were enlisted by census officials at the Central Bureau of Statistics and at the provincial, regency, and district levels. The census also collected data on school attendance to facilitate education planning. Agriculture was the dominant industry, employing 72 percent of workers. ![]() Given that as many as one-fifth of rural youths were already unemployed, there was a question of whether Indonesia would be able to absorb a future surge of new workers. Demographers highlighted that the large proportion of young people presented a demographic challenge. One-third of the country's population was under the age of ten, and 65 percent of the population lived on the island of Java, which had been considered overpopulated as early as the 1930s. Instead, an estimated population for the region was included in the final census numbers.Īs the first census since 1930, when Indonesia was still a colony of the Netherlands, its data was used for planning the nation's future development. The census covered all territories in the country, but no enumeration was done in Indonesian-claimed Western New Guinea because it was under Dutch occupation. With a total population of 97,018,829, Indonesia was the world's fifth-most populous country at the time. ![]() ![]() The 1961 Indonesian census was the first census of Indonesia as a sovereign state. ![]()
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