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Population in Indonesia compared to Taiwan: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Indonesia was 283,487,931 in 2024 vs 23,410,331 people in Taiwan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Indonesia's population is 287,460,768 people compared to 23,308,308 in Taiwan.

Population statistics:

  • Indonesia's population is 12.3 times bigger than Taiwan's.
  • Indonesia is ranked the 4th most populous country in the world, while Taiwan is the 60th.
  • The countries together account for 3.76% of the world: 3.48% for Indonesia vs 0.28% for Taiwan.
  • For the last 10 years, Indonesia has had an average growth rate of +0.94% per year vs +0.03% in Taiwan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Indonesia has increased from 231M people to 287M (24.5% growth), while Taiwan has grown from 22.7M to 23.3M (2.55% growth).
  • Indonesia is projected to reach its peak in 2058 at 323M people, while Taiwan's population already peaked in 2019 at 23.6M people and is projected to decrease to 10.1M people by 2100.

Indonesia vs Taiwan: live population counter

Indonesia Taiwan
Current population
287460768
23308308
Population rank 4/197 60/197
Percent of world population 3.48% 0.28%
One net population change
13.7 seconds
7.75 minutes
One birth every
7.04 seconds
3.9 minutes
One death every
14.9 seconds
2.6 minutes
One migration net change every
13.7 minutes
11.2 minutes
Annual migration change -38,469 +47,029
Daily growth/decline +6,296 +186
Annual growth/decline +2,297,864 +67,790
Annual growth/decline rate +0.82% +0.29%
Population growth rate rank 117/197 150/197

Indonesia and Taiwan: population history and growth rate by year chart

Indonesia
Population

Growth rate
Taiwan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Indonesia Taiwan Indonesia Taiwan
1960 88,296,070 - - -
1961 90,791,249 11,030,385 2.83% -
1962 93,375,850 11,392,513 2.85% 3.28%
1963 96,051,424 11,762,101 2.87% 3.24%
1964 98,833,749 12,137,143 2.9% 3.19%
1965 101,365,130 12,511,863 2.56% 3.09%
1966 103,792,754 12,874,153 2.39% 2.9%
1967 106,526,393 13,210,344 2.63% 2.61%
1968 109,450,006 13,548,537 2.74% 2.56%
1969 112,517,639 14,068,984 2.8% 3.84%
1970 115,657,495 14,582,944 2.79% 3.65%
1971 118,833,702 14,913,564 2.75% 2.27%
1972 122,039,841 15,220,495 2.7% 2.06%
1973 125,288,515 15,505,121 2.66% 1.87%
1974 128,555,045 15,784,817 2.61% 1.8%
1975 131,843,848 16,075,128 2.56% 1.84%
1976 135,173,655 16,401,413 2.53% 2.03%
1977 138,533,541 16,730,895 2.49% 2.01%
1978 141,953,163 17,042,272 2.47% 1.86%
1979 145,434,834 17,372,779 2.45% 1.94%
1980 148,950,540 17,704,538 2.42% 1.91%
1981 152,485,035 18,029,982 2.37% 1.84%
1982 156,052,152 18,354,855 2.34% 1.8%
1983 159,651,381 18,653,146 2.31% 1.63%
1984 163,251,124 18,929,866 2.25% 1.48%
1985 166,776,185 19,191,510 2.16% 1.38%
1986 170,175,065 19,411,454 2.04% 1.15%
1987 173,511,154 19,617,046 1.96% 1.06%
1988 176,855,065 19,839,704 1.93% 1.14%
1989 180,201,630 20,055,492 1.89% 1.09%
1990 183,501,098 20,278,946 1.83% 1.11%
1991 186,778,238 20,503,568 1.79% 1.11%
1992 190,043,744 20,704,227 1.75% 0.98%
1993 193,305,168 20,899,019 1.72% 0.94%
1994 196,591,828 21,086,645 1.7% 0.9%
1995 199,888,057 21,267,653 1.68% 0.86%
1996 203,204,348 21,441,432 1.66% 0.82%
1997 206,536,095 21,634,124 1.64% 0.9%
1998 209,826,788 21,835,703 1.59% 0.93%
1999 213,004,668 22,010,489 1.51% 0.8%
2000 216,077,790 22,184,530 1.44% 0.79%
2001 219,097,902 22,341,120 1.4% 0.71%
2002 222,088,495 22,463,172 1.36% 0.55%
2003 225,048,008 22,562,663 1.33% 0.44%
2004 227,926,649 22,646,836 1.28% 0.37%
2005 230,871,650 22,729,753 1.29% 0.37%
2006 233,951,652 22,823,455 1.33% 0.41%
2007 237,062,337 22,917,444 1.33% 0.41%
2008 240,157,903 22,997,696 1.31% 0.35%
2009 243,220,028 23,078,402 1.28% 0.35%
2010 246,305,322 23,140,948 1.27% 0.27%
2011 249,470,032 23,193,518 1.28% 0.23%
2012 252,698,525 23,270,367 1.29% 0.33%
2013 255,852,467 23,344,670 1.25% 0.32%
2014 258,877,399 23,403,635 1.18% 0.25%
2015 261,799,249 23,462,914 1.13% 0.25%
2016 264,627,418 23,515,945 1.08% 0.23%
2017 267,346,658 23,555,522 1.03% 0.17%
2018 269,951,846 23,580,080 0.97% 0.1%
2019 272,489,381 23,596,027 0.94% 0.07%
2020 274,814,866 23,582,179 0.85% -0.06%
2021 276,758,053 23,468,275 0.71% -0.48%
2022 278,830,529 23,319,977 0.75% -0.63%
2023 281,190,067 23,342,541 0.85% 0.1%
2024 283,487,931 23,410,331 0.82% 0.29%
2025 285,721,231 23,308,308 0.79% -0.44%
2026 287,886,778 23,205,944 0.76% -0.44%
2027 289,986,520 23,102,120 0.73% -0.45%
2028 292,016,774 22,996,693 0.7% -0.46%
2029 293,978,106 22,890,335 0.67% -0.46%
2030 295,876,644 22,781,040 0.65% -0.48%
2031 297,719,741 22,667,327 0.62% -0.5%
2032 299,510,654 22,549,689 0.6% -0.52%
2033 301,250,975 22,428,721 0.58% -0.54%
2034 302,938,571 22,302,402 0.56% -0.56%
2035 304,566,615 22,170,689 0.54% -0.59%
2036 306,135,097 22,034,775 0.51% -0.61%
2037 307,646,407 21,893,029 0.49% -0.64%
2038 309,096,450 21,746,001 0.47% -0.67%
2039 310,481,116 21,594,236 0.45% -0.7%
2040 311,797,391 21,436,947 0.42% -0.73%
2041 313,041,656 21,274,187 0.4% -0.76%
2042 314,211,278 21,105,682 0.37% -0.79%
2043 315,304,309 20,932,105 0.35% -0.82%
2044 316,318,412 20,754,623 0.32% -0.85%
2045 317,249,609 20,571,741 0.29% -0.88%
2046 318,096,567 20,384,903 0.27% -0.91%
2047 318,862,018 20,194,425 0.24% -0.93%
2048 319,554,646 19,999,753 0.22% -0.96%
2049 320,173,244 19,801,293 0.19% -0.99%
2050 320,712,941 19,598,997 0.17% -1.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Indonesia increased by 30,927,599 people (a 13.4% growth), while Taiwan gained 733,161 people (a 3.23% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Indonesia gained 25,661,519 (a 9.8% growth), while Taiwan's population decreased by -154,606 (a 0.66% decline).

Indonesia was ranked 4th most populous country in 2005 and is still 4th in 2025. Taiwan was ranked 48th in 2005 and ranked 60th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Indonesia's population will grow by 11.6% to 320,712,941 people with a rank change from 4th to 6th. The population of Taiwan will decrease by 15.9% to 19,598,997 people and rank change from 60th to 76th.

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