BPS Records Number Of Poor Population Reaches 23.85 Million People As Of March 2025

JAKARTA - The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded that the number of poor people in Indonesia as of March 2025 reached 23.85 million people or equivalent to 8.74 percent of the total population.

The number of poor people as of March 2025 decreased by 0.10 percentage points compared to September 2024 and decreased by 0.56 percentage points against March 2024.

Deputy for Social Statistics BPS Ateng Hartono said that the number of poor people in March 2025 was 23.85 million people, a decrease of 0.21 million people compared to the September 2024 period and a decrease of 1.37 million people to March 2024.

"As a comparison in September 2022 compared to March 2022, poverty increased 0.03 percent, then from March 2023 to March 2025 poverty gradually decreased," he said in a release of Poverty Profile data in Indonesia. March 2025 Condition and Indonesia Population Expenditure Inequality Level March 2025, Friday, July 25.

Ateng also said that BPS also recorded a percentage of poor people in urban areas in March 2025 of 6.73 percent, an increase compared to September 2024 which was 6.66 percent.

Meanwhile, the percentage of poor rural people in March 2025 was 11.03 percent, a decrease compared to September 2024 which was 11.34 percent.

Ateng added, compared to September 2024, the number of poor people in March 2025 urban areas increased by 0.22 million people from 11.05 million people in September 2024 to 11.27 million people in March 2025.

Meanwhile, in the same period, the number of rural poor people actually decreased by 0.43 million people from 13.01 million people in September 2024 to 12.58 million people in March 2025.