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Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) has estimated that Indonesia`s population now totals 234.2 million, up from 205.1 million in 2000.

The BPS on its website monitored here, Wednesday, said the ongoing 2010 census was counting the members of 65 million households throughout the country.

The census was being carried out by about 600,000 field officers recruited in the respective localities to ensure their familiarity with the conditions of their working areas.

They are recording among other things information on individual family members, the conditions of their housing facilities and buildings, and the characteristics of households.

The census also aims at evaluating the achievements in efforts to realize the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

This year`s population census is the sixth modern one ever held by Indonesia. The previous censuses were done in 1961, 1971, 1980, 1990 and 2000.

According to the results of the 2000 population census, the country`s population was 205.1 million, placing Indonesia as the fourth most populous country in the world after China, India and the United States.

Of the total, 121 million people or 60.1 percent lived on Java Island, making it the country`s most crowded island with an average density of 103 people per km2.
(Uu.F001/HAJM/P003)

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