Economy — Indonesia
GDP, employment, industries, public finance, and currency.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Economy at a glance
GDP, employment, industries, public finance, and currency. Key figure for Indonesia: Indonesia, the largest economy in Southeast Asia, has seen a slowdown in growth since 2012, mostly due to the end of the commodities export boom. During the global financial crisis, Indonesia outperformed its regional neighbors and joined China and India as the only G20 members posting growth. Indonesia’s annual…
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Economic overview
- Economic Overview
Indonesia, the largest economy in Southeast Asia, has seen a slowdown in growth since 2012, mostly due to the end of the commodities export boom.
During the global financial crisis, Indonesia outperformed its regional neighbors and joined China and India as the only G20 members posting growth.
Indonesia’s annual budget deficit is capped at 3% of GDP, and the Government of Indonesia lowered its debt-to-GDP ratio from a peak of 100% shortly after the Asian financial crisis in 1999 to 34% today.
In May 2017 Standard & Poor’s became the last major ratings agency to upgrade Indonesia’s sovereign credit rating to investment grade.
Poverty and unemployment, inadequate infrastructure, corruption, a complex regulatory environment, and unequal resource distribution among its regions are still part of Indonesia’s economic landscape.
President Joko WIDODO - elected in July 2014 – seeks to develop Indonesia’s maritime resources and pursue other infrastructure development, including significantly increasing its electrical power generation capacity.
Fuel subsidies were significantly reduced in early 2015, a move which has helped the government redirect its spending to development priorities.
Indonesia, with the nine other ASEAN members, will continue to move towards participation in the ASEAN Economic Community, though full implementation of economic integration has not yet materialized.
- Industries
petroleum and natural gas, textiles, apparel, footwear, mining, cement, chemical fertilizers, plywood, rubber, food, tourism
- GDP - per capita (PPP)
$11,300.00 (USD)
- GDP - real growth rate
4.7%
GDP & growth
- GDP - Gross Domestic Product (PPP)
$3,130,470,000,000 (USD)
- GDP Per Capita
$11,300.00 (USD)
- GDP - real growth rate
4.7%
- GDP - official exchange rate
$872,600,000,000 (USD)
- GDP - composition, by end use
- household consumption: 56.8%
- government consumption: 9.4%
- investment in fixed capital: 32.3%
- investment in inventories: 1.2%
- exports of goods and services: 21.7%
- imports of goods and services: -21.4%
- GDP by Sector- agriculture
13.6%
- GDP by Sector- Industry
42.8%
- GDP by Sector- services
43.6%
- Industrial Growth Rate
3.6%
Prices & money
- Inflation Rate
5.1%
- Exchange Rate per US Dollar
Indonesian rupiah (IDR)
- Currency Name and Code
Rupiah (IDR)
- Fiscal Year
calendar year; note - previously was 1 April - 31
- Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
12.1%
- Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate - note
note: these figures represent the average annualized rate on working capital loans
Employment & labor
- Labor Force
116,500,000
- Unemployment Rate
7.1%
- Major Industries
petroleum and natural gas, textiles, apparel, footwear, mining, cement, chemical fertilizers, plywood, rubber, food, tourism
- Agriculture Products
rice, cassava (tapioca), peanuts, rubber, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, copra, poultry, beef, pork, eggs
- Population Below Poverty Line
13.33%
- Child Labor - # of children ages 5-14
4,026,285
- Child Labor - % of children ages 5-14
7%
- Child Labor - note
note: data represents children ages 5-17
Public finance
- Annual Budget
$119,500,000,000 (USD)
- Public Debt (% of GDP)
52.6%
- Budget Surplus or Deficit - percent of GDP
-3.3%
- Taxes and other revenues - percent of GDP
15.8%
