Mortality Trends in Indonesia

Abstract

The depiction of the current mortality decline in Indonesia and its exact magnitude requires measures like the neonatal mortality rates, infant mortality rate, under-five mortality rate, or life expectancy that are ideally provided by the national civil registration system. However, civil registration remains inadequate in Indonesia and we have to rely on survey and census data to obtain reliable measures of mortality. Yet, these sources of data yield a wide range of estimates. In this paper, different approaches to measuring mortality rates are used leading to variations in the assessment of the progress made.