This very slight increase is indeed unusual, because in previous years, the HDI usually increased, from 0.5 to 0.6. However, by 2020, this did not happen since the HDI was almost flat. This is because COVID-19 had begun battering Indonesia since Marc
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Head Suhariyanto pointed to Indonesia's 2020 Human Development Index (HDI) of 71.94, or growing 0.03 percent, or an increase of 0.02 points from the previous year's achievements amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

"This very slight increase is indeed unusual, because in previous years, the HDI usually increased, from 0.5 to 0.6. However, by 2020, this did not happen since the HDI was almost flat. This is because COVID-19 had begun battering Indonesia since March 2020,” Suhariyanto stated during a virtual press conference, Tuesday.

Suhariyanto expounded that the slowdown in HDI growth in 2020 was significantly influenced by a decrease in the average expenditure per capita. This indicator decreased to Rp11.01 million in 2020, from Rp11.30 million in 2019.

In terms of education, in 2020, children, aged seven years, aspired to complete 12.98 years of education, or almost equivalent to the length of time to complete education up to Diploma I level.

This figure is an increase of 0.03 years as compared to the previous year wherein the figure had reached 12.95 years. In addition, the average length of schooling for people aged 25 years and above continues to increase by 0.14 years, from 8.34 years in 2019 to 8.48 years in 2020.

In terms of health, the life expectancy of infants born in 2020 reached up to 71.47 years, or 0.13 years longer than those born in the previous year.

In this decade, Indonesia showed continued progress in human development. Indonesia's HDI increased, from 66.53 in 2010 to 71.92 in 2019.

During this period, Indonesia's HDI grew by an average of 0.87 percent annually and increased from medium to high levels since 2016.

"The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a little change in the achievement of Indonesian human development," Suhariyanto remarked

The 2020 HDI was recorded at 71.94, or grew 0.03 percent, slower than the previous year's growth. With this achievement, the average HDI growth in 2010–2020 will be 0.78 percent per year.
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