Editing Lombok (section)

== Demographics ==
[[File:Traditional Sasak Village Sade houses.JPG|thumb|left|Traditional Sasak houses.]]The island's inhabitants are 85% [[Sasak]], whose ancestors are thought to have migrated from Java in the first millennium BC.  Other residents include an estimated 10–15% [[Balinese people|Balinese]], with the small remainder being [[Chinese Indonesian|Chinese-Peranakan]] Indonesians, [[Javanese people|Javanese]], [[Sumbawa people|Sumbawa]] and [[Arab Indonesian]]s.

The Sasak population are culturally and linguistically closely related to the Balinese, but unlike the Hindu Balinese, the majority are Muslim and the landscape is punctuated with mosques and minarets. Islamic traditions and holidays influence the Island's daily activities.

In 2008 the Island of Lombok had 866,838 households and an average of 3.635 persons per household.<ref>{{cite web| title=By Regency / Municipality in West Nusa Tenggara Year 2008| publisher =Badan Pusat Statistik Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Barat (Central Bureau of Statistics West Nusa Tenggara Province).| date=December 11, 2009| url=http://missjoaquim.com/jumlah-rumah-tangga-dan-rata-rata-anggota-rumah-tangga-menurut-kabupatenkota-di-provinsi-ntb-tahun-2008/| access-date=30 August 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821125710/http://missjoaquim.com/jumlah-rumah-tangga-dan-rata-rata-anggota-rumah-tangga-menurut-kabupatenkota-di-provinsi-ntb-tahun-2008/| archive-date=2017-08-21| url-status=dead}}</ref> The 2020 census recorded a population of 5,320,092 people<ref name="westnusatenggarapopulation">{{Cite web |date=19 August 2017 |title=Lombok Island & West Nusa Tenggara Demography & Gender Ratio (Based on BPS 2014 Census) |url=http://marlionllc.com/lombok-ntb-demography-2014-census/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819231724/http://marlionllc.com/lombok-ntb-demography-2014-census/ |archive-date=2017-08-19 |access-date=2017-08-19 |website=marlionllc.com |language=en}}</ref> in the province of [[Nusa Tenggara Barat|NTB]]; the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 5,590,359 of which over 70.9% reside on Lombok, giving it a population of 3,963,842 at that date.<ref>Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2024, ''Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Barat Dalam Angka 2024'' (Katalog-BPS 1102001.52)</ref>