Life expectancy at birth in Papua New Guinea was 43.3 years in 1956: 45.8 for women and 41.4 for men, a gap of 4.4 years. 33,736 people died; 5.0% of them were 65 or older and 53.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1956

Life expectancy at birth

43.3

Women

45.8

Men

41.4

Life expectancy at 65

10.7

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

144.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

223.8

Deaths

33,736

Deaths per 1,000 people

18.9

Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)

517

Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)

398

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1956's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1956

Deaths per 1,000 people per year in each age group. Logarithmic scale: each gridline is ten times the one below. Hover for exact values.

WomenMen

Show the life table data

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	148.34	172.32	45.8	41.4
1-4	24.99	24.21	51.9	47.9
5-9	6.88	7.16	53.1	48.6
10-14	4.37	4.22	49.9	45.2
15-19	5.96	6.41	45.9	41.2
20-24	7.41	10.24	42.2	37.4
25-29	8.21	10.86	38.7	34.2
30-34	9.11	11.92	35.3	31.0
35-39	10.06	13.87	31.8	27.8
40-44	11.18	16.53	28.3	24.6
45-49	12.37	19.68	24.8	21.5
50-54	15.85	24.61	21.2	18.4
55-59	21.11	30.99	17.7	15.5
60-64	31.87	43.52	14.4	12.7
65-69	47.12	60.78	11.5	10.2
70-74	74.58	90.21	8.9	7.9
75-79	112.24	131.23	6.8	6.1
80-84	166.53	191.88	5.1	4.6
85-89	236.99	266.88	3.9	3.5
90-94	322.09	355.92	3.0	2.7
95-99	434.28	476.83	2.3	2.1
100+	556.58	603.28	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Papua New Guinea by year

Mortality in Papua New Guinea, 1956

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