Life expectancy at birth in Papua New Guinea was 58.1 years in 1982: 60.7 for women and 56.0 for men, a gap of 4.7 years. 29,543 people died; 11.5% of them were 65 or older and 41.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1982

Life expectancy at birth

58.1

Women

60.7

Men

56.0

Life expectancy at 65

11.6

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

74.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

100.3

Deaths

29,543

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.1

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

342

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

248

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1982's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1982

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.

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Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	72.63	83.99	60.7	56.1
1-4	7.22	7.07	64.2	59.9
5-9	2.21	2.50	62.0	57.5
10-14	1.55	1.76	57.7	53.2
15-19	2.32	3.17	53.1	48.7
20-24	2.88	4.58	48.7	44.4
25-29	3.30	4.62	44.4	40.4
30-34	3.93	5.12	40.1	36.3
35-39	4.85	6.37	35.8	32.1
40-44	6.08	8.40	31.7	28.1
45-49	7.79	11.55	27.6	24.2
50-54	10.69	16.40	23.5	20.5
55-59	15.04	23.45	19.7	17.0
60-64	23.29	35.23	16.0	13.8
65-69	36.60	52.31	12.7	11.0
70-74	60.88	79.48	9.7	8.5
75-79	97.77	119.35	7.3	6.5
80-84	150.79	176.57	5.4	4.8
85-89	223.69	255.10	4.0	3.6
90-94	312.46	348.53	3.0	2.8
95-99	427.77	466.74	2.3	2.1
100+	555.25	592.52	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Papua New Guinea by year

Mortality in Papua New Guinea, 1982

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