Life expectancy at birth in Papua New Guinea was 59.9 years in 1991: 62.5 for women and 57.9 for men, a gap of 4.6 years. 33,663 people died; 18.3% of them were 65 or older and 35.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1991

Life expectancy at birth

59.9

Women

62.5

Men

57.9

Life expectancy at 65

11.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

63.2

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

83.8

Deaths

33,663

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.4

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

325

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

235

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1991's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1991

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	61.34	71.16	62.5	57.9
1-4	5.57	5.55	65.4	61.1
5-9	1.89	2.09	62.8	58.4
10-14	1.38	1.53	58.4	54.0
15-19	2.12	2.87	53.8	49.4
20-24	2.61	4.12	49.4	45.1
25-29	3.00	4.14	45.0	41.0
30-34	3.58	4.61	40.6	36.8
35-39	4.47	5.80	36.3	32.6
40-44	5.68	7.75	32.1	28.4
45-49	7.42	10.86	27.9	24.5
50-54	10.25	15.67	23.9	20.7
55-59	14.50	22.77	20.0	17.2
60-64	22.35	34.43	16.3	13.9
65-69	35.25	51.42	12.9	11.1
70-74	58.72	78.08	9.9	8.6
75-79	94.91	117.45	7.4	6.5
80-84	147.58	173.87	5.5	4.9
85-89	220.28	252.19	4.1	3.6
90-94	309.34	345.93	3.1	2.8
95-99	424.81	463.29	2.3	2.1
100+	553.62	589.35	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Papua New Guinea by year

Mortality in Papua New Guinea, 1991

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