Life expectancy at birth in Papua New Guinea was 60.9 years in 1995: 63.4 for women and 59.0 for men, a gap of 4.4 years. 37,081 people died; 21.0% of them were 65 or older and 33.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1995

Life expectancy at birth

60.9

Women

63.4

Men

59.0

Life expectancy at 65

12.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

59.2

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

77.7

Deaths

37,081

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.0

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

310

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

228

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1995's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1995

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	57.24	66.54	63.4	59.0
1-4	4.96	4.97	66.1	61.9
5-9	1.70	1.87	63.3	59.1
10-14	1.26	1.38	58.9	54.7
15-19	1.97	2.66	54.2	50.0
20-24	2.44	3.81	49.7	45.7
25-29	2.82	3.82	45.3	41.5
30-34	3.38	4.24	40.9	37.3
35-39	4.26	5.35	36.6	33.0
40-44	5.45	7.22	32.3	28.8
45-49	7.18	10.24	28.1	24.8
50-54	9.96	14.94	24.1	21.0
55-59	14.16	21.94	20.1	17.4
60-64	21.82	33.40	16.4	14.1
65-69	34.50	50.19	13.0	11.2
70-74	57.57	76.52	10.0	8.7
75-79	93.49	115.61	7.5	6.6
80-84	145.58	171.61	5.6	4.9
85-89	218.29	250.12	4.1	3.7
90-94	307.71	344.38	3.1	2.8
95-99	423.38	461.83	2.3	2.1
100+	552.91	588.17	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Papua New Guinea by year

Mortality in Papua New Guinea, 1995

Year

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