Life expectancy at birth in Papua New Guinea was 61.1 years in 1996: 63.5 for women and 59.1 for men, a gap of 4.4 years. 38,243 people died; 21.5% of them were 65 or older and 32.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1996

Life expectancy at birth

61.1

Women

63.5

Men

59.1

Life expectancy at 65

12.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

58.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

76.5

Deaths

38,243

Deaths per 1,000 people

7.9

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

309

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

227

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1996's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1996

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	56.37	65.57	63.5	59.1
1-4	4.85	4.87	66.1	62.0
5-9	1.69	1.84	63.4	59.2
10-14	1.25	1.36	58.9	54.8
15-19	1.97	2.65	54.2	50.1
20-24	2.44	3.80	49.8	45.7
25-29	2.80	3.80	45.3	41.6
30-34	3.37	4.22	40.9	37.3
35-39	4.24	5.31	36.6	33.1
40-44	5.44	7.15	32.3	28.9
45-49	7.17	10.15	28.1	24.8
50-54	9.95	14.82	24.1	21.0
55-59	14.13	21.80	20.2	17.4
60-64	21.77	33.21	16.5	14.1
65-69	34.42	49.96	13.0	11.2
70-74	57.42	76.19	10.0	8.7
75-79	93.25	115.19	7.5	6.6
80-84	145.33	171.10	5.6	5.0
85-89	218.07	249.62	4.1	3.7
90-94	307.49	343.88	3.1	2.8
95-99	423.13	461.21	2.3	2.1
100+	552.79	587.51	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Papua New Guinea by year

Mortality in Papua New Guinea, 1996

Year

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