Life expectancy at birth in Papua New Guinea was 60.4 years in 1998: 62.5 for women and 58.7 for men, a gap of 3.8 years. 42,863 people died; 21.6% of them were 65 or older and 31.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1998

Life expectancy at birth

60.4

Women

62.5

Men

58.7

Life expectancy at 65

11.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

57.9

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

77.8

Deaths

42,863

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.3

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

313

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

243

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1998's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1998

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	56.02	64.93	62.5	58.7
1-4	5.39	5.28	65.1	61.6
5-9	2.15	2.20	62.4	58.9
10-14	1.59	1.61	58.1	54.5
15-19	2.30	2.80	53.5	49.9
20-24	2.74	3.88	49.1	45.6
25-29	3.12	3.88	44.8	41.4
30-34	3.74	4.32	40.4	37.2
35-39	4.67	5.41	36.1	33.0
40-44	5.92	7.26	31.9	28.8
45-49	7.73	10.29	27.8	24.8
50-54	10.59	15.01	23.8	20.9
55-59	14.86	22.05	20.0	17.4
60-64	22.53	33.51	16.3	14.1
65-69	35.26	50.33	12.9	11.2
70-74	58.36	76.65	9.9	8.7
75-79	93.77	115.33	7.5	6.6
80-84	146.85	171.50	5.5	4.9
85-89	221.47	250.44	4.1	3.7
90-94	311.06	344.74	3.0	2.8
95-99	426.60	461.79	2.3	2.1
100+	556.64	587.92	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Papua New Guinea by year

Mortality in Papua New Guinea, 1998

Year

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