Papua New Guinea Mortality 2008: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Papua New Guinea

2008

Life expectancy: 62.5

Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Papua New Guinea was 62.5 years in 2008: 64.7 for women and 60.8 for men, a gap of 4.0 years. 53,796 people died; 26.4% of them were 65 or older and 25.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2008

Life expectancy at birth

62.5

Women

64.7

Men

60.8

Life expectancy at 65

12.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

47.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

61.2

Deaths

53,796

Deaths per 1,000 people

7.5

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

297

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

227

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2008's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2008

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	45.56	53.58	64.7	60.8
1-4	3.50	3.59	66.7	63.0
5-9	1.47	1.49	63.6	59.9
10-14	1.17	1.15	59.1	55.4
15-19	1.97	2.37	54.4	50.7
20-24	2.44	3.41	49.9	46.2
25-29	2.79	3.44	45.5	42.0
30-34	3.34	3.86	41.1	37.7
35-39	4.21	4.94	36.7	33.4
40-44	5.40	6.76	32.5	29.1
45-49	7.19	9.77	28.3	25.0
50-54	9.95	14.44	24.2	21.2
55-59	14.16	21.45	20.3	17.6
60-64	21.43	32.75	16.6	14.3
65-69	33.67	49.30	13.2	11.3
70-74	55.68	74.82	10.2	8.8
75-79	90.46	112.90	7.7	6.7
80-84	141.65	167.31	5.7	5.0
85-89	213.22	244.28	4.2	3.7
90-94	303.52	337.81	3.1	2.8
95-99	418.50	453.78	2.3	2.2
100+	549.57	579.58	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Papua New Guinea by year

Mortality in Papua New Guinea, 2008

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