Papua New Guinea Mortality 2015: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Papua New Guinea

2015

Life expectancy: 64.5

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Papua New Guinea was 64.5 years in 2015: 67.5 for women and 62.1 for men, a gap of 5.4 years. 59,487 people died; 29.7% of them were 65 or older and 21.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2015

Life expectancy at birth

64.5

Women

67.5

Men

62.1

Life expectancy at 65

12.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

40.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

51.5

Deaths

59,487

Deaths per 1,000 people

6.8

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

282

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

187

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2015's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2015

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	38.44	45.73	67.5	62.1
1-4	2.72	2.88	69.1	64.0
5-9	1.05	1.25	65.9	60.7
10-14	0.83	1.00	61.2	56.1
15-19	1.38	2.15	56.4	51.3
20-24	1.70	3.08	51.8	46.9
25-29	1.97	3.11	47.2	42.5
30-34	2.43	3.51	42.7	38.2
35-39	3.18	4.52	38.2	33.8
40-44	4.25	6.26	33.7	29.5
45-49	5.91	9.19	29.4	25.4
50-54	8.39	13.76	25.2	21.4
55-59	12.16	20.68	21.2	17.8
60-64	18.78	31.77	17.3	14.4
65-69	30.11	48.05	13.8	11.5
70-74	50.77	73.01	10.6	8.9
75-79	84.25	110.50	8.0	6.8
80-84	134.20	164.20	5.9	5.1
85-89	205.64	240.92	4.3	3.8
90-94	296.69	335.05	3.2	2.9
95-99	413.56	451.00	2.4	2.2
100+	546.21	577.90	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Papua New Guinea by year

Mortality in Papua New Guinea, 2015

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