Papua New Guinea's life expectancy rose from 60.9 yrs in 1995 to 66.3 yrs in 2024.
Papua New Guinea · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
23 indicators · 22 with data
Papua New Guinea's healthy life expectancy at birth rose from 55.6 yrs in 2000 to 57.5 yrs in 2021.
Papua New Guinea's infant mortality fell from 60.4 ‰ in 1995 to 31.3 ‰ in 2024.
Papua New Guinea's under-5 mortality rate fell from 77.7 ‰ in 1995 to 39.4 ‰ in 2024.
Papua New Guinea's maternal mortality ratio fell from 324.0 /100k in 1994 to 189.0 /100k in 2023.
Papua New Guinea's ncd mortality fell from 30.4 % in 2000 to 28.5 % in 2021.
Papua New Guinea's suicide mortality rate rose from 1.7 /100k in 2000 to 1.8 /100k in 2021.
Papua New Guinea's mortality caused by road traffic injury fell from 17.4 /100k in 2000 to 12.6 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingup +0.3 pts180th of 192
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)up +5.0 %146th of 191
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)down −0.7 pts19th of 192
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- Physiciansdown −3.2 %62nd of 63
- Nurses and midwivesup +22.7 %114th of 120*
- Hospital bedsup +264.7 %69th of 75
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)down −8.0 pts188th of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)up +7.0 pts189th of 192
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- Prevalence of HIV (ages 15–49)up +0.1 pts122nd of 148
- Incidence of tuberculosisup +2.6 %207th of 208
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- Safe sanitationup +0.3 pts129th of 141
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These indicators exist in the registry but no source reports a value for Papua New Guinea.
- Safe drinking waterNo data