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Papua New Guinea - Life Expectancy 2025

Name: Papua New Guinea Life Expectancy 2025
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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

66.0 −0.2 from 2024 Global rank: 186th

Papua New Guinea's life expectancy was 66.0 in 2025. This was the 186th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2025▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 2025
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	San Marino	86.2	0.5%
2nd	Monaco	85.9	-0.5%
3rd	Liechtenstein	85.4	0.6%
4th	Andorra	84.6	0.6%
5th	Hong Kong SAR, China	84.4	-1.0%
6th	Switzerland	84.0	0.0%
7th	French Polynesia	83.9	-0.2%
8th	Japan	83.8	-0.3%
9th	Spain	83.7	-0.3%
10th	Luxembourg	83.6	0.3%
11th	Faroe Islands	83.5	0.4%
12th	Sweden	83.4	0.1%
13th	Malta	83.4	-0.1%
14th	Italy	83.3	-0.5%
15th	Australia	83.3	0.2%
16th	Gibraltar	83.2	-0.4%
17th	Korea	83.1	-0.4%
18th	Israel	83.1	-0.1%
19th	New Zealand	82.9	-0.1%
20th	Bermuda	82.9	0.7%
21st	Norway	82.8	-0.3%
22nd	Ireland	82.7	-0.2%
23rd	Macao SAR, China	82.6	-0.7%
24th	France	82.5	-0.5%
25th	Belgium	82.5	0.1%
26th	Singapore	82.4	-0.6%
27th	Kuwait	82.4	-1.0%
28th	Portugal	82.3	0.0%
29th	Iceland	82.0	-0.7%
30th	Slovenia	81.9	-0.1%
31st	Qatar	81.9	-0.6%
32nd	Denmark	81.7	-0.2%
33rd	Netherlands	81.6	-0.4%
34th	Maldives	81.5	0.6%
35th	Bahrain	81.5	0.2%
36th	Finland	81.2	-0.6%
37th	Austria	81.2	-0.4%
38th	Isle of Man	81.1	0.1%
39th	Canada	81.1	-0.7%
40th	United Kingdom	81.1	-0.2%
41st	United Arab Emirates	81.1	-2.2%
42nd	European Union	81.0	-0.5%
43rd	Virgin Islands (US)	81.0	0.5%
44th	Cayman Islands	80.9	0.7%
45th	Cyprus	80.9	-0.9%
46th	Channel Islands	80.9	-0.3%
47th	Greece	80.8	-0.9%
48th	Puerto Rico (US)	80.4	-1.5%
49th	Chile	80.4	-1.0%
50th	St. Martin (French part)	80.3	0.1%
51st	Panama	80.2	0.8%
52nd	Germany	80.1	-0.6%
53rd	Costa Rica	79.9	-1.1%
54th	Czechia	79.5	-0.5%
55th	Northern Mariana Islands	79.2	0.6%
56th	New Caledonia	79.0	0.3%
57th	Albania	79.0	-0.8%
58th	Oman	78.5	-2.0%
59th	Kosovo	78.4	0.5%
60th	China	78.1	0.2%
61st	Turks and Caicos Islands	78.1	0.1%
62nd	Saudi Arabia	78.0	-0.9%
63rd	Croatia	77.9	-0.8%
64th	Poland	77.8	-0.8%
65th	Antigua and Barbuda	77.8	0.3%
66th	Sri Lanka	77.7	0.3%
67th	Estonia	77.7	-1.0%
68th	Jordan	77.7	-0.2%
69th	Peru	77.6	-0.1%
70th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	77.5	-0.1%
71st	Guam	77.5	0.3%
72nd	United States	77.4	-1.2%
73rd	Cuba	77.4	-0.9%
74th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.2	-0.9%
75th	Lebanon	77.2	-0.8%
76th	British Virgin Islands	77.2	-0.2%
77th	Slovak Republic	77.1	-1.1%
78th	Colombia	77.1	-0.7%
79th	Ecuador	77.1	-0.4%
80th	Uruguay	76.9	-1.5%
81st	Algeria	76.9	0.9%
82nd	Türkiye	76.9	-0.3%
83rd	Montenegro	76.9	-0.9%
84th	Curaçao	76.8	0.0%
85th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	76.6	0.3%
86th	Cabo Verde	76.5	0.5%
87th	Lithuania	76.4	-0.8%
88th	Argentina	76.4	-1.3%
89th	Armenia	76.4	-1.4%
90th	Tunisia	76.4	-0.2%
91st	Hungary	76.2	-0.7%
92nd	Aruba	76.1	-0.3%
93rd	Romania	76.0	-0.7%
94th	Malaysia	76.0	-0.9%
95th	Bahamas, The	76.0	1.9%
96th	Morocco	75.9	0.8%
97th	Barbados	75.7	-0.7%
98th	Bangladesh	75.6	1.2%
99th	Serbia	75.5	-1.0%
100th	Thailand	75.3	-1.4%
101st	Nicaragua	75.3	0.5%
102nd	Grenada	75.2	0.0%
103rd	Azerbaijan	75.1	0.9%
104th	Brazil	75.0	-1.1%
105th	Bulgaria	74.7	-1.3%
106th	Mexico	74.6	-0.6%
107th	Latvia	74.6	-1.5%
108th	Viet Nam	74.5	-0.1%
109th	Dominican Republic	74.2	0.7%
110th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	74.2	0.8%
111th	Georgia	74.1	-0.5%
112th	Belarus	74.1	-0.1%
113th	Kazakhstan	74.1	-0.4%
114th	Brunei Darussalam	74.0	-1.8%
115th	Seychelles	74.0	-1.3%
116th	Suriname	73.8	0.3%
117th	North Macedonia	73.8	-2.0%
118th	Trinidad and Tobago	73.5	0.0%
119th	Bhutan	73.5	0.7%
120th	Syrian Arab Republic	73.3	1.6%
121st	Belize	73.2	-0.5%
122nd	Tonga	73.1	0.2%
123rd	Iraq	73.0	0.9%
124th	Honduras	73.0	0.1%
125th	Mauritius	72.9	-0.7%
126th	American Samoa	72.9	0.0%
127th	Mongolia	72.7	0.8%
128th	Russian Federation	72.6	-0.8%
129th	Samoa	72.5	1.2%
130th	Kyrgyz Republic	72.5	0.4%
131st	Uzbekistan	72.5	0.1%
132nd	Tajikistan	72.3	0.8%
133rd	Ukraine	72.3	-1.5%
134th	St. Lucia	72.3	-0.5%
135th	El Salvador	72.2	0.1%
136th	Paraguay	72.1	-2.3%
137th	India	72.0	0.0%
138th	Guatemala	71.9	-0.9%
139th	Moldova	71.8	0.9%
140th	Vanuatu	71.7	0.3%
141st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	71.3	-0.4%
142nd	Greenland	71.3	-0.3%
143rd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	71.3	0.0%
144th	Indonesia	71.2	0.1%
145th	St. Kitts and Nevis	71.0	-1.5%
146th	Jamaica	71.0	-0.7%
147th	Cambodia	70.8	0.1%
148th	Solomon Islands	70.7	0.3%
149th	Dominica	70.7	-0.6%
150th	Nepal	70.7	0.5%
151st	Turkmenistan	70.5	0.6%
152nd	São Tomé and Principe	70.4	1.0%
153rd	Libya	70.2	1.2%
154th	Yemen, Republic of	70.0	1.1%
155th	Guyana	70.0	-0.3%
156th	Lao PDR	69.3	0.5%
157th	Botswana	69.2	0.1%
158th	Palau	69.2	-0.1%
159th	Uganda	69.1	1.2%
160th	Philippines	69.0	-1.2%
161st	Eritrea	68.9	0.4%
162nd	Mauritania	68.9	0.6%
163rd	Senegal	68.6	-0.1%
164th	Gabon	68.6	0.3%
165th	Rwanda	68.3	0.7%
166th	Pakistan	68.1	0.6%
167th	Timor-Leste	68.1	0.6%
168th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	68.1	-0.8%
169th	Malawi	67.9	0.8%
170th	Micronesia, Federated States of	67.7	0.8%
171st	Zambia	67.6	1.8%
172nd	Tuvalu	67.4	0.5%
173rd	Afghanistan	67.4	2.1%
174th	Tanzania	67.4	0.6%
175th	Marshall Islands	67.4	0.6%
176th	Comoros	67.2	0.6%
177th	Namibia	67.1	-0.4%
178th	Fiji	67.0	-0.5%
179th	Congo, Republic of	66.8	1.6%
180th	Myanmar	66.7	-0.3%
181st	Djibouti	66.6	0.9%
182nd	Kiribati	66.5	0.0%
183rd	Sudan	66.1	-0.3%
184th	Gambia, The	66.0	0.2%
185th	Ghana	66.0	0.7%
186th	Papua New Guinea	66.0	-0.3%
187th	Eswatini	65.7	2.5%
188th	West Bank and Gaza	65.5	0.4%
189th	Angola	65.3	1.1%
190th	South Africa	65.1	-1.5%
191st	Guinea-Bissau	65.0	1.4%
192nd	Haiti	64.5	-0.7%
193rd	Mozambique	64.4	1.3%
194th	Equatorial Guinea	64.4	1.1%
195th	Cameroon	64.0	0.5%
196th	Burundi	64.0	0.5%
197th	Kenya	63.9	0.5%
198th	Togo	63.5	1.2%
199th	Madagascar	63.3	-0.5%
200th	Zimbabwe	63.3	0.8%
201st	Sierra Leone	62.9	1.8%
202nd	Côte d'Ivoire	62.7	1.3%
203rd	Liberia	62.6	0.6%
204th	Nauru	62.4	0.5%
205th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	62.3	0.6%
206th	Guinea	61.4	1.0%
207th	Niger	61.3	0.2%
208th	Burkina Faso	61.3	0.4%
209th	Benin	61.0	0.4%
210th	Mali	61.0	0.9%
211th	Lesotho	58.1	1.3%
212th	South Sudan	56.9	-1.2%
213th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	56.5	-3.9%
214th	Chad	56.0	1.7%
215th	Nigeria	55.2	1.3%
216th	Central African Republic	47.7	-16.9%

FAQ

What was Papua New Guinea's life expectancy in 2025?▾

Papua New Guinea's life expectancy in 2025 was 66.0. This ranked 186th globally.

How did Papua New Guinea's life expectancy change in 2025?▾

Papua New Guinea's life expectancy decreased by 0.3% in 2025 compared to 2024.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 2025?▾

San Marino had the highest life expectancy in 2025 at 86.2.

What is the life expectancy of Papua New Guinea in 2025?▾

The life expectancy of Papua New Guinea in 2025 was 66.0. This ranked 186th globally.

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