Papua New Guinea
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Economy
- GDP per person $3,020 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $5,215 (2025)
- Economic growth +5.6% (2025)
- Unemployment 2.6% (2025)
- Inflation +0.6% (2024)
- Exports 72.2% (2004)
- Income per person $3,972 (2023)
- Household wealth 28.2 (2019)
- Poorer households 87.0% (2019)
- Wealth inequality 0.39 (2019)
- Women in paid work 31.0% (2019)
People
- Population 10.4 million (2023)
- Population growth +1.75% (2025)
- Births per woman 3.07 (2024)
- Typical age 22.3 (2023)
- Living in cities 15.8% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.576 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.926 (2023)
- People per household 6.5 (2019)
- People over 65 2.9% (2019)
- Children under 15 41.4% (2019)
- Women’s age at first marriage 19.7 (2019)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 20.8 (2019)
Health
- Life expectancy 66.1 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 39.4 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 189 (2023)
- Health spending per person $85 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 44% (2024)
- Overweight adults 51.4% (2022)
- Stunted children 43.5% (2019)
- Overweight children 12.0% (2019)
- Homes with piped water 10.7% (2019)
- Homes with a flush toilet 8.9% (2019)
Education
- Years of schooling 5.0 (2023)
- Expected years in school 11.5 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 52.1% (2023)
- Education spending 0.6% (2022)
- Teens in school 75.4% (2019)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 0.789 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 8.35 million (2024)
- Forest cover 79.0% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 11.0 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 54.5% (2021)
- Average temperature 23.0 (2022)
Energy
- Access to electricity 43.3% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 23.7% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 91.7% (2019)
Technology
- Internet users 18.8% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 49.2 (2022)
- Home broadband 0.2 (2022)
- Homes with a mobile phone 56.4% (2019)
Food and farming
- Hunger 28.7% (2023)
- Cereal yield 4,787 (2023)
- Farmland 3.1% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 36.9% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.47 (2025)
- Human rights 0.81 (2025)
- Control of corruption −0.78 (2025)
- Women in parliament 2.7% (2025)
- Military spending 0.3% (2024)
- Clean government 42.4 (2022)