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Papua New Guinea

10,762,817

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+186.32K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+94.4%from 5.54M
Life expectancy66.3 years2024
Fertility rate3.07births per woman · 2024
Urban population15.8%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificLower middle income

A country at every age

How Papua New Guinea is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1433.1%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6463.3%Working-age population
Ages 65+3.6%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate24.3births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.6deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+17.7births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-284net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Papua New Guinea look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 14.91M in 2050—40.9% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202410.58M
  2. 205014.91M
  3. 210018.64M
Median age in 205028.5years
Births in 2050269.08Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050126.69Kduring the year
Life expectancy69.2years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19602M
  2. 19702.51M
  3. 19803.13M
  4. 19903.9M
  5. 20005.54M
  6. 20107.63M
  7. 20209.82M
  8. 202510.76M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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