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Papua New Guinea, in context.

Annual data for Papua New Guinea. These observations describe the source's reporting country or area; they do not represent individual local regions or cities.

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PG Papua New Guinea2025

Total GDP

$28.7Bconstant 2015 US$
+5.6% year over year
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PG Papua New Guinea2024

Life expectancy

66.3years at birth
+0.2% year over year
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GDP per capita

$2.7Kconstant 2015 US$ per person
+3.8% year over year
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Electricity consumption

Not availablekilowatt-hours per person
No comparable prior period
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Employment ratio

50.7%% of population aged 15+ (modeled ILO estimate)
+0.1 pp year over year
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PG Papua New Guinea2025

Unemployment

2.6%% of the labor force (modeled ILO estimate)
-0.1 pp year over year
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Inflation

4.4%annual change in consumer prices (%)
+3.8 pp year over year
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Population

10.8Mpeople
+1.8% year over year
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The reporting boundary matters.

These annual series use the publisher's country or economy boundaries. A reporting-area average cannot tell you what a specific city, neighborhood, or household experiences.

Geography definition

Canonical geography identifier
entity.geo.papua-new-guinea
World Bank reporting code
PNG
Geographic region
Oceania · Melanesia
Classification
UN M49 geographic classification · M49 598
Reporting scope
World Bank reporting country or area, classified in Melanesia by UN M49. Statistical grouping does not assert sovereignty.

Geographic grouping supports browsing and does not assert political membership or sovereign status. Read the complete classification and coverage notes.