Djibouti vs Papua New Guinea: Life expectancy

Djibouti
65.99 years
in 2023
Papua New Guinea
66.13 years
in 2023
Djibouti rank
204th
Papua New Guinea rank
202nd

Life expectancy over time

  • Djibouti
  • Papua New Guinea
0204060194619842023

How they compare

Papua New Guinea currently reports 66.13 years against 65.99 years in Djibouti, a difference of 0.1475 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Djibouti ahead.

Globally, Djibouti ranks 204th and Papua New Guinea ranks 202nd of 236 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Life expectancy
Unit
years
Source
Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
236 places, 19,452 data points, 1543–2023
Last refreshed

Period life expectancy is the number of years the average person born in a certain year would live if they experienced the same chances of dying at each age as people did that year.