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Gambia vs Papua New Guinea: Life expectancy

Gambia
65.86 years
in 2023
Papua New Guinea
66.13 years
in 2023
Gambia rank
205th
Papua New Guinea rank
202nd

Life expectancy over time

  • Gambia
  • Papua New Guinea
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How they compare

Papua New Guinea currently reports 66.13 years against 65.86 years in Gambia, a difference of 0.2737 years.

Across all 74 years both countries report, Papua New Guinea has been ahead every year.

Globally, Gambia ranks 205th 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
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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.