Share of deaths from noncommunicable diseases — all countries

Share of deaths from noncommunicable diseases — Papua New Guinea

Share of deaths from noncommunicable diseases in Papua New Guinea in 2021 — 47.6%. Ranked 138 in the world out of 185. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 7.6 pp.

2021 47.6% −4.6 pp vs 2020
World rank 138of 185
Period maximum 56.4%2019
Period minimum 40%2000

Trend over time

2000–2021 · % of total deaths

Share of deaths from noncommunicable diseases — Papua New Guinea, 2000–2021354045505560200020032006200920122015201820212000: 40%2010: 45.4%2015: 52.7%2019: 56.4%2020: 52.2%2021: 47.6%
Change over the period: +7.6 pp Annual average: 0.36 pp

Comparison, 2021

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea 47.6%
World 63.4%
Share of deaths from noncommunicable diseases — Papua New Guinea, by year Papua New Guinea All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2021 47.6 −4.6 pp
2020 52.2 −4.2 pp
2019 56.4
2015 52.7
2010 45.4
2000 40

Melanesia, 2021

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

About the indicator

The share of deaths from noncommunicable diseases in the total number of deaths during a year. This group takes in cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease and the remaining conditions that do not pass from person to person. The three shares — noncommunicable diseases, infections and injuries — together make up a hundred percent, so they have to be read only together: a rise in one share means a fall in the other two and does not by itself say that people started dying of that cause more often.

Important: There are no aggregates by country group: the correct weight is the total number of deaths, and all we have is the death rate, not the absolute number. A share, not a level: in countries with high life expectancy it is close to 90% because infections have been beaten.

Source: Global Health Observatory (WHO), license CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.