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Papua New Guinea — GDP per capita (PPP)
GDP per Capita (PPP) for Papua New Guinea, 1990–2025.
Latest value · 2025
5,215
GDP per Capita (PPP) · current international $ · +206.2% since 1990
GDP per capita (PPP) for Papua New Guinea was 5,215 in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 36 years, from 1990 to 2025. The latest year is also the highest value on record for this series. The lowest was 1,703 in 1990 (about 3.1× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 3.25% per year.
Papua New Guinea ranks 165 of 201 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 82%. The median for East Asia & Pacific is 16,338, so Papua New Guinea sits below it. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 42%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
5,215
First (1990)
1,703
Change
+206.2%
Highest
5,215
in 2025
Lowest
1,703
in 1990
Average
3,002
Annual growth (CAGR)
3.25%
Years of data
36
Recent years
| Year | current international $ |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,214.77 |
| 2024 | 4,886.53 |
| 2023 | 4,672.27 |
| 2022 | 4,419.49 |
| 2021 | 3,977.44 |
| 2020 | 3,900.19 |
| 2019 | 4,059.83 |
| 2018 | 3,909.92 |
| 2017 | 3,923.17 |
| 2016 | 3,812.71 |
| 2015 | 3,669.74 |
| 2014 | 3,499.55 |
Reading this correctly. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power parity. More meaningful than the nominal figure when comparing actual living standards across countries with very different price levels. Figures are in current international $. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD — GDP per Capita (PPP). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.