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Papua New Guinea — GDP per capita
GDP per Capita (Nominal) for Papua New Guinea, 1960–2025.
Latest value · 2025
3,020
GDP per Capita (Nominal) · current US$ · +2513.6% since 1960
GDP per capita for Papua New Guinea was 3,020 in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 66 years, from 1960 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 3,102 in 2022. The lowest was 116 in 1960 (about 26.1× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 5.15% per year.
Papua New Guinea ranks 164 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 77%. The median for East Asia & Pacific is 8,489, so Papua New Guinea sits below it. It peaked in 2022 and has fallen 3% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 22%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
3,020
First (1960)
116
Change
+2513.6%
Highest
3,102
in 2022
Lowest
116
in 1960
Average
1,138
Annual growth (CAGR)
5.15%
Years of data
66
Recent years
| Year | current US$ |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,019.53 |
| 2024 | 2,912.49 |
| 2023 | 2,966.06 |
| 2022 | 3,102.29 |
| 2021 | 2,607.98 |
| 2020 | 2,429.61 |
| 2019 | 2,575.77 |
| 2018 | 2,566.37 |
| 2017 | 2,477.77 |
| 2016 | 2,316.39 |
| 2015 | 2,484.6 |
| 2014 | 2,723.18 |
Reading this correctly. Nominal GDP divided by midyear population. A rough proxy for average income; it does not account for income distribution. Figures are in current US$. 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.CD — GDP per Capita (Nominal). 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.