Poverty Headcount / Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea Poverty Headcount
Papua New Guinea poverty headcount data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 39.90%.
COUNTRY: Papua New Guinea
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-07-06 05:11:11
GM ECONOMY RATING
Papua New Guinea · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
54 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
3.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
18.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
10.0 / 15
Future capacity
9.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
1.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 86% of weighted inputs available.
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Papua New Guinea · poverty headcount data as percent of GDP.
Latest
39.90%
Previous
37.50%
Range avg.
38.70%
Rank
6
Countries by poverty headcount
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CountryPapua New Guinea
IndicatorPoverty Headcount
39.90%2009 · Rank 6
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Papua New Guinea recorded 39.90% for Poverty Headcount in 2009, the latest available observation in this dataset.
The value increased from 37.50% in 1996; the absolute change was 2.40 percentage points.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 2 available observations (38.70%).
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