Papua New Guinea's antiretroviral therapy coverage for PMTCT (% of pregnant women living with HIV) was 28% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 16 percentage points from 12% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 28% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 22% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 12% | 2014 |
| Highest | 28% | 2024 |
| Lowest | 0% | 2000 |
| Average since 2015 | 17.7% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 0% | 2000 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Papua New Guinea's antiretroviral therapy coverage for PMTCT (% of pregnant women living with HIV) rose 6 percentage points on 2023 (from 22% to 28%).
Across the 23 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2023), the average change was +0.96 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.5 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 2.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 6 percentage points in 2024 and the biggest yearly fall was 5 percentage points in 2020. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is upward, about 1.56 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 76% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 28.51% for 2027. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2022 to 2024 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 2.7%, against 4.67% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2024, Papua New Guinea had the 70th highest value of the 76 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 28% | 2024 |
| World | 84% | 2024 |
Closest to Papua New Guinea in the 2024 ranking
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 67th of 76: 32%
- Tunisia — 68th of 76: 32%
- Madagascar — 69th of 76: 30%
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 71st of 76: 27%
- Philippines — 72nd of 76: 16%
- Afghanistan — 73rd of 76: 14%
What this measures
Percentage of pregnant women with HIV who receive antiretroviral medicine for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT).
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 25 values
| Year | Antiretroviral therapy coverage for PMTCT (% of pregnant women living with HIV) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 28 |
| 2023 | 22 |
| 2022 | 18 |
| 2021 | 18 |
| 2020 | 17 |
| 2019 | 22 |
| 2018 | 17 |
| 2017 | 14 |
| 2016 | 11 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2014 |
Antiretroviral therapy coverage for PMTCT (% of pregnant women living with HIV) in nearby economies
More health data for Papua New Guinea
- Population ages 00-04, female (% of female population) — 11.41% (2025)
- Population ages 00-04, male (% of male population) — 11.56% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female — 1.72 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female (% of female population) — 32.84% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male — 1.85 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) — 33.44% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, total — 3.57 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) — 33.15% (2025)
- Population ages 05-09, female (% of female population)
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Questions people ask
- What is Papua New Guinea's antiretroviral therapy coverage for PMTCT (% of pregnant women living with HIV)?
- 28% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2000?
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SH.HIV.PMTC.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: UNAIDS estimates, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), uri: https://aidsinfo.unaids.org/, publisher: UNAIDS, date accessed: 2025-08-27, date published: 2025-07 Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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