LifePath

Life in New Caledonia

East Asia & Pacific · high-income · capital Noum'ea

World Bank country code NCL · ISO NC · Data sources

Live a life in New Caledonia

Start from this country's own statistics — its mortality curve, its income level, its school system — and play the years out: what happens if you leave school at fifteen, or take the job that is offered, or move to the capital.

Start a life in New Caledonia

The statistics behind the simulation

Each figure shows the year it was observed. A missing row means the World Bank does not report that indicator for New Caledonia — not that the value is zero.

IndicatorValueYear
Life expectancy at birth
The average number of years a newborn would live if the year's mortality rates held for their whole life.
78.9 years2024
Fertility rate
The average number of children a woman is expected to have over her lifetime.
1.962024
Urban population
The share of people living in urban areas.
68.0%2024
Youth unemployment
The share of the labour force aged 15–24 that is without work and looking for it.
11.0%2024
Population
Total population.
292,6392024
Birth rate
Crude birth rate: births per 1,000 population per year.
14.02024
Female labour force participation
The share of women aged 15 and over in work or actively looking for work.
51.6%2024

What these numbers mean

A newborn in New Caledonia can expect to live 78.9 years, above the dataset median of 74.7 years. The fertility rate is 1.96 births per woman (2024) — below replacement level, so the simulation's households tend to be small. 68.0% of people live in urban areas (2024), so where you start — village, town, city or capital — is a real difference in what the same life can offer.

Other countries in East Asia & Pacific

Where New Caledonia sits within East Asia & Pacific

Of the 37 countries in East Asia & Pacific that report life expectancy, New Caledonia sits above the regional median, at 78.9 years against a regional median of 73.0. 9 countries report a higher figure and 27 report a lower one.

IndicatorNew CaledoniaEast Asia & Pacific medianEast Asia & Pacific range
Life expectancy78.973.062.3 – 85.4
Fertility rate2.02.10.6 – 3.8
Urban population68.0%64.7%15.4% – 100.0%

Ranges cover every country in the region that reports the indicator, in the year each country last reported it. Medians are unweighted, so a large country and a small one count the same.

Where New Caledonia shows up in the topics

These pages put New Caledonia's figures next to the other 216 countries, for the indicators that shape the decisions in the simulation.

About these figures

The statistics above are national averages from the World Bank Open Data, retrieved 2026-11-01 and released under World Bank data is released under CC BY 4.0. National averages do not describe any individual life, and this page does not rank New Caledonia against other countries. Life expectancy reflects a country's mortality conditions as a whole, which include healthcare access, income distribution, nutrition, sanitation and public safety — the simulation uses it as a risk curve, not as a measure of the people who live there.

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