Nationality:
noun: Papua New Guinean(s)
adjective:
Papua New Guinean
Ethnic groups:
Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian
Languages:
Tok Pisin (official), English (official), Hiri Motu (official), some 836 indigenous languages spoken (about 12% of the world's total); most languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers
note:
Tok Pisin, a creole language, is widely used and understood; English is spoken by 1%-2%; Hiri Motu is spoken by less than 2%
Religions:
Roman Catholic 27%, Protestant 69.4% (Evangelical Lutheran 19.5%, United Church 11.5%, Seventh-Day Adventist 10%, Pentecostal 8.6%, Evangelical Alliance 5.2%, Anglican 3.2%, Baptist 2.5%, other Protestant 8.9%), Baha'i 0.3%, indigenous beliefs and other 3.3% (2000 census)
Population: Age structure: Dependency ratios: Median age: Population growth rate: Birth rate: Death rate: Net migration rate: Urbanization: Major urban areas - population: Sex ratio: Maternal mortality rate: Infant mortality rate: Life expectancy at birth: Total fertility rate: Contraceptive prevalence rate: Health expenditures: Physicians density: Drinking water source: Sanitation facility access: HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: HIV/AIDS - deaths: Major infectious diseases: Obesity - adult prevalence rate: Children under the age of 5 years underweight: Education expenditures: Literacy: People - note:
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Papua New Guinea on this page is re-published from the 2014 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Papua New Guinea People 2014 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Papua New Guinea People 2014 should be addressed to the CIA.
6,431,902 (July 2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 106
[see also: Population country ranks ]
0-14 years: 35.5% (male 1,160,586/female 1,120,258)
[see also: Age structure 0-14 years country ranks ]
15-24 years:
19.5% (male 636,602/female 619,885)
25-54 years:
36% (male 1,198,799/female 1,117,510)
55-64 years:
5.2% (male 167,625/female 164,018)
65 years and over:
3.8% (male 129,852/female 116,767) (2013 est.)
total dependency ratio: 69.3 %
[see also: Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio country ranks ]
youth dependency ratio:
64.3 %
elderly dependency ratio:
4.9 %
potential support ratio:
20.3 (2013)
total: 22.2 years
[see also: Median age - total country ranks ]
male:
22.4 years
female:
21.9 years (2013 est.)
1.89% (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 62
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25.4 births/1,000 population (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 57
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6.54 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 150
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0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 99
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urban population: 13% of total population (2010)
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rate of urbanization:
2.9% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
PORT MORESBY (capital) 314,000 (2009)
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
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0-14 years:
1.04 male(s)/female
15-24 years:
1.03 male(s)/female
25-54 years:
1.08 male(s)/female
55-64 years:
1.03 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
1.14 male(s)/female
total population:
1.05 male(s)/female (2013 est.)
230 deaths/100,000 live births (2010)
country comparison to the world: 50
[see also: Maternal mortality rate country ranks ]
total: 40.84 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 54
male:
44.53 deaths/1,000 live births
female:
36.97 deaths/1,000 live births (2013 est.)
total population: 66.66 years
country comparison to the world: 168
male:
64.44 years
female:
69 years (2013 est.)
3.31 children born/woman (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 51
[see also: Total fertility rate country ranks ]
32.4% (2007)
[see also: Contraceptive prevalence rate country ranks ]
4.3% of GDP (2011)
country comparison to the world: 155
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0.05 physicians/1,000 population (2008)
[see also: Physicians density country ranks ]
improved:
unimproved:
improved:
unimproved:
0.9% (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 50
[see also: HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate country ranks ]
34,000 (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 65
[see also: HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS country ranks ]
1,300 (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 62
[see also: HIV/AIDS - deaths country ranks ]
degree of risk: very high
food or waterborne diseases:
bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases:
dengue fever and malaria (2013)
16.2% (2008)
country comparison to the world: 115
[see also: Obesity - adult prevalence rate country ranks ]
18.1% (2005)
country comparison to the world: 40
[see also: Children under the age of 5 years underweight country ranks ]
NA
[see also: Education expenditures - percent of GDP country ranks ]
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
62.4%
male:
65.4%
female:
59.4% (2011 est.)
the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea is one of the most heterogeneous in the world; PNG has several thousand separate communities, most with only a few hundred people; divided by language, customs, and tradition, some of these communities have engaged in low-scale tribal conflict with their neighbors for millennia; the advent of modern weapons and modern migrants into urban areas has greatly magnified the impact of this lawlessness
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order
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