All About The Island of New Guinea

Today our class was cut short. Mr.Schick also had to leave early from class. We had to break up into groups and work on a new project. What we do today and Wednesday plus the info from Guns, Germs, and Steel will be on a quiz on Thursday.

Questions to Ask:
Papau New Guinea-
religions
languages
money average they made GNP per capita
TFR
Oil imports
growth rate
industries
agriculture
capital

Papua New Guinea 

      Papua New Guinea is located in East and Southeast Asia. The capital is Port Moresby and the largest city in Papua New Guinea. In 2009 its population was 307,643, giving it an annual growth rate of 2.1% over a nine year period. Papua New Guinea is mostly mountains with coastal lowlands and rolling foothill. It has a population of 6,064,515. It has a population growth rate of 2.033% making it ranked 51 compared to the rest of the world. They have a birth rate of 26.95 births per 1,000. Its ranked 53 compared to the rest of the world. They have a death rate of 6.62 deaths per 1,000 making it ranked 148 compared to the rest of the world. Life expectancy at birth there is 65.99 years. Males are 63.78 years and women are 68.31 years. They have total fertility rate of 3.54 born per a woman. They're ranked at 47 compared to the rest of the world. They have a literacy rate of 57.3%. Ages 15 and over can read and write. 63.4% of males can read and write. 50.9% of women are literate as well.There are 5 ethnic groups there. They are Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, and Polynesian. They have a variety of religions there. The religions are Roman Catholic 27%, 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%, indigenous beliefs and other 3.3%. There are some 860 indigenous languages spoken there. Tok Pisin, English, and Hiri Motu are official languages. Their government is a constitutional parliamentary democracy and a Common wealth realm. They have a net migration rate of 0 migrants. The weather is tropical there as well. Their natural resources are gold, copper, silver, natural gas, timber, oil, and fisheries. The GDP per capita is $2,500 and ranked 176 in the world. 37% of people are below the poverty line. Their unemployment rate is 1.8%, leaving them ranked at 11. The agriculture products are coffee, cocoa, copra, palm kernels, tea, sugar, rubber, sweet potatoes, fruit, vegetables, vanilla, shell fish; poultry, and pork. Also, their industries are copra crushing, palm oil processing, plywood production, wood chip production; mining of gold, silver, and copper; crude oil production, petroleum refining' construction, tourism.