Papua New Guinea Facts

1. About 6 million people
2. Second largest island in the world
3. Between the Coral Sea and South Pacific Ocean which is east of Indonesia
4. 54th largest countries in the world
5. Life Expectancy:

total population: 65.99 years

country comparison to the world: 162

male: 63.78 years

female: 68.31 years (2010 est.)

6. Literacy:

definition: age 15 and over can read and write

total population: 57.3%

male: 63.4%

female: 50.9% (2000 census)

7. Unemployment:

1.8% (2004)

country comparison to the world: 11

8. Oil Productions:

35,090 bbl/day (2009 est.)

country comparison to the world: 68

9. Industrial Production Growth:

10% (2010 est.)

country comparison to the world: 16

10. Agriculture: 

coffee, cocoa, copra, palm kernels, tea, sugar, rubber, sweet potatoes, fruit, vegetables, vanilla; shell fish; poultry, pork

11. Religions:

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%, Bahai 0.3%, indigenous beliefs and other 3.3% (2000 census)

12. Languages:

Tok Pisin, English, and Hiri Motu are official languages; some 860 indigenous languages spoken (over one-tenth of the world's total)

13. Ethnic Groups:

Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian