Papua New Guinea 
Facts
Population: 5,795,887 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 37.6% (male 1,107,568/female 1,070,594)
15-64 years: 58.5% (male 1,745,385/female 1,643,830)
65 years and over: 3.9% (male 106,487/female 122,023) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 2.163% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 28.76 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 7.14 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.035 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.062 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.873 male(s)/female
total population: 1.043 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 48.46 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 52.52 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 44.2 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 65.62 years
male: 63.41 years
female: 67.95 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 3.79 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.6% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 60,000 (2005 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 600 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Papua New Guinean(s)
adjective: Papua New Guinean.
Ethnic groups: Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian.
Religions: Roman Catholic 22%, Lutheran 16%, Presbyterian/Methodist/London Missionary Society 8%, Anglican 5%, Evangelical Alliance 4%, Seventh-Day Adventist 1%, other Protestant 10%, indigenous beliefs 34%.
Languages: Melanesian Pidgin serves as the lingua franca, English spoken by 1%-2%, Motu spoken in Papua region
note: 820 indigenous languages spoken (over one-tenth of the world's total).
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 57.3%
male: 63.4%
female: 50.9% (2000 census).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $15.41 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 3.7% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $2,700 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 35.7%
industry: 37.1%
services: 27.2% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 3.477 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 85%
industry: NA%
services: NA%.
Population below poverty line: 37% (2002 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.7%
highest 10%: 40.5% (1996).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.5% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 2% up to 80% in urban areas (2004).
Budget: revenues: $2.155 billion
expenditures: $2.166 billion; including capital expenditures of $344 million (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: coffee, cocoa, copra, palm kernels, tea, sugar, rubber, sweet potatoes, fruit, vegetables, vanilla; shell fish, poultry, pork.
Industries: copra crushing, palm oil processing, plywood production, wood chip production; mining of gold, silver, and copper; crude oil production, petroleum refining; construction, tourism.
Industrial production growth rate: NA%.
Electricity - production: 3.358 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 3.123 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $4.096 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: oil, gold, copper ore, logs, palm oil, coffee, cocoa, crayfish, prawns.
Exports - partners: Australia 28.8%, Japan 8.6%, China 5.4% (2005).
Imports: $1.686 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, food, fuels, chemicals.
Imports - partners: Australia 54.7%, Singapore 13.4%, Japan 4.3%, Malaysia 4.2% (2005).
Debt - external: $1.801 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $NA.
Currency (code): kina (PGK).
Exchange rates: kina per US dollar - 3.0643 (2006), 3.08 (2005), 3.2225 (2004), 3.5635 (2003), 3.8952 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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Port Moresby
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