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Papua New Guinea

 Australia
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 		 Papua New Guinea
All information: Papua New Guinea
 
Area:7,741,220 km² 462,840 km²
Population:24,983,000 8,606,000

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Government

Government form:Parliamentary democracy (under constitutional monarchy) Parliamentary democracy (under constitutional monarchy)
Independent since:1901 n.Chr. 1975 n.Chr.
Capital:Canberra Port Moresby


Population

Inhabitants per km²:3.2 18.6
Life expectancy males:80.7 years 63.0 years
Life expectancy females:84.9 years 65.6 years
Average age:37.2 years 20.9 years
Birthrate:12.60 ‰ 27.07 ‰
Deathrate:6.30 ‰ 7.43 ‰
Migrationrate:8.10 ‰ 0.00 ‰


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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Political stability:87 50
Civil rights:100 24
Health:87 21
Security:97 76
Climate:90 42
Cost of Living:24 21
Popularity:67 1


Economy

Currency:Australian Dollar (1 AUD = 100 Cents)  Kina (1 PGK =100 Toea)
Unemployment rate:5.3 % 2.5 %
Inflation rate:1.61 % 3.64 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:47.40 % 37.10 %
Average income:47,566 € 2,296 €
Corruption index:77 (good) 28 (very bad)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:1,280,844 Mio €51.27 M € 20,989 M €2.44 M €
Gross national product:1,188,421 Mio €47.57 M € 19,751 M €2.29 M €
Exported goods:292,371 M €11.70 M € 9,466 M €1.10 M €
Imported goods:277,110 M €11.09 M € 4,327 M €0.50 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:873,573 km34.97 km 9,349 km1.09 km
Waterways:2,000 km0.08 km 11,000 km1.28 km
Harbours:5790.023 1710.020
Airports:4800.019 5610.065


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:229.40 bn kWh9.18 m kWh 3.24 bn kWh376,119.12 kWh
Energy production:243.00 bn kWh9.73 m kWh 3.48 bn kWh404,470.39 kWh
CO2 emissions:361.26 m t14,460.49 t 6.32 m t734.14 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+61 +675
Internet domain:.au .pg
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:8,090,000324 158,00018
Mobile phones:28,279,0001,132 4,018,000467
Internet server:17,081,000684 5,0061
Internet users:21,621,280865 964,699112



Healthcare system

Hospital beds/1000 inh.:3.80 4.02
Physicians per 1000 inh.:3.59 0.05
Diabetes sufferers:5.6 % 17.9 %
HIV sufferers:0.08 % 0.40 %
Tuberculosis sufferers:0.1 % 4.3 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:82.0 % 68.0 %
Smokers:14.7 % 36.3 %

Climate

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Daytime temperatures:24.5 °C 30.1 °C
Nighttime temperatures:12.7 °C 22.7 °C
Water temperature:26.3 °C 27.9 °C
Relative humidity:67 % 81 %
Absolute humidity:13 g/m³ 23 g/m³
Rain days per year:72 177.6
Sunshine hours per day:8.0 5.8


Native languages

Papuan languages:n/a 78.1 %
English:76.8 % n/a
Chinese:2.8 % n/a
Italian:1.4 % n/a
Arabic:1.3 % n/a
Vietnamese:1.1 % n/a
Greek:1.1 % n/a
other:15.5 % 21.9 %


Religions

Christianity:61.1 % 96.4 %
nondenominational:22.3 % n/a
Buddhism:2.5 % n/a
Islam:2.2 % n/a
Hinduism:1.3 % n/a
Jewry:0.5 % n/a
Bahaism:n/a 0.3 %
other:10.1 % 3.3 %