Facts and Figures
Full name: Papua New Guinea
Nationality
Noun: Papua New Guinean(s) Adjective: Papua New Guinean
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Area total: 462,840 sq km land: 452,860 sq km water: 9,980 sq km
Population: 5,545,268 (July 2005 est.)
Ethnic groups
Melanesian Papuan Negrito Micronesian
Polynesian
Capital: Port Moresby, population 250,000
Largest Cities
Lae – 90,000 Madang – 30,000
Official Language: Melanesian Pidgin serves as the lingua franca, English spoken by 1%-2%, Motu spoken in Papua region
Note: 715 indigenous languages – many unrelated
Religion
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%
Political system: constitutional monarchy with parliamentary democracy
GDP: purchasing power parity – $11.99 billion (2004 est.)
GPD per head: purchasing power parity – $2,200 (2004 est.)
Annual growth: 0.9% (2004 est.)
GDP – composition by sector
agriculture: 34.5% industry: 34.7% services: 30.8% (2004 est.)
Inflation: 4.2% (2004 est.)