Papua New Guinea

arable land: 0.49%

permanent crops: 1.4%

natural resources: gold, copper, silver, natural gas, timber, oil, fisheries

population: 6,064,515 (July 2010 est.)

0-14 years: 37.3% (male 1,126,214/female 1,088,211)

15-64 years: 59.3% (male 1,815,731/female 1,704,430)

65 years and over: 3.5% (male 113,285/female 92,904) (2010 est.)

 

Population growth rate: 2.033% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 51  Birth rate: 26.95 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 53  Death rate: 6.62 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 148  religion: Roman Catholic Church (27.0%) Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea (19.5%) United Church (11.5%) Seventh-day Adventist Church (10.0%) Pentecostal (8.6%) Evangelical Alliance (5.2%) Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea (3.2%) Members Church of God International (2.0%) Baptist (0.5%) Church of Christ (0.4%) Jehovah's Witnesses (0.3%) Salvation Army (0.2%) Other Christian (8.0%) about 96% some type of christian literacy rate: 57.3% languages: 816 languages, including English 18% of the people live in cities 1.8% unemployment rate 11th in the world many mountains