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Papua New Guinea

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Papua New Guinea is a country. The capital city is Port Moresby, located in the Melanesia region of Oceania. It has a land area of 452,860 km², a population of 10,389,635 people and uses the currency Papua New Guinea kina. The Prime Minister is James Marape.

Key facts

currency: Papua New Guinea kina
capital city: Port Moresby
region: Melanesia
continent: Oceania
land area: 452,860 km²
population: 10,389,635 people
political leader: James Marape (Prime Minister)

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central government debt: 48.19 % of GDP
expense: 19.45 % of GDP
GDP: 30,729,242,919.44 current US$
inflation: 2.30 annual %
self-employed workers: 78.30 % of total employment
tax revenue: 14.77 % of GDP
unemployment: 2.66 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 74.90 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 4,000 people
democracy score: 6.03
democracy type: Flawed democracy
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 87,000 people
individuals using the Internet: 24.10 % of population
military expenditure: 0.31 % of GDP
net migration: -787 people
press freedom: 3.17
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 2.70 %
birth rate: 25.11 per 1,000 people
death rate: 6.46 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 61.41 current US$
health expenditure: 2.32 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.65 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 0.17 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 66
suicide mortality rate: 3.00 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 14,410.00 km²
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 5.95 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 19.00 % of population
fertility rate: 3.17 births per woman
forest area: 357,887 km²
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 9.64 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 18.40
methane emissions: 3.16 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 0.56 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 5,041,654 people
male population: 5,347,981 people
renewable energy consumption: 54.60 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 462,122.30 km²
rural population: 8,963,865 people
urban land area: 415.40 km²
urban population: 1,425,770 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 4.77 % of total population

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Papua New Guinea is one of the countries in Oceania, countries in Melanesia and 194 countries in our database.

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Distribution of diseases by first founded year in Papua New Guinea

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