PNG Facts

Today in class we chose a group of 3-4 kids to research on PNG on what is it like. There are 49/50 people to work that want to have work in the country which is way less then others. It is the 12th fastest growing economy in the world, part of that is because it was so far behind, but now everyone is participating and growing rapidly. The country is one of the least researched countries in the world which may have many different animals and plants that have been yet to be discovered. Everything that lives in the high mountains is what the world was like before the world has started deforesting it even though they are cutting down a little, but there are many things that are similar like the beginning of the world. The people of PNG's net migration rate is zero even though it has a booming economy. The number one religion is Roman Catholic. There are 542 unpaved airways (runways) for planes to land. The infrastructure is not there yet, even though they are doing it slowly. PNG has an army and even an air force and the legal age to get into it is 16. There are about 3 million people that could be drafted and there are. 37% of the population is below the poverty line, but these people have crops to grow by themselves. 13% of the population is urban in PNG. There are 2.4 million cell phones used in PNG out of around 6 million years. 3,100 people are in the active armed forces for the country. The three main sports are soccer, rugby, and cricket. The internet host is 5,006 and internet users are 125,000. There are only 57.3% of people that can read and write, also there are over 800 different languages (861) because the people don't interact with each other and when they interact with each other they have tribal conflict. 8.9% in gdp and they are ranked 12th fastest economy in the world. They only have 2 TV stations to serve 6.2 million. They export 6.48 billion. That is one of the reasons their economy is growing. They export gold, oil, lumber, coffee, coco, natural gas, and precious minerals. 10% of the languages in the world are from this little island nation. The life expectancy rate is 66 years old, even though their people live a very physical life style even though they don't have a good health care system. The tfr is 3.39. 13% if the people are in urban areas, but 50% of the people in the world live in cities.