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The World Bank estimates the number of international migrants in Papua New Guinea to be about 0.3% of the population. [3] According to the 2000 and 2011 census, the most common places of origin for international migrants were the United States, Australia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. [4]
Papua New Guinea has an urbanisation rate of 2.51%, measured as the projected change in urban population from 2015 to 2020. Largest cities and towns in Papua New Guinea www .geonames .org /PG /largest-cities-in-papua-new-guinea .html
The population of the Western Province refugee camps during the 2000 census was set at around 10,000, although the number of Indonesian refugees in the country is much higher. Squatter settlements Whole country; Most population centres in Papua New Guinea have shantytown-styled settlements, referred to as squatter settlements. Many people move ...
Demographics of Papua New Guinea This page was last edited on 12 May 2022, at 23:42 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
This is a list of Oceanian countries and dependencies by population in Oceania, which includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Projections are from the United Nations [ 1 ] and official figures are from the Pacific Community [ 2 ] and other official sources.
Haplogroup M is the most frequently occurring Y-chromosome haplogroup in Western New Guinea. [63] In a 2005 study of Papua New Guinea's ASPM gene variants, Mekel-Bobrov et al. found that the Papuan people have among the highest rate of the newly evolved ASPM haplogroup D, at 59.4% occurrence of the approximately 6,000-year-old allele. [64]
The indigenous peoples of Western New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, [1] are Melanesians.There is genetic evidence for two major historical lineages in New Guinea and neighboring islands: a first wave from the Malay Archipelago perhaps 50,000 years ago when New Guinea and Australia were a single landmass called Sahul and, much later, a wave of Austronesian ...
a: Papua New Guinea has over 860 non-official languages, comprising approximately ten percent of all languages on Earth. [ 29 ] ^ b: Melanesian pidgin is lingua franca in much of the country, but English remains the official language.