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The non-Christian portion of the indigenous population practices a wide variety of indigenous religions that are an integral part of traditional culture. These religions are mainly types of animism and veneration of the dead. The World Bank estimates the number of international migrants in Papua New Guinea to be about 0.3% of the population. [3]
Population of Papua New Guinea [ edit ] Although the government of Papua New Guinea had estimated the country's population at 9.4 million, unpublished findings of a population estimation study funded by the United Nations Population Fund [ 19 ] and conducted by WorldPop in November 2022 suggested the true population was close to 17 million.
Column four is from the UN Population Division [3] and shows a projection for the average natural increase rate for the time period shown using the medium fertility variant. Blank cells in column four indicate lack of data. Note: Rates below are per 1000 population. Location links are Demographics of LOCATION links.
The national 1 July, mid-year population estimates (usually based on past national censuses) supplied in these tables are given in thousands. The retrospective figures use the present-day names and world political division: for example, the table gives data for each of the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union, as if they had already been independent in 1950.
In Fearon's analysis, only groups containing over one percent of the country's population were considered. This limit made Papua New Guinea an outlier; as none of its thousands of groups included more than one percent of the population, it was considered to have zero groups and thus have a perfect fractionalization score of 1.
Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
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.
Guinea-Bissau: 0.483 Medium human development 2 Haiti: 0.552 3 Solomon Islands: 0.563 4 East Timor: 0.566 5 Papua New Guinea: 0.568 6 Comoros: 0.586 7 São Tomé and Príncipe: 0.613 8 Vanuatu: 0.614 9 Kiribati: 0.628 10 Micronesia: 0.634