Demographics Papua New Guinea

1 demographics

1.1 urbanisation
1.2 languages
1.3 health
1.4 religion

demographics


huli wigman southern highlands

papua new guinea 1 of heterogeneous nations in world. there hundreds of ethnic groups indigenous papua new guinea, majority being group known papuans, ancestors arrived in new guinea region tens of thousands of years ago. other indigenous peoples austronesians, ancestors having arrived in region less 4 thousand years ago.

there numerous people other parts of world resident, including chinese, europeans, australians, indonesians, filipinos, polynesians, , micronesians (the last 4 belonging austronesian family). around 40,000 expatriates, australia , china, living in papua new guinea in 1975.

urbanisation

languages


the language families in ross s conception of trans-new guinea language family

papua new guinea has more languages other country, on 820 indigenous languages, representing 12% of world s total, have fewer 1,000 speakers. spoken indigenous language enga, 200,000 speakers, followed melpa , huli. indigenous languages classified 2 large groups, austronesian languages , non-austronesian, or papuan, languages. there 4 official languages papua new guinea: english, sign language (which in practice means papua new guinean sign language), tok pisin , hiri motu.

english language of government , education system, not spoken widely.

the primary lingua franca of country tok pisin (commonly known in english new guinean pidgin or melanesian pidgin), in of debate in parliament conducted, many information campaigns , advertisements presented, , until national newspaper, wantok, published. area tok pisin not prevalent southern region of papua, people use third official language, hiri motu.

although lies in papua region, port moresby has highly diverse population uses tok pisin, , lesser extent english, motu spoken indigenous language in outlying villages. average of 7,000 speakers per language, papua new guinea has greater density of languages other nation on earth except vanuatu.

health

public expenditure @ 7.3% of government expenditure in 2006, whereas private expenditure @ 0.6% of gdp. there 5 physicians per 100,000 people in 2000s. malaria leading cause of illness , death in new guinea. in 2003, reported year, 70,226 cases of laboratory confirmed malaria reported, along 537 deaths. total of 1,729,697 cases probable.

papua new guinea has highest incidence of hiv , aids in pacific region , fourth country in asia pacific region fit criteria generalised hiv/aids epidemic. lack of hiv/aids awareness major problem, in rural areas.

the 2010 maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births papua new guinea 250. compared 311.9 in 2008 , 476.3 in 1990. under 5 mortality rate, per 1,000 births 69 , neonatal mortality percentage of under 5 s mortality 37. in papua new guinea number of midwives per 1,000 live births 1 , lifetime risk of death pregnant women 1 in 94.

religion

the courts , government practice uphold constitutional right freedom of speech, thought, , belief, , no legislation curb rights has been adopted. 2011 census found 95.6% of citizens identified members of christian church, 1.4% not christian, 3.1% did not answer census question. these stated no religion accounted for, approximately, 0%. many citizens combine christian faith traditional indigenous religious practices.

christianity in papua new guinea predominantly made of protestants, collectively constitute 70% of total population. represented evangelical lutheran church of papua new guinea, seventh-day adventist church, diverse pentecostal denominations, united church in papua new guinea , solomon islands, evangelical alliance papua new guinea, , anglican church of papua new guinea. apart protestants, there notable roman catholic minority approximately 25% of population.

among non christians, bahai faith has strong standing. there approximately 4,000 muslims in country. majority belong sunni group, while small number ahmadi. non-traditional christian churches , non-christian religious groups active throughout country. papua new guinea council of churches has stated both muslim , confucian missionaries active, , foreign missionary activity in general high.

traditional religions animist. tend have elements of veneration of dead, though generalisation suspect given extreme heterogeneity of melanesian societies. prevalent among traditional tribes belief in masalai, or evil spirits, blamed poisoning people, causing calamity , death, , practice of puripuri (sorcery).