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- <text id=94CT1115><title>Papua New Guinea—People</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Papua New Guinea<nl>People</hdr><body>
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- <item><hi format=bold>Population:</hi> 4,196,806 (July 1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Population growth rate:</hi> 2.31% (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Birth rate:</hi> 33.5 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Death rate:</hi> 10.38 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Net migration rate:</hi> 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Infant mortality rate:</hi> 63.3 deaths/1,000 live births (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Life expectancy at birth:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total population:</hi> 56.43 years
- <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 55.6 years
- <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 57.31 years (1994 est.)
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- <item><hi format=bold>Total fertility rate:</hi> 4.65 children born/woman (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Nationality:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>noun:</hi> Papua New Guinean(s)
- <item>• <hi format=ital>adjective:</hi> Papua New Guinean
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- <item><hi format=bold>Ethnic divisions:</hi> Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian
- <item><hi format=bold>Religions:</hi> Roman Catholic 22%, Lutheran 16%, Presbyterian/Methodist/London Missionary Society 8%, Anglican 5%, Evangelical Alliance 4%, Seventh-Day Adventist 1%, other Protestant sects 10%, indigenous beliefs 34%
- <item><hi format=bold>Languages:</hi> English spoken by 1-2%, pidgin English widespread, Motu spoken in Papua region
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>note:</hi> 715 indigenous languages
- </list>
- <item><hi format=bold>Literacy:</hi> age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total population:</hi> 52%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 65%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 38%
- </list>
- <item><hi format=bold>Labor force:</hi> NA
- </list></body></article></text>
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