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Papua New Guinea Indicators

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East Asia & Pacific

Lower middle income

Region
Income
group

Population (millions)
5
1,817
886

Urban population (% of total)
16.8
33.9
57.7

GDP ($ billions)
4
1,693
1,477

GNP per capita, Atlas method ($)
890
990
1,740

Environmental strategy or action plan (year prepared)
1992

Agriculture

Land area (,000 sq. km)
453
15,968
36,096

Land use, permanent cropland (% of total land area)
1.3
2.6
0.8

Irrigated land (% of crop land)
...
36.9
15.0

Fertilizer consumption (100 grams/ha of arable land)
2,167
2,346
405

Food production index (1989-91=100)
112.4
154.8
128.7

Population density, rural (people per sq. km)
6260
688
449

Forests

Forest area (,000 sq. km)
369
3,832
11,083

Forest area (% of total land area)
81.6
24.0
30.8

Annual deforestation rate (% change, 1990-95)
0.4
0.8
0.2

Biodiversity

Mammal species, total known
214

Mammal species, threatened
57

Bird species, total known
644

Bird species, threatened
31

Nationally protected area (% of land area)
0.0
6.9
4.3

Energy

GDP per unit of energy use (PPP $ per kg of oil equivalent)
...
...
...

Commercial energy use per capita (kg of oil equivalent)
...
942
1,765

Energy imports, net (% of commercial energy use)
...
...
...

Electric power consumption per capita (kWh)
...
771
1,737

Share of electricity generated by coal (%)
...
59.3
24.3

Share of electricity generated by oil (%)
...
11.6
12.3

Emissions and pollution

CO₂ emissions per unit of GDP (kg per PPP $ of GDP)
0.2
0.8
0.9

Total CO₂ emissions, industrial (,000 kt)
2.4
4,715.5
3,940.6

CO₂ emissions per capita (mt)
0.5
2.7
4.6

Suspended particulate in capital city (microgr/m3)
...
...
...

Passenger cars (per ,000 people)
7
11
55

Water & Sanitation

Access to safe water (% of rural population)
28
84
...

Access to safe water in rural areas (% of rural population)
17
82
...

Access to safe water in urban areas (% of urban population)
84
89
...

Freshwater resources per capita (cubic meters)
177,940
...
11,805

Total freshwater withdrawal (% of total water resources)
0.0

Withdrawal for agriculture (% of total freshwater withdrawal)
49
80
75

Access to sanitation water in urban areas (% of urban population)
82
61
...

Access to sanitation water in rural areas (% of rural population)
11
13
...

Infant mortality rate (per ,000 live births)
59
35
35

National accounting aggregates

Gross domestic savings (% of GDP)
28.3
38.6
19.1

Consumption of fixed capital (%of GDP)
8.8
8.8
9.3

Net domestic savings (% of GDP)
19.5
29.8
9.8

Education expenditure (% of GDP)
5.8
2.4
4.1

Energy depletion (% of GDP)
4.3
1.4
6.0

Mineral depletion (% of GDP)
8.6
0.3
0.2

Net forest depletion (% of GDP)
0.0
0.6
0.2

CO₂ damage (% of GDP)
0.4
1.7
1.5

Gross domestic savings (% of GDP)
12.8
28.3
5.9

Indicators courtesy of The Little Green Data Book 2000, jointly produced by the Development Data Group (DECDG) and the Environmental Economics and Indicators Unit (EEI) of the World Bank.

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