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Papua New Guinea

  • Governor General:Bob Dadae
  • Prime Minister:James Marape
  • Capital city:Port Moresby
  • Languages:Tok Pisin (official), English (official), Hiri Motu (official), some 836 indigenous languages spoken (about 12% of the world's total); most languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers note: Tok Pisin, a creole language, is widely used and understood; English is spoken by 1%-2%; Hiri Motu is spoken by less than 2%
  • Government:No data
  • National statistics office
  • Population, persons:10,669,942 (2025)
  • Area, sq km:452,860
  • GDP per capita, US$:2,958 (2023)
  • GDP, billion current US$:30.7 (2023)
  • GINI index:41.9 (2009)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:120

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    • Global Democracy Ranking
      February 2025
      Source: Global Democracy Ranking
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 04 March, 2025
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      The average global index score stagnated in 2022. Despite expectations of a rebound after the lifting of pandemic-related restrictions, the score was almost unchanged, at 5.29 (on a 0-10 scale), compared with 5.28 in 2021. The positive effect of the restoration of individual freedoms was cancelled out by negative developments globally. The scores of more than half of the countries measured by the index either stagnated or declined. Western Europe was a positive outlier, being the only region whose score returned to pre-pandemic levels.