Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea is a country located in Oceania, east of Indonesia, covering an area of approximately 462,840 square kilometers. As of 2025, Papua New Guinea has a population of about 10.27 million, with Tok Pisin, English, and Hiri Motu as official languages alongside some 839 living indigenous languages. The country is mostly mountainous with coastal lowlands and rolling foothills, featuring a tropical climate with northwest and southeast monsoons. Port Moresby serves as the capital, and the government operates as a parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy.

Papua New Guinea has a lower-middle-income economy with a GDP of $32.54 billion and a GDP per capita of $4,300, driven by agriculture, forestry, fishing, and mining of gold, copper, silver, natural gas, timber, and oil. Key agricultural products include oil palm fruit, coconuts, bananas, fruits, sweet potatoes, game meat, yams, root vegetables, vegetables, and sugarcane, while natural resources include gold, copper, silver, natural gas, timber, oil, and fisheries. The unemployment rate is 2.8% as of 2024, with a life expectancy of 66.3 years. Papua New Guinea is rich in natural resources and is a key exporter of liquefied natural gas, though it faces challenges including lack of progress in infrastructure, agricultural reform, and corruption.