Papua New Guinea
Independent State of Papua New Guinea
- Region
- Oceania · Melanesia
- Capital
- Port Moresby
- Population
- 10,762,817 (2025)
- Government
- parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy; a Commonwealth realm
- Currency
- Papua New Guinean kina (PGK)
- Official languages
- English, Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin
- Spoken languages
- Tok Pisin (official), English (official), Hiri Motu (official), some 839 living indigenous languages are spoken (about 12% of the world's total)
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 462,840 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- APEC, ASEAN (observer), IMF, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Indonesia
Political stability
55 / 100
Economic stability
37 / 100
Population stability
74 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- natural gas, gold, copper ore, palm oil, nickel (2023)
- Key imports
- refined petroleum, trucks, rice, plastic products, excavation machinery (2023)
- Natural resources
- gold, copper, silver, natural gas, timber, oil, fisheries
- Primary route
- Feeder services to Australian and Asian hubs
- Secondary route
- Transpacific connections via Fiji hubs
The xin.bz view
- Papua New Guinea is budgeting for El Niño as Bougainville faces an 80–90% chance of below-normal September–November rain and East Sepik reports drying rivers that double as roads — while Papua LNG targets a Q4 2026 investment decision (~6M t/year) and Wafi-Golpu copper-gold gains strategic value.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Redrawing the Pacific's Water and Fishery Map — Just as Oceania Becomes More Valuable to Global Food, Energy and Critical-Mineral Supply
Australia's 28M t wheat crop and El Niño fire signature, Pacific islands splitting into dry west and wet center, tuna revenue moving between EEZs, New Zealand's west–east water divide, and Australian LNG and rare earths gaining strategic value.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.