Papua New Guinea and Mauritania Comparison - Examine Similarities and Differences

Country
Papua New Guinea	Mauritania
Leader
Prime minister: Peter O'Neill	President: Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz
Population
6,431,902	3,437,610
Life Expectancy
66.660 years	61.910 years
Capital City
Port Moresby	Nouakchott
Largest city
Port Moresby (population: 283,733)	Nouakchott (population: 661,400)
Human Development Index
0.516	0.557
GDP per capita
$2,700 US	$2,100 US
Literacy Rate
57.3%	51.2%
Corruption Perception Index
2	2.8
Percentage of Women in Parliament
0.9%	19.9%
Wealthiest Citizens

Unemployment Rate
1.900%	30.000%
Death Penalty
Abolished in practice	Abolished in practice

Political System
constitutional parliamentary democracy	military junta
Independence date
16 September 1975 (from the Australian-administered UN trusteeship)	28 November 1960 (from France)
Religions
Roman Catholic 27%, Evangelical Lutheran 19.5%, United Church 11.5%, Seventh-Day Adventist 10%, Pentecostal 8.6%, Evangelical Alliance 5.2%, Anglican 3.2%, Baptist 2.5%, other Protestant 8.9%, Bahai 0.3%, indigenous beliefs and other 3.3% (2000 census)	Muslim 100%
Languages
Melanesian Pidgin serves as the lingua franca, English spoken by 1%-2%, Motu spoken in Papua region note: 820 indigenous languages spoken (over one-tenth of the world's total)	Arabic (official and national), Pulaar, Soninke, Wolof (all national languages), French, Hassaniya
Exports
oil, gold, copper ore, logs, palm oil, coffee, cocoa, crayfish, prawns	iron ore, fish and fish products, gold, copper, petroleum
External Debt
$4,860,000,000 $	$2,942,000,000 US
Exchange Rate
kina (PGK) per US dollar - 2.6956 (2008 est.), 3.03 (2007), 3.0643 (2006), 3.08 (2005), 3.2225 (2004)	ouguiyas (MRO) per US dollar - NA (2007), 271.3 (2006), 267.04 (2005), 265.8 (2004), 263.03 (2003)
Military Budget as percentage of GDP
0.500%	5.500%
Beijing Olympics Medal Count

Location
Oceania, group of islands including the eastern half of the island of New Guinea between the Coral Sea and the South Pacific Ocean, east of Indonesia	Northern Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Senegal and Western Sahara
Area
462,840 km sq	1,030,700 km sq
Coastline
5,152 km	754 km
Climate
tropical; northwest monsoon (December to March), southeast monsoon (May to October); slight seasonal temperature variation	desert; constantly hot, dry, dusty

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Papua New Guinea vs Mauritania