Head of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by a Governor-General. Prime minister : Peter O'Neill
President: Danilo Turk
Population
6,310,129
1,996,617
Life Expectancy
66.460 years
77.480 years
Capital City
Port Moresby
Ljubljana
Largest city
Port Moresby (population: 283,733)
Ljubljana (population: 255,115)
Human Development Index
0.516
0.923
GDP per capita
$2,600 US
$29,000 US
Literacy Rate
57.3%
99.7%
Corruption Perception Index
2
6.7
Percentage of Women in Parliament
0.9%
10%
Wealthiest Citizens
Unemployment Rate
1.900%
11.800%
Death Penalty
Abolished in practice
Abolished
Political System
constitutional parliamentary democracy
parliamentary republic
Independence date
16 September 1975 (from the Australian-administered UN trusteeship)
25 June 1991 (from Yugoslavia)
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)
Catholic 57.8%, Muslim 2.4%, Orthodox 2.3%, other Christian 0.9%, unaffiliated 3.5%, other or unspecified 23%, none 10.1% (2002 census)
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)
Slovenian 91.1%, Serbo-Croatian 4.5%, other or unspecified 4.4% (2002 census)
manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food
External Debt
$5,296,000,000 $
$61,230,000,000 US
Exchange Rate
kina (PGK) per US dollar - 2.6956 (2008 est.), 3.03 (2007), 3.0643 (2006), 3.08 (2005), 3.2225 (2004)
euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.67 (2008 est.), 0.7345 (2007), tolars per US dollar - 190.85 (2006), 192.71 (2005), 192.38 (2004) note: Slovenia adopted the euro as its currency on 1 January 2007
Military Budget as percentage of GDP
1.400%
1.700%
Beijing Olympics Medal Count
0
5
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
Central Europe, eastern Alps bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Austria and Croatia
Area
462,840 km sq
20,273 km sq
Coastline
5,152 km
47 km
Climate
tropical; northwest monsoon (December to March), southeast monsoon (May to October); slight seasonal temperature variation
Mediterranean climate on the coast, continental climate with mild to hot summers and cold winters in the plateaus and valleys to the east
