Papua New Guinea

Today in class we did research on the country of Papua New Guinea.  After about a half an hour we all shared some of our facts.  Their unemployment rate is 1.9%.  It is the 12th fastest growing economy in the world.  The country is the most undiscovered country in the world.  It has so many undiscovered exotic species of plants and animals.  The GDP for the real growth rate is 8.9%.  People are starting to cut down rain forests in New Guinea.  People make more money cutting down and selling mahogany wood more than plywood.  The net migration rate is zero.  The number one religion is Roman Catholic.  There is 542 unpaved airports and 20 paved airports.  Papua New Guinea has a military and an air force.  They have a potential of about three million soldiers in New Guinea if they were to go to war.  The legal age to be drafted into the war is sixteen.  Thirty-seven percent of the population is below the poverty line.  There are only six universities in the country of Papua New Guinea.  Most of the people that are literate are women.  There are 2.4 million cell phones being used in Papua New Guinea.  Thirteen percent of the population of Papua New Guinea are urban.  There are 3,105 people in Papua New Guinea are in the military.  The Internet hosts is 5,006 and the Internet users are 125,000.  57.3% of the people are literate and 42.7% are illiterate.  There are over 800 hundred languages spoken in Papua New Guinea.