New Guinea Facts

1. New Guinea is the second largest island in the world. 
2. The population is about 6,064,51. 
3. The religions are 27% Roman Catholic, 19.5% Evangelical Lutheran, 11.5% United Church, 10% Seventh-Day Adventist, 8.6% Pentecostal, 5.2% Evangelical Alliance, 3.2% Anglican, 2.5% Baptist, 8.9% other Protestant, 0.3% Bahai, 3.3% indigenous beliefs and other.  
4. The urbanization is 12%. 
5. The unemployment is 1.8%.
6. The literacy rate is 57.3%.
7. Tok Pisin, English, and Hiri Motu are official languages; some 860 indigenous languages spoken. 
8. Papua, New Guinea has several thousand separate communities; divided by language, customs, and tradition, some of these communities have engaged in low-scale tribal conflict with their neighbors for millennia.
9. Capital is Port Moresby.
10. Population below the poverty line is 37%.