!!!Papua New Guinea: People & Society
||Population|6,791,317 (July 2016 est.)
||Nationality|''noun'': Papua New Guinean(s) \\ ''adjective'': Papua New Guinean \\ 
||Ethnic groups|Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian
||Languages|Tok Pisin (official), English (official), Hiri Motu (official), some 836 indigenous languages spoken (about 12% of the world's total); most languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers \\ ''__note__'': Tok Pisin, a creole language, is widely used and understood; English is spoken by 1%-2%; Hiri Motu is spoken by less than 2% \\ 
||Religions|Roman Catholic 27%, Protestant 69.4% (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%), Baha'i 0.3%, indigenous beliefs and other 3.3% (2000 census)
||Age structure|''0-14 years'': 33.93% (male 1,173,034/female 1,131,387) \\ ''15-24 years'': 19.86% (male 683,474/female 665,245) \\ ''25-54 years'': 36.65% (male 1,281,641/female 1,207,658) \\ ''55-64 years'': 5.39% (male 185,846/female 180,255) \\ ''65 years and over'': 4.16% (male 143,851/female 138,926) (2016 est.) \\ 
||Dependency ratios|''total dependency ratio'': 67.1% \\ ''youth dependency ratio'': 62.1% \\ ''elderly dependency ratio'': 5% \\ ''potential support ratio'': 19.9% (2015 est.) \\ 
||Median age|''total'': 22.9 years \\ ''male'': 23 years \\ ''female'': 22.8 years (2016 est.) \\ 
||Population growth rate|1.75% (2016 est.)
||Birth rate|24 births/1,000 population (2016 est.)
||Death rate|6.5 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.)
||Net migration rate|0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)
||Urbanization|''urban population'': 13% of total population (2015) \\ ''rate of urbanization'': 2.12% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.) \\ 
||Major urban areas - population|PORT MORESBY (capital) 345,000 (2015)
||Sex ratio|''at birth'': 1.05 male(s)/female \\ ''0-14 years'': 1.04 male(s)/female \\ ''15-24 years'': 1.03 male(s)/female \\ ''25-54 years'': 1.06 male(s)/female \\ ''55-64 years'': 1.03 male(s)/female \\ ''65 years and over'': 1.06 male(s)/female \\ ''total population'': 1.04 male(s)/female (2016 est.) \\ 
||Maternal mortality rate|215 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
||Infant mortality rate|''total'': 37.4 deaths/1,000 live births \\ ''male'': 40.9 deaths/1,000 live births \\ ''female'': 33.8 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.) \\ 
||Life expectancy at birth|''total population'': 67.2 years \\ ''male'': 65 years \\ ''female'': 69.5 years (2016 est.) \\ 
||Total fertility rate|3.1 children born/woman (2016 est.)
||Contraceptive prevalence rate|32.4% (2006/07)
||Health expenditures|4.3% of GDP (2014)
||Physicians density|0.06 physicians/1,000 population (2008)
||Drinking water source|''improved'':  \\ urban: 88% of population \\ rural: 32.8% of population \\ total: 40% of population \\ ''unimproved'':  \\ urban: 12% of population \\ rural: 67.2% of population \\ total: 60% of population (2015 est.) \\ 
||Sanitation facility access|''improved'':  \\ urban: 56.4% of population \\ rural: 13.3% of population \\ total: 18.9% of population \\ ''unimproved'':  \\ urban: 43.6% of population \\ rural: 86.7% of population \\ total: 81.1% of population (2015 est.) \\ 
||HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate|0.79% (2015 est.)
||HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS|40,100 (2015 est.)
||HIV/AIDS - deaths|900 (2015 est.)
||Major infectious diseases|''degree of risk'': very high \\ ''food or waterborne diseases'': bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever \\ ''vectorborne diseases'': dengue fever and malaria \\  \\ ''__note__'': active local transmission of Zika virus by Aedes species mosquitoes has been identified in this country (as of August 2016); it poses an important risk (a large number of cases possible) among US citizens if bitten by an infective mosquito; other less common ways to get Zika are through sex, via blood transfusion, or during pregnancy, in which the pregnant woman passes Zika virus to her fetus (2016) \\ 
||Obesity - adult prevalence rate|25.5% (2014)
||Children under the age of 5 years underweight|27.9% (2011)
||Education expenditures|NA
||Literacy|''definition'': age 15 and over can read and write \\ ''total population'': 64.2% \\ ''male'': 65.6% \\ ''female'': 62.8% (2015 est.) \\ 
||People - note|the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is one of the most heterogeneous in the world; PNG has several thousand separate communities, most with only a few hundred people; divided by language, customs, and tradition, some of these communities have engaged in low-scale tribal conflict with their neighbors for millennia; the advent of modern weapons and modern migrants into urban areas has greatly magnified the impact of this lawlessness