New Guinea

     Today we did some group work in what Papua New Guinea is like today and we got some pretty amazing facts:

• Has the 12th fastest growing economy in the world
• Home to many, many animals because the area is mostly rural, so they're not deforesting the land so the animals have places to live, unlike most countries who clear out masses of land to make big cities
• There is over 800 languages put to use among the population
• 11 languages have no human speaker
• Very little interactions among people so they develop their own language
• Can cause tribal conflict
• Net migration rate is zero
• Surprisingly so because of their rising economy
• Not a lot of pull forces
• There is 542 unpaved runways
• 20 paved runways
• 37 percent of the population is over the poverty line
• Only 6 Universities
• 42.7 percent of the population is illiterate, this affects particularly women
• 13 percent of the population lives in urban areas
• over 50 percent of the world population lives in urban areas
•  3,100 out of 6 million people are actively in the military
• Seems small, but they are not a target of attack
• 125,000 people have access to the internet. 
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