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Papua
New Guinea Main Page
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Papua
New Guinea's
Education and
Literacy
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Ethnic groups:
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Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito,
Micronesian, Polynesian
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Religions:
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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)
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Languages:
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Tok Pisin, English, and Hiri Motu are
official languages; some 860 indigenous languages spoken (over one-tenth
of the world's total)
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%
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Literacy:
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definition: age
15 and over can read and write
total population: 57.3%
male: 63.4%
female: 50.9%
(2000 census)
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Education expenditures:
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NA
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People - note:
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the indigenous population of Papua
New Guinea 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
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