The population density in Papua New Guinea was ***** people in 2022. In a steady upward trend, the population density rose by ***** people from 1961.

Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Papua New Guinea was reported at 22.53 sq. Km in 2022, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Papua New Guinea - Population density (people per sq. km) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Papua New Guinea: Population density, people per square km: The latest value from 2021 is 22 people per square km, unchanged from 22 people per square km in 2020. In comparison, the world average is 456 people per square km, based on data from 196 countries. Historically, the average for Papua New Guinea from 1961 to 2021 is 11 people per square km. The minimum value, 4 people per square km, was reached in 1961 while the maximum of 22 people per square km was recorded in 2020.

Papua New Guinea PG: Population Density: People per Square Km data was reported at 18.220 Person/sq km in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 17.853 Person/sq km for 2016. Papua New Guinea PG: Population Density: People per Square Km data is updated yearly, averaging 9.287 Person/sq km from Dec 1961 (Median) to 2017, with 57 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 18.220 Person/sq km in 2017 and a record low of 4.531 Person/sq km in 1961. Papua New Guinea PG: Population Density: People per Square Km data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Papua New Guinea – Table PG.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.; ; Food and Agriculture Organization and World Bank population estimates.; Weighted average;

The world's most accurate population datasets. Seven maps/datasets for the distribution of various populations in Papua New Guinea: (1) Overall population density (2) Women (3) Men (4) Children (ages 0-5) (5) Youth (ages 15-24) (6) Elderly (ages 60+) (7) Women of reproductive age (ages 15-49).

The total population of Papua New Guinea was estimated at about 12.54 million people in 2024. Between 1980 and 2024, the total population rose by approximately 9.58 million people, though the increase followed an uneven trajectory rather than a consistent upward trend. The total population will steadily rise by around 1.67 million people over the period from 2024 to 2030, reflecting a clear upward trend.This indicator describes the total population in the country at hand. This total population of the country consists of all persons falling within the scope of the census.

22.5 (people per sq. km) in 2022. Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers.

Constrained estimates, total number of people per grid-cell. The dataset is available to download in Geotiff format at a resolution of 3 arc (approximately 100m at the equator). The projection is Geographic Coordinate System, WGS84. The units are number of people per pixel. The mapping approach is Random Forest-based dasymetric redistribution.

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Comprehensive socio-economic dataset for Papua New Guinea including population demographics, economic indicators, geographic data, and social statistics. This dataset covers key metrics such as GDP, population density, area, capital city, and regional classifications.

This statistic shows the median age of the population in Papua New Guinea from 1950 to 2100*.The median age is the age that divides a population into two numerically equal groups; that is, half the people are younger than this age and half are older. It is a single index that summarizes the age distribution of a population. In 2020, the median age of the Papua New Guinean population was 21.7 years.

This bar chart displays population (people) by date using the aggregation sum in Papua New Guinea. The data is filtered where the date is 2021. The data is about countries per year.

In 2020, there were approximately **** million adults in Papua New Guinea. From 2011 the number of adults in the country has increased steadily.

DATASET: Alpha version 2010 and 2015 estimates of numbers of people per grid square, with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/) and remaining unadjusted. REGION: Asia SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator) PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84 UNITS: Estimated persons per grid square MAPPING APPROACH: Land cover based, as described in: Gaughan AE, Stevens FR, Linard C, Jia P and Tatem AJ, 2013, High resolution population distribution maps for Southeast Asia in 2010 and 2015, PLoS ONE, 8(2): e55882 FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org) FILENAMES: Example - VNM_popmap10adj_v2.tif = Vietnam (VNM) population count map for 2010 (popmap10) adjusted to match UN national estimates (adj), version 2 (v2). DATE OF PRODUCTION: January 2013

PG：人口密度：每平方公里人口在12-01-2017达18.220Person/sq km，相较于12-01-2016的17.853Person/sq km有所增长。PG：人口密度：每平方公里人口数据按年更新，12-01-1961至12-01-2017期间平均值为9.287Person/sq km，共57份观测结果。该数据的历史最高值出现于12-01-2017，达18.220Person/sq km，而历史最低值则出现于12-01-1961，为4.531Person/sq km。CEIC提供的PG：人口密度：每平方公里人口数据处于定期更新的状态，数据来源于World Bank，数据归类于全球数据库的巴布亚新几内亚 – 表 PG.世行.WDI：人口和城市化进程统计。

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a total land area of 462,000 square kilometers (km2), making it the largest Pacific island country. Its exclusive economic zone at 3.12 million km2 is the world’s second largest. The country’s sparsely distributed population of only 7 million makes PNG’s population density of approximately 9 people per km2 the lowest in the South Pacific. PNG’s principal marine and coastal ecosystems include 13,840 km2 of coral reefs, 4,200 km2 of mangrove swamp forests, and extensive seagrass beds. The country is home to at least 500 species of stony coral, 1,635 reef-associated fish species, 43 mangrove species, and 7 seagrass species.

BACKGROUND: The effective management and conservation of biodiversity is predicated on clearly defined conservation targets. Species number is frequently used as a metric for conservation prioritization and monitoring changes in ecosystem health. We conducted a series of synoptic surveys focusing on the fishes of the Bootless Bay region of Papua New Guinea to generate a checklist of fishes of the region. Bootless Bay lies directly south of Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, and experiences the highest human population density of any marine area in the country. Our checklist will set a baseline against which future environmental changes can be tracked RESULTS: We generated a checklist of 488 fish species in 72 families found in Bootless Bay during a two-week sampling effort. Using incident-based methods of species estimation, we extrapolate there to be approximately 940 fish species in Bootless Bay, one of the lowest reported numbers in Papua New Guinea. CONCLUSIONS: Our data suggest that the Bootless Bay ecosystem of Papua New Guinea, while diverse in absolute terms, has lower fish biodiversity compared to other shallow marine areas within the country. These differences in faunal diversity, are most likely a combination of unequal sampling effort as well as biophysical factors within Bootless Bay compounded by historical and/or contemporary anthropogenic disturbances.

A rapid biodiversity assessment ("BioRap") project identified candidate areas for biodiversity protection in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and provides an ongoing evaluation framework for balancing biodiversity conservation and other land use needs. Achieving a biodiversity protection target with minimum opportunity cost was an important outcome given that biodiversity values overlap with forestry production values, and high forgone forestry opportunities would mean significant losses to land owners and the government. Allocation of 16.8% of PNG‟s land area to some form of biodiversity protection was required, in order to achieve the level of biodiversity representation/persistence that would have been possible using only 10% of the land area if there were no constraints on land allocation and no land use history. This result minimizes potential conflict with forestry production opportunities while also taking account of land use history, human population density and previous conservation assessments. The analysis provides more than a single set of proposed priority areas. It is a framework for progressively moving towards a country-wide conservation goal, while at the same time providing opportunities to alter the priority area set in light of new knowledge, changes in land use, and/or changes in economic and social conditions.

In 2024, Papua New Guinea had the largest population of the Pacific Island nations, with around *** million people. The second-highest population in the region was Fiji, with just over *** thousand people.

The conservation of threatened elasmobranchs in tropical regions is challenging due to high local reliance on aquatic and marine resources. Due primarily to fishing pressure, river sharks (Glyphis) and sawfishes (Pristidae) have experienced large population declines in the Indo-Pacific. Papua New Guinea (PNG) may offer a refuge for these species, as human population density is low, and river shark and sawfish populations are thought to persist. However, few data are available on these species in PNG, and risk posed by small-scale fishers is poorly understood. This study observed elasmobranch catches in small-scale fisheries in riverine and coastal environments in the East Sepik (northern region), Gulf, and Western Provinces (southern region) of PNG. Surveys were conducted over a period of weeks to months in each region, during the dry season across seven field trips from 2017 to 2020. We observed a total of 783 elasmobranchs encompassing 38 species from 10 families. River sharks made up 29.4% of observations in the southern region, while sawfishes made up 14.8 and 20.3% in the northern and southern regions, respectively. River sharks were commonly caught by small-scale fishers in lower riverine environments in southern PNG, while sawfishes were generally less common and mainly observed through dried rostra. The primary threat to river shark and sawfish populations is their capture by small-scale fishers targeting teleosts for swim bladder. Persisting populations of river sharks and sawfishes indicate that PNG is the second known nation with viable populations of multiple species in the Indo-Pacific. However, populations are declining or at high risk of decline, and fisheries management and conservation are required to realize the potential of PNG as a long-term refuge.

Population distribution of PNG by province according to malaria incidence strata, 2019.