Papua New Guinea

We finished watching the movie in class on Friday, and then we looked up whatever we could find about the country that wasn't mentioned in the movie.  It had to be important and it also had to be different from what anyone else said.  In the end of the movie though, it talked through the question, "Why do you white people have so much cargo, and we New Guineans have so little."  (Diamond said it was because of the geographical luck).  Some of the fact that were mentioned or that we had to talk about are that Papua New Guinea spends only 1.4% of the GDP on their military expenditure.  They are number 106 in the world.  37% of the people are below the poverty rate, but their GDP rate is really high: 12 in the world.  Mainly because they started out so badly.  57% of them can read and write, that means 43% cannot.  There are 860 different languages spoken there, way more than in the USA.  Unemployment rate is 1.9%, so for the most part, they are really behind, but they are still progressing.  On the coast it is lots more modern than those in the highlands. Twelfth fastest growing economy in the world. Birth rate is 56 in the world.  Median age is 22.  GDP per capita is $2,500.  TFR is 3.39, and the net migration rate is zero! 13% are in cities, and 87% are in the forest.  Over half the people in the world now live in cities.  Export a total of 6.48 and imports 6.1 billion imports.  They are exporting mainly gold and oil, also seafood and hardwood.  1-2% speak English.  Also 2 T.V stations.