2/4/2011

Today in class we partnered up and discovered more information about Papua New Guniean's by looking at the CIA world factbook. We found out how they moved in to the 20th century in modern day today.

There are 6,064,515 people living in Papua New Guinea. Only 57.3% of New Guinean’s over the age of 15 can read and write. The unemployment rate is 1.8%. Some people are crop crushers, palm oil processing, plywood production, wood chip production, mining of gold, silver, and copper; crude oil production, petroleum refining, construction and tourism. Permanent crops for the land us of Papua New Guinea is 1.4%. They produce coffee, cocoa, copra, palm kernels, tea, sugar, rubber, sweet potatoes, fruits, vegetables, vanilla, shell fish, poultry and pork. Papua New Guinea has more languages than any other country with an average of 7,000 speakers per language. Total fertility rate is 3.54 life expectancy is 65