1/11/13

Today in class we looked up facts about Papua New Guinea. They include the following.

-Papua New Guinea is one of the most culturally diverse countries on Earth
-13% of the entire population is Urban
-The terranes is mostly mountains, and mostly highlands
-About 1/3 population is living on less than $1.25 a day
-37% is below the poverty rate
-Their GDP growth is 8.9 which is 8th in the world.(12th fastest growing economy in the world)
-Their literacy rate is 57%
-841 different languages are listed for their country
-There is 125,000 internet users with 6million people, it is very low
-Their natural resources are gold, copper, silver, natural gas, timber, oil, fisheries
-Spends only 1.4% pf their GDP on military exposure
-Their unemployment rate is 1.9% (49/50 work)
-562 airport, about 22 are paved.



Also, we watched the last of the video that we are going to watch. It stated that the towns of New Guinea are becoming more bigger and more developed. And Jared Diamond found out that the answer to that man Yahli, who asked why us Americans have so much cargo, and them New Guineas have so little. His answer was "geography" and that is because we have a different, more need for the use of these kind of things. Since they do more things on their own, they don't need it as much as we do.