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Papua New Guinea
Population, total

Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.

Global rank#91out of 217 countries
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Historical trend

11 M8.6 M6.4 M4.2 M2.0 M196019932025Papua New Guinea · 2025: 10.76MPapua New Guinea

Analytical takeaways

  • Papua New Guinea records 10.76M for Population, total in 2025, ranking #91 globally out of 217 countries.
  • Population, total increased from 2.00M in 1960 to 10.76M in 2025, a gain of 8.77M.
  • The country sits in the middle of the global distribution for this metric, making the page a balanced entry point for comparative analysis beyond the extremes.

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