World population/Papua New Guinea
Oceania
Population of Papua New Guinea
10,947,852
Growing by 0.01 people every second
#89
world rank
0.13%
of world population
+1.68%
yearly change
+183,424
people this year
257,492
births a year
72,660
deaths a year
How the figure for Papua New Guinea is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Papua New Guinea at 10,947,852 on 1 July 2026, and projects 11,131,276 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.01 people added every second.
That places Papua New Guinea at number 89 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.13 per cent of everyone alive, and among the largest of the 23 entries in Oceania.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 257,492 births and 72,660 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
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