Population study shocks Papua New Guinea

A United Nations study has found Papua New Guinea could have a population of almost 17 million.
The new study suggests the island nation has underestimated its population by almost 8 million people.
The World Health Organization estimates there is only one doctor for every 10,000.
The news is expected to influence Australia's foreign aid program, which currently donates $600 million to its neighbour.

[@maddogmorgan8737]

We should be sending them 600 million condoms rather than 600 million dollars.

[@Eliteplayer-mq3pm]

I totally agree with you

[@malicktjmatiabeyuwi7587]

send condoms to Australia and indonesia only.

[@majorkahrah8804]

Blow them up and used them as baloons in birthday parties.😂

[@VenKendil]

Wouldnt that cost more coz of shipping and what not...unless of course if dont wanna pack em you can always wear em (melanasian-mentality)

[@mk1479]

600million when we can use that money here... Instead we help people who want to eat us...

[@SeeLasSee]

Actually these days they’re more horrified by the idea of cannibalism than Australians or Americans. Missionaries did their job well. I lived there growing up and my mother has worked there as an anthropologist for 37 years on and off.

[@mk1479]

@dianneclark3442 Yeah, that's why pilots who bring supplies don't want to hang around too long... Yes they helped during WWII, but I wouldn't sleep well at night there.. let's just leave it at that, shall we...

[@Eliteplayer-mq3pm]

You're the dumbest piece of shit on this earth! Papua New Guineans don't eat people you stupid dumb ass. Grab a book and read dumass

[@mk1479]

@@Eliteplayer-mq3pm My, but where did you learn to use that language? From your mother working the streets? Read a lot of books and spoke to pilots who fly in PNG... Funny how they all say the same thing, which is "we don't hang around here too long"... Wash your mouth and learn to string a sentence without foul language...

[@Eliteplayer-mq3pm]

@@mk1479 Papua New Guineans don't straight up eat people. Your pilots fly to the remote villages and come back saying they eat people. I've been there way too many times to know that it's a nice country full of nice people. Next time gather facts instead of listening to stories.

[@SeeLasSee]

This is sad as it will intensify their problems if their population has grown so much. I have lived there and have great affection for the country.

[@anonymous.nobody]

Same here, saw some of the problems due to lack of an adequate medical system and it is hard to see people go through that.

[@kellysouter4381]

That news confirms they can't afford birth control.

[@malicktjmatiabeyuwi7587]

birth control is other nations

[@malicktjmatiabeyuwi7587]

birth control is for other nations.

[@6969michael6969]

Yes. Same here in Australia probably double also. Sydney's population has been 5 million for 20 years

[@stewatparkpark2933]

They told us that the pandemic was going to decimate PNG .

[@BamidBar-z2g]

What is the intension of such estimate when a proper census has not being conducted since 2020. Anyone can produce an estimate. The current estimates of its population between 9 and 10 million is based on reliable data from the 2000 and 2011 Censuses.

[@malicktjmatiabeyuwi7587]

It's already foretold in the Bible that real Israelites will multiply in numerous as the sand of the sea.

[@Eliteplayer-mq3pm]

Wooww that's mind blowing

[@davepowelldrumz]

theyre overpopulated and we pay.

[@stefanantolin5501]

Make cannibalism compulsory again. lol

[@KIA-MIA-POW]

Back when PNG was TPNG the problems then and those forecast were never taken seriously. Rampant corruption, crime, disease and unemployment continue to plague...

[@maxrebo8455]

Not a surprise. Failed state on our doorstep. I mean we did run the place until the 70s but didn’t do enough to leave institutions in place.

[@advanceaustralia4861]

Gough handed it over to people who couldn’t run a bath.

[@Joshdyisdifh]

Should've kept the Southern part!

[@maxrebo8455]

@@Joshdyisdifh Nah, what’s the point? We’ve still got a few remote tropical paradises like the Cocos Island that are far easier to manage. We’d just get flooded with millions of people looking for work as I’m sure there would eventually have been freedom of movement.

[@Joshdyisdifh]

@@maxrebo8455 Australia would've had a perfect EEZ advantage over Torres Strait.

[@stefanantolin5501]

@@advanceaustralia4861 Well Gough was smart enough to quickly realize that a century of right wing mismanagement was even beyond his great skills to reverse, crikey he had his work cut out with his own country to start with cobba.

[@jerahmeelexeliuscrilierkut1359]

😢😢

[@holycanoli3615]

Hmmm, sounds like they don't have an overabundance of doctors unaliving people.

[@nicolasrobacinni4831]

Aren’t they are hannibals??

[@ohyeah11000]

every single one. don't go there on vacation...

[@bangbangzz1]

Hannibals 🤣

[@DanielSMatthews]

Not sure if that is an active cultural practice three days but yes they were, even the Australian aboriginals practiced funerary rituals that involve eating their dead relatives and warriors were known to eat some of the internal organs of those they killed, to "absorb their strength."

[@Butchsiek]

Maybe its Channibals.. Or Cannisabals.. Or Cannibals Anyway, Not Hannibals, the dont have Chianti with their food

[@SeeLasSee]

Actually these days they’re more horrified by the idea of cannibalism than Australians or Americans. Missionaries did their job well. I lived there growing up and my mother has worked there as an anthropologist for 37 years on and off.

[@chrismitchell6274]

Witch Doctor?

[@mohdismail2049]

Ever care hospital

[@rogerwilco4736]

That one over there😂

[@ThaRealChuckD]

Cannibal peeps. Make sure they don't starve!

[@SeeLasSee]

Actually these days they’re more horrified by the idea of cannibalism than Australians or Americans. Missionaries did their job well. I lived there growing up and my mother has worked there as an anthropologist for 37 years on and off.

[@VenKendil]

Austrailia: lets name it Papua New Guinea Papua New Guineans: ... Australia: lets introduce em to money Papua New Guineans: ... Australia: lets give em 600mill AusAid Papua New Guneans: 😊 🫂 🙏 Austrailia: na too expensive Papua New Guineans: ...uhh ok