A Papua New Guinean researcher calls for Australia to help deliver its next national census amid speculation the population is as high as 17 million.
abc.net.au/news/grassroots-png-solution-to-concerns-population-is-17-million/101821532A Papua New Guinean researcher says Australia must help deliver the country's first census in more than a decade, to run alongside local initiatives, amid speculation its population is as high as 17 million.
With most of the country living in rural areas, National Research Institute director Osborne Sanida said it was the most-efficient way to track the population. "It was a good way to reduce cost for the government budget … you don't need to spend a lot of money. We get baseline data that is established through the system."
"PNG has 96 districts and 91 of those districts are rural, so counting, for example, night lights or house roofs … is not credible," he said.He said that, if the population was as high as 17 million, the public sector would have already buckled under the pressure. Lawyer Emma Minimbi helps women in rural PNG get access to justice. She said she wasn't surprised that the population might be far bigger than previously thought.
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