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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea's best placing is 3rd of 179 for rainfall.

Best placing: #3Rainfall
Top 10 placings: 2 / 14
Population: 10.8 million
Land area: 452,860 km²

Every ranking

Best placings first. The bar shows how far up the ranking Papua New Guinea is.

Rainfall

#3 of 179

3,142 mm of precipitation per year

1st in Oceania · World Bank · 2022

Forest by area

#8 of 194

79.0 % of land area covered by forest

World Bank · 2023

Forest per person

#14 of 194

0.0332 km² of forest per person

World Bank · 2023

Airports

#14 of 193

569 airports

2nd in Oceania · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Airports per person

#17 of 192

52.87 airports per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Forest

#19 of 194

357,552 km² of forest

2nd in Oceania · World Bank · 2023

Coastline

#23 of 151

5,152 km of coastline

5th in Oceania · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Land area per person

#33 of 194

0.042 km² of land per person

World Bank · 2023

Airports by area

#50 of 191

12.56 airports per 10,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Land area

#54 of 194

452,860 km² of land

2nd in Oceania · World Bank · 2023

Population

#91 of 195

10,762,817 people

2nd in Oceania · World Bank · 2025

GDP

#107 of 182

32,498,658,654 US$ (current prices)

3rd in Oceania · World Bank · 2025

GDP per person

#138 of 182

3,020 GDP per person (US$)

World Bank · 2025

Population by area

#162 of 194

23.77 people per km²

World Bank · 2025

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