- ISO 3166
PG- Main language + region
tpi-PG- Currency
- PGK · Papua New Guinean Kina
- Region
- not grouped
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea has 10M people, and 1.9M of them are online. Tok Pisin is the most widely spoken language at 71%, one of 3 languages CLDR lists here. Tok Pisin, English, and Hiri Motu are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to tpi-PG.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
1.9M
0%world median 81%100%
19% of 10M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$3,020
Higher than 23% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
—
No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown.
Languages
3
Tok Pisin 71% · English 50% · Hiri Motu 2.1%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 3 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
62%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
CLDR also records diaspora populations, so a language reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (tpi-PG).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
April 21, 2026
Short: 4/21/26
Time
6:30 PM
Week starts Mon
Currency
PGK 1,234.56
1,234.56 in PGK · Papua New Guinean Kina