ilian police service under the new name of Panamanian
Public Forces (PPF); a Council of Public Security and National Defense
under Menalco Solis in the office of the president coordinates the
activities of the security forces; the Institutional Protection Service
under Carlos Bares is attached to the presidency

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 644,895; 444,522 fit for
military service; no conscription

_#_Defense expenditures: $75.5 million, 1.5% of GDP (1990)
_%_
_@_Papua New Guinea
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 461,690 km2; land area: 451,710 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than California

_#_Land boundary: 820 km with Indonesia

_#_Coastline: 5,152 km

_#_Maritime claims: (measured from claimed archipelagic baselines);

Continental shelf: 200 m (depth) or to depth of exploitation;

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Climate: tropical; northwest monsoon (December to March), southeast
monsoon (May to October); slight seasonal temperature variation

_#_Terrain: mostly mountains with coastal lowlands and rolling
foothills

_#_Natural resources: gold, copper, silver, natural gas, timber,
oil potential

_#_Land use: arable land NEGL%; permanent crops 1%; meadows and
pastures NEGL%; forest and woodland 71%; other 28%

_#_Environment: one of world's largest swamps along southwest coast;
some active volcanos; frequent earthquakes

_#_Note: shares island of New Guinea with Indonesia

_*_People
_#_Population: 3,913,186 (July 1991), growth rate 2.3% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 34 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 11 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 66 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 55 years male, 56 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 4.9 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--Papua New Guinean(s); adjective--Papua New
Guinean

_#_Ethnic divisions: predominantly Melanesian and Papuan; some
Negrito, Micronesian, and Polynesian

_#_Religion: Roman Catholic 22%, Lutheran 16%,
Presbyterian/Methodist/London Missionary Society 8%, Anglican 5%,
Evangelical Alliance 4%, Seventh-Day Adventist 1%, other Protestant sects
10%; indigenous beliefs 34%

_#_Language: 715 indigenous languages; English spoken by 1-2%, pidgin
English widespread, Motu spoken in Papua region

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