I guess we’d better send them a lot of money so they can breed more and more and more.
The Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea has been underestimating its population by nearly half, researchers have found.
Known as being one of the world’s most violent nations, pockmarked by tribal fighting and insecurity, the country had a population of 9.4 million people, according to government estimates.
The new figure of 17 million, compiled by the United Nations with the help of British experts, slashes measures of living standards and places it among the world’s poorest.
It almost halves the country’s per capita income to about £980 a year — putting Australia’s closest neighbour on par with struggling African states such as Sudan and Senegal, according to a report in The Australian newspaper.
The study, to which researchers from University of Southampton’s World Population Unit contributed, is so sensitive that the Papua New Guinea government — already struggling to provide basic services to its people — refused permission for it to be published there.
The UN Population Fund study, funded by the Australian government, used satellite modelling, housing data and household surveys to arrive at the result.
Most of the growth is believed to be in the remote highlands provinces, where people survive through subsistence farming and violence is endemic.
In October more than 30 people were killed and another 15 left unaccounted for after bloody tribal fighting in Papua New Guinea’s remote Trobriand Islands.
Prime minister James Marape, who has vowed to make his country the “richest black Christian nation on planet Earth”, told The Australian he doubted the UN study’s results.
Marape, re-elected in August in elections marred by violence, said he believed the population was “possibly 10 million, 11 million” but conceded “I may be wrong”, and said even his lower estimate “is too high for the size of my economy”.
James Marape, PNG’s prime minister
“Whether it is 17 million, or 13 million or 10 million, the fact remains that my country’s formal economy is so small, job availability is so small, the resource envelope is so small, I cannot adequately educate, provide health cover, build infrastructures and create the enabling law and order environment [that the country needs],” he said.
Frankly, everyone I’ve ever met from Papua was very nice. I’m sure they’re very good people.
However, white people have manipulated the breeding in these countries by dumping free stuff on them. It’s not good for them and it’s not good for anyone else.
Everyone is a part of the order of nature, and going into foreign countries and funding a population explosion cannot possibly lead to anything good. What this does is lead to massive exoduses from poor countries into white countries. I would say “wealthier countries,” but the basic fact is that only white countries will accept floods of poor foreigners into their countries.
We should have approached the Third World with a Star Trek style prime directive, where people have to reach a certain level of technological development before being contacted.
I am very shocked that these people aren’t very good at counting