Guinea recorded an employment rate of 52% in 2025, according to the National Labour Observatory. The informal economy accounted for 77.4% of the active population, according to the ILO. Official ...

Papua New Guinea has a population officially estimated at around 9.4 million people, but it actually could be twice that, according to a new U.N. study that the local government has tried to suppress.

The European demographic transition of the nineteenth century is often proposed as a model for demographic change in twentieth century developing nations, and economic development is seen as leading ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Papua New Guinea’s prime minister says he does not know the exact size of his country’s population after a ...