Papua New Guinea beat out Indonesia and became the sixth fastest-growing economy in 2011.
=== Urbanisation ===According to the CIA World Factbook (2018), Papua New Guinea has the second lowest urban population percentage in the world, with 13
In 2019, Papua New Guinea took second place among Pacific Island states with 253 publications, behind Fiji with 303 publications, in the Scopus (Elsevier) database of scientific publications

