PNG Economic Database

5 September 2025

A gripping bird’s eye view of 50 years of PNG’s economic change

by Peter Ellis

13 March 2024

Subnational government spending in PNG

by Maholopa Laveil

PNG currency (Alyssa Leng)

19 July 2023

Evaluating the Bank of PNG’s views on foreign exchange

by Alyssa Leng and Jollanda Mathew

Women in the PNG Highlands sorting coffee beans (Commonwealth Secretariat-Flickr)

17 July 2023

What ails PNG’s coffee production? Elections and more

by Raymond Dorum, David Poka and Kingtau Mambon

Porgera gold mine in 2005 (Richard Farbelini-Wikimedia Commons)

16 February 2023

PNG as resource dependent as Saudi Arabia

by Stephen Howes and Alyssa Leng

James Marape in Enga Province, January 2023 (Department of Prime Minister & NEC-Facebook)

7 February 2023

Doubling of PNG MP funds a bad move

by Andrew Anton Mako and Stephen Howes

10 January 2023

Economic challenges await Papua New Guinea in 2023

by Andrew Anton Mako

8 December 2022

Is PNG’s economic bust over?

by Alyssa Leng and Stephen Howes

Ok Tedi Mine (Ok Tedi Mine CMCA Review)

14 October 2022

An ominous warning for PNG

by Andrew Anton Mako

Construction worker, Kokopo, PNG (US Pacific Fleet-Flickr)

28 September 2022

PNG’s minimum wage

by Stephen Howes, Kingtau Mambon and Kelly Samof