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7 April 2026

From taboo to transformation: fixing Fiji’s sexual and reproductive health gap

by Kristie Drucza, Kate Learmonth and Mosese Qasenivalu

20 November 2025

Unwanted births and fertility in Papua New Guinea

by Kingtau Mambon

19 November 2025

From vision to action: bracing for a greying Sri Lanka

by Rojie Ekanayake

18 December 2024

New data on sub-national governments in PNG

by Maholopa Laveil

Shanghai, People's Republic of China (Asian Development Bank-Flickr)

6 September 2022

Explaining growth from the dawn of humanity

by Matthew Woolf

Linguistic fragmentation across PNG

9 June 2021

Investigating district-level measures of well-being in PNG

by Colin Filer, Terence Wood and Jon Fraenkel

24 May 2021

DP95 Institutional constituents of human well-being in Papua New Guinea: a second district-level analysis

by Karen Downing

25 February 2021

DP92 Geographical constituents of human well-being in Papua New Guinea: a district-level analysis

by Karen Downing

PNG 2021 census

3 February 2021

The 2021 census risks failing again

by Maholopa Laveil

What is the population of Papua New Guinea?

2 February 2021

What is the population of Papua New Guinea?

by Michael Bourke and Bryant Allen

20 January 2021

DP90 Estimating the population of Papua New Guinea in 2020

by Karen Downing

6 November 2020

In the Pacific, migration and population growth are inversely related

by Stephen Howes, Beth Orton and Sherman Surandiran

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