A consolidated migration profile for Papua New Guinea: who arrives, who leaves, how many people are hosted or displaced, and the national context behind those numbers. Every figure below is a reported value from an official source — nothing is estimated or filled in.
The headline counts for the most recent reporting year. Refugees hosted are people this country protects; asylum-seekers are still awaiting a decision; applications are new asylum claims lodged during the year.
Net migration is arrivals minus departures over the year. Positive means more people moved in than out. Migrant stock is the total foreign-born people living here now.
Recorded migrant, refugee and asylum populations over time. Each line is one category; gaps mean a year the source did not report a figure (the line bridges the gap rather than dropping to zero).
How the population breaks down across reported dimensions, grouped by the year each figure was reported (most recent first). Bars show each group’s share of the total; where only headcounts were published, the raw number is shown instead.
Share of the population by faith across the recorded years. Each line is a stored national value; nothing is estimated.
No places-of-worship counts are recorded for this country yet. See the Places of worship page for the full picture.
See the full places-of-worship timeline for this country → · browse individual places →
Displaced population by age cohort for the most recent reported year. Age is summed across sexes in the source data, so this is a single series per cohort — not a male/female split.
Displaced population by sex over the reported years, stacked so the top line reads as the total.
These charts place migration next to quality-of-life indicators over time. Correlation is not causation — a relationship here does not prove migration caused the change, or that a change caused the migration.
$32.50B
Reported 2025
$3,020
Reported 2025
Migrant stock as a share of the population (left axis, in percent) shown against life expectancy (right axis, in years) over the years.
Each point is one year: migrant share of population (x, in percent) versus life expectancy (y, in years).
National crime figures for context only — they describe the whole resident population and are not a measure of migrant offending.
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 9.34 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 9.41 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 8.39 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 7.47 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 9.04 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 9.23 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 9.94 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 7.93 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 7.61 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 8.40 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 8.41 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 9.72 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 78.00 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 29.00 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 26.00 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 34.00 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 33.00 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 55.00 |
Migration-related public spending only — Official Development Assistance received and provided (which, for donor countries, includes in-donor refugee costs), in US dollars, stacked so the top line reads as the combined total for each year.
| Year | Amount (USD) | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $691,091,125 | ODA received |
| 2022 | $667,487,366 | ODA received |
| 2021 | $1,186,668,457 | ODA received |
| 2020 | $1,057,487,183 | ODA received |
| 2019 | $650,619,629 | ODA received |
| 2018 | $790,353,638 | ODA received |
| 2017 | $532,627,808 | ODA received |
| 2016 | $531,579,224 | ODA received |
| 2015 | $591,394,836 | ODA received |
| 2014 | $581,906,372 | ODA received |
| 2013 | $657,444,641 | ODA received |
| 2012 | $670,272,705 | ODA received |
| 2011 | $616,479,126 | ODA received |
| 2010 | $507,750,000 | ODA received |
| 2009 | $405,411,316 | ODA received |
| 2008 | $306,424,194 | ODA received |
| 2007 | $328,660,217 | ODA received |
| 2006 | $273,687,347 | ODA received |
| 2005 | $268,392,334 | ODA received |
| 2004 | $262,149,994 | ODA received |
| 2003 | $222,839,401 | ODA received |
| 2002 | $203,600,006 | ODA received |
| 2001 | $205,950,668 | ODA received |
| 2000 | $274,980,652 | ODA received |
| 1999 | $212,410,660 | ODA received |
| 1998 | $358,795,197 | ODA received |
| 1997 | $338,695,190 | ODA received |
| 1996 | $379,215,210 | ODA received |
| 1995 | $358,320,007 | ODA received |
| 1994 | $298,750,000 | ODA received |
| 1993 | $282,890,015 | ODA received |
| 1992 | $433,239,990 | ODA received |
| 1991 | $344,369,995 | ODA received |
| 1990 | $370,200,012 | ODA received |
| 1989 | $326,079,987 | ODA received |
| 1988 | $364,170,013 | ODA received |
| 1987 | $312,230,011 | ODA received |
| 1986 | $256,410,004 | ODA received |
| 1985 | $252,710,007 | ODA received |
| 1984 | $315,649,994 | ODA received |
| 1983 | $323,859,985 | ODA received |
| 1982 | $306,100,006 | ODA received |
| 1981 | $319,450,012 | ODA received |
| 1980 | $318,160,004 | ODA received |
| 1979 | $281,510,010 | ODA received |
| 1978 | $291,070,007 | ODA received |
| 1977 | $251,369,995 | ODA received |
| 1976 | $236,360,001 | ODA received |
| 1975 | $304,480,011 | ODA received |
| 1974 | $262,839,996 | ODA received |
| 1973 | $194,979,996 | ODA received |
| 1972 | $193,960,007 | ODA received |
| 1971 | $144,559,998 | ODA received |
| 1970 | $147,660,004 | ODA received |
| 1969 | $118,889,999 | ODA received |
| 1968 | $110,220,001 | ODA received |
| 1967 | $98,260,002 | ODA received |
| 1966 | $85,589,996 | ODA received |
| 1965 | $82,559,998 | ODA received |
| 1963 | $10,000 | ODA received |
| 1961 | $10,000 | ODA received |
| 1960 | $10,000 | ODA received |
Figures are consolidated from the UNHCR Refugee Data Finder and the World Bank / UNODC. Only reported values are shown — blanks mean a source did not publish a figure, never a fabricated estimate. Statistics describe recorded populations and movements and should not be read as causal relationships.