Country comparison: Australia / China

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Australia and China. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Australia	China
Region:	Australia/New Zealand	East Asia
Area:	7,741,220 km²	9,562,910 km²
National language:	English	Chinese
Government form:	Parliamentary democracy (under constitutional monarchy)	People's republic (communist one-party system)
Independent since:	1901 AD	1523 BC
Capital:	Canberra	Beijing

Population

Details for Australia and China

	Australia	China
Population:	25,688,000	1,412,360,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.3	147.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 37.5 years	Ø 38.4 years
Birth rate:	11.50 ‰	8.52 ‰
Death rate:	6.30 ‰	7.07 ‰
Migrationrate:	6.93 ‰	-0.11 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Australia	China
Political stability:	87	69
Civil rights:	95	37
Health:	87	69
Climate:	90	54
Cost of Living:	24	38
Popularity:	42	73

Economy

Details for Australia and China

	Australia	China
Currency:	Australian dollar (1 AUD = 100 Cents)	Renminbi yuan (1 CNY =100 Fen)
Unemployment rate:	5.1 %	4.6 %
Inflation rate:	2.86 %	0.98 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	118.01 %	63.16 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.40 %	59.20 %
Average income:	57,170 US$	11,880 US$
Corruption index:	25 (good)	55 (bad)

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,552,667 M US$	60.44 M US$	17,734,063 M US$	12.56 M US$
Gross national product:	1,468,490 M US$	57.17 M US$	16,785,119 M US$	11.88 M US$
Exported goods:	389,794 M US$	15.17 M US$	3,554,296 M US$	2.52 M US$
Imported goods:	298,712 M US$	11.63 M US$	3,091,488 M US$	2.19 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Australia and China

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	873,573 km	34.01 km	5,200,000 km	3.68 km
Railways:	33,343 km	1.30 km	68,141 km	0.05 km
Waterways:	2,000 km	0.08 km	110,000 km	0.08 km
Harbours:	581	0.0226	6,662	0.0047
Passenger airports:	157	0.0061	214	0.0002

Energy balance

Details for Australia and China

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	229.40 bn kWh	8.93 m kWh	5.564 tn kWh	3.94 m kWh
Energy production:	243.00 bn kWh	9.46 m kWh	5.883 tn kWh	4.17 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	18.91 bn kWh	13,388.94 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	6.19 bn kWh	4,379.20 kWh
CO2 emissions:	386.53 m t	15,047.06 t	10.71 bn t	7,581.08 t

Telecommunication

Details for Australia and China

	Australia	China
International dialing:	+61	+86
Internet domain:	.au	.cn

	AUS total	AUS per 1000 inh.	CHN total	CHN per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	4,600,000	179	180,700,500	128
Mobile cellulars:	27,090,000	1055	1,732,661,400	1227
Internet server:	17,081,000	665	20,602,000	15
Internet users:	23,016,519	896	1,031,774,760	731
Broadband Internet:	9,082,537	354	535,786,000	379

Healthcare system

Details for Australia and China

	Australia	China
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	3.84	4.31
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.59	1.79
Diabetes:	5.6 %	9.2 %
Tuberculosis:	0.07 ‰	0.55 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	90.0 %	95.0 %
Smokers:	13.6 %	25.6 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Australia and China

	Australia	China
Daytime temperatures:	24.3 °C	19.2 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	12.6 °C	9.4 °C
Water temperature:	26.3 °C	17.9 °C
Rel. humidity:	64 %	69 %
Rain days:	5.9	6.4
Sunshine hours per day:	7.9	5.9

Native languages

	Australia	China
Chinese:	2.8 %	92.0 %
English:	76.8 %	n/a
Hakka:	n/a	1.8 %
Zhuang:	n/a	1.4 %
Italian:	1.4 %	n/a
Arabic:	1.3 %	n/a
Greek:	1.1 %	n/a
Vietnamese:	1.1 %	n/a
Mantšu:	n/a	0.9 %
Hui:	n/a	0.8 %
Uighur:	n/a	0.6 %
Yi:	n/a	0.6 %
Tujia:	n/a	0.5 %
Mongolian:	n/a	0.4 %
Tibetan:	n/a	0.4 %
Dong:	n/a	0.2 %
Puyi:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	15.5 %	0.2 %

Religions

	Australia	China
Christianity:	62.1 %	2.3 %
Nondenominational:	22.3 %	58.5 %
Local chinese beliefs:	n/a	17.5 %
Buddhism:	2.5 %	6.2 %
Taoism:	n/a	4.4 %
Islam:	2.2 %	1.7 %
Hinduism:	1.3 %	0.1 %
Sikhism:	0.5 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.5 %	n/a
other:	8.6 %	9.3 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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