Country comparison: Australia / Colombia

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

General information

	Australia	Colombia
Region:	Australia/New Zealand	South America
Area:	7,741,220 km²	1,141,749 km²
Official language:	English	Spanish
Government form:	Parliamentary democracy (under constitutional monarchy)	Presidential republic
Independent since:	1901 AD	1810 AD
Capital:	Canberra	Bogota

Population

Details for Australia and Colombia

	Australia	Colombia
Population:	25,688,000	51,517,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.3	45.1
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 69 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 76 years
Average age:	Ø 37.5 years	Ø 31.2 years
Birth rate:	12.10 ‰	14.20 ‰
Death rate:	6.70 ‰	7.74 ‰
Migrationrate:	6.39 ‰	-1.85 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Australia	Colombia
Political stability:	86	43
Civil rights:	95	44
Health:	87	54
Climate:	90	55
Cost of Living:	24	45
Popularity:	41	27

Economy

Details for Australia and Colombia

	Australia	Colombia
Currency:	Australian dollar (1 AUD = 100 Cents)	Colombian peso (1 COP =100 Centavos)
Unemployment rate:	3.7 %	10.7 %
Inflation rate:	6.59 %	10.18 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	109.02 %	37.36 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.40 %	71.20 %
Average income:	57,170 US$	6,190 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	58.38 %	64.60 %
Government debt (% of GDP):	43.95 %	51.23 %
Corruption index:	25 (good)	61 (bad)

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	COL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,552,667 M US$	60.44 M US$	314,464 M US$	6.10 M US$
Gross national product:	1,468,490 M US$	57.17 M US$	318,932 M US$	6.19 M US$
Exported goods:	390,014 M US$	15.18 M US$	72,497 M US$	1.41 M US$
Imported goods:	299,207 M US$	11.65 M US$	89,076 M US$	1.73 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Australia and Colombia

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	COL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	873,573 km	34.01 km	205,379 km	3.99 km
Railways:	33,343 km	1.30 km	2,141 km	0.04 km
Waterways:	2,000 km	0.08 km	24,725 km	0.48 km
Harbours:	581	0.0226	122	0.0024
Passenger airports:	157	0.0061	51	0.0010

Energy balance

Details for Australia and Colombia

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	COL: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	722.85 bn kWh	28.14 m kWh	173.18 bn kWh	3.36 m kWh
Energy consumption:	237.39 bn kWh	9.24 m kWh	69.86 bn kWh	1.36 m kWh
Energy production:	250.00 bn kWh	9.73 m kWh	74.53 bn kWh	1.45 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	251.00 m kWh	4,872.22 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	1.30 bn kWh	25,273.43 kWh
CO2 emissions:	386.53 m t	15,046.93 t	81.04 m t	1,573.07 t

Telecommunication

Details for Australia and Colombia

	Australia	Colombia
International dialing:	+61	+57
Internet domain:	.au	.co

	AUS total	AUS per 1000 inh.	COL total	COL per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	4,600,000	179	7,567,395	147
Mobile cellulars:	27,090,000	1055	75,056,111	1457
Internet server:	17,081,000	665	4,410,000	86
Internet users:	23,016,519	896	35,953,409	698
Broadband Internet:	9,145,384	356	8,434,168	164

Healthcare system

Details for Australia and Colombia

	Australia	Colombia
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	3.84	1.71
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.59	2.08
Diabetes:	5.6 %	7.4 %
HIV:	0.04 %	0.30 %
Tuberculosis:	0.07 ‰	0.41 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	90.0 %	71.0 %
Smokers:	13.6 %	8.5 %

Climate

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

	Australia	Colombia
Daytime temperatures:	24.3 °C	30.3 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	12.6 °C	22.0 °C
Water temperature:	26.3 °C	27.1 °C
Rel. humidity:	64 %	76 %
Rain days:	5.9	12.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.9	5.4

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Colombia
Australia

Native languages

	Australia	Colombia
Spanish:	n/a	99.0 %
English:	76.8 %	n/a
Chinese:	2.8 %	n/a
Italian:	1.4 %	n/a
Arabic:	1.3 %	n/a
Vietnamese:	1.1 %	n/a
Greek:	1.1 %	n/a
Chibcha:	n/a	0.4 %
Quechua:	n/a	0.1 %
Arawakan:	n/a	0.1 %
Creole-English:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	15.5 %	0.3 %

Religions

	Australia	Colombia
Christianity:	62.1 %	90.0 %
Nondenominational:	22.3 %	n/a
Buddhism:	2.5 %	n/a
Islam:	2.2 %	n/a
Hinduism:	1.3 %	n/a
Sikhism:	0.5 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.5 %	n/a
other:	8.6 %	10.0 %

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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