Country comparison: Australia / France

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

General information

	Australia	France
Region:	Australia/New Zealand	Western Europe
Area:	7,741,220 km²	549,087 km²
National language:	English	French
Government form:	Parliamentary democracy (under constitutional monarchy)	Semi-presidential republic
Independent since:	1901 AD	843 AD
Capital:	Canberra	Paris

Population

Details for Australia and France

	Australia	France
Population:	25,688,000	67,750,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.3	123.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 79 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 37.5 years	Ø 41.7 years
Birth rate:	11.50 ‰	10.90 ‰
Death rate:	6.30 ‰	9.90 ‰
Migrationrate:	6.93 ‰	1.06 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Australia	France
Political stability:	87	74
Civil rights:	95	85
Health:	87	92
Climate:	90	41
Cost of Living:	24	30
Popularity:	42	71

Economy

Details for Australia and France

	Australia	France
Currency:	Australian dollar (1 AUD = 100 Cents)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	5.1 %	7.9 %
Inflation rate:	2.86 %	1.64 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	118.01 %	96.23 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.40 %	60.70 %
Average income:	57,170 US$	44,160 US$
Corruption index:	25 (good)	28 (good)

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,552,667 M US$	60.44 M US$	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$
Gross national product:	1,468,490 M US$	57.17 M US$	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$
Exported goods:	389,794 M US$	15.17 M US$	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$
Imported goods:	298,712 M US$	11.63 M US$	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Australia and France

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	873,573 km	34.01 km	1,053,215 km	15.55 km
Railways:	33,343 km	1.30 km	29,640 km	0.44 km
Harbours:	581	0.0226	548	0.0081
Passenger airports:	157	0.0061	61	0.0009

Energy balance

Details for Australia and France

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	229.40 bn kWh	8.93 m kWh	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh
Energy production:	243.00 bn kWh	9.46 m kWh	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	386.53 m t	15,047.06 t	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t

Telecommunication

Details for Australia and France

	Australia	France
International dialing:	+61	+33
Internet domain:	.au	.fr

	AUS total	AUS per 1000 inh.	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	4,600,000	179	37,759,000	557
Mobile cellulars:	27,090,000	1055	72,751,000	1074
Internet server:	17,081,000	665	17,266,000	255
Internet users:	23,016,519	896	58,329,375	861
Broadband Internet:	9,082,537	354	30,627,000	452

Healthcare system

Details for Australia and France

	Australia	France
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	3.84	5.91
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.59	3.23
Diabetes:	5.6 %	4.8 %
HIV:	0.04 %	0.17 %
Tuberculosis:	0.07 ‰	0.08 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	90.0 %	37.0 %
Smokers:	13.6 %	33.4 %

Climate

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

	Australia	France
Daytime temperatures:	24.3 °C	16.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	12.6 °C	7.9 °C
Water temperature:	26.3 °C	15.4 °C
Rel. humidity:	64 %	78 %
Rain days:	5.9	8.9
Sunshine hours per day:	7.9	5.5

Native languages

	Australia	France
French:	n/a	93.6 %
English:	76.8 %	n/a
Chinese:	2.8 %	n/a
Arabic:	1.3 %	2.5 %
Italian:	1.4 %	0.4 %
Portuguese:	n/a	1.2 %
Vietnamese:	1.1 %	n/a
Greek:	1.1 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	0.4 %
Turkish:	n/a	0.4 %
other:	15.5 %	1.5 %

Religions

	Australia	France
Christianity:	62.1 %	64.0 %
Nondenominational:	22.3 %	24.0 %
Islam:	2.2 %	8.0 %
Buddhism:	2.5 %	0.6 %
Hinduism:	1.3 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.5 %	0.7 %
Sikhism:	0.5 %	n/a
other:	8.6 %	2.7 %

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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