Country comparison: Australia / United Kingdom

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

General information

	Australia	United Kingdom
Region:	Australia/New Zealand	Northern Europe
Area:	7,741,220 km²	243,610 km²
Official language:	English	English
Government form:	Parliamentary democracy (under constitutional monarchy)	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	1901 AD	1066 AD
Capital:	Canberra	London

Population

Details for Australia and the United Kingdom

	Australia	United Kingdom
Population:	25,688,000	67,327,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.3	276.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 79 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 83 years
Average age:	Ø 37.5 years	Ø 40.6 years
Birth rate:	12.10 ‰	10.10 ‰
Death rate:	6.70 ‰	9.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	6.39 ‰	3.23 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Australia	United Kingdom
Political stability:	86	74
Civil rights:	95	90
Health:	87	77
Climate:	90	6
Cost of Living:	24	34
Popularity:	41	43

Economy

Details for Australia and the United Kingdom

	Australia	United Kingdom
Currency:	Australian dollar (1 AUD = 100 Cents)	Sterling pound (1 GBP =100 Pence)
Unemployment rate:	3.7 %	3.6 %
Inflation rate:	6.59 %	7.92 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	109.02 %	95.54 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.40 %	30.60 %
Average income:	57,170 US$	44,480 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	58.38 %	103.79 %
Government debt (% of GDP):	43.95 %	102.97 %
Corruption index:	25 (good)	27 (good)

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	GBR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,552,667 M US$	60.44 M US$	3,131,378 M US$	46.51 M US$
Gross national product:	1,468,490 M US$	57.17 M US$	2,994,732 M US$	44.48 M US$
Exported goods:	390,014 M US$	15.18 M US$	899,171 M US$	13.36 M US$
Imported goods:	299,207 M US$	11.65 M US$	937,734 M US$	13.93 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Australia and the United Kingdom

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	GBR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	873,573 km	34.01 km	394,428 km	5.86 km
Railways:	33,343 km	1.30 km	16,837 km	0.25 km
Waterways:	2,000 km	0.08 km	3,200 km	0.05 km
Harbours:	581	0.0226	1,249	0.0186
Passenger airports:	157	0.0061	59	0.0009

Energy balance

Details for Australia and the United Kingdom

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	GBR: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	722.85 bn kWh	28.14 m kWh	991.22 bn kWh	14.72 m kWh
Energy consumption:	237.39 bn kWh	9.24 m kWh	289.69 bn kWh	4.30 m kWh
Energy production:	250.00 bn kWh	9.73 m kWh	299.52 bn kWh	4.45 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	4.48 bn kWh	66,556.19 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	22.39 bn kWh	332,573.01 kWh
CO2 emissions:	386.53 m t	15,046.93 t	348.92 m t	5,182.53 t

Telecommunication

Details for Australia and the United Kingdom

	Australia	United Kingdom
International dialing:	+61	+44
Internet domain:	.au	.uk

	AUS total	AUS per 1000 inh.	GBR total	GBR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	4,600,000	179	32,192,000	478
Mobile cellulars:	27,090,000	1055	79,773,000	1185
Internet server:	17,081,000	665	8,107,000	120
Internet users:	23,016,519	896	63,837,842	948
Broadband Internet:	9,145,384	356	27,738,724	412

Healthcare system

Details for Australia and the United Kingdom

	Australia	United Kingdom
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	3.84	2.46
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.59	2.81
Diabetes:	5.6 %	3.9 %
Tuberculosis:	0.07 ‰	0.06 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	90.0 %	78.0 %
Smokers:	13.6 %	15.4 %

Climate

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

	Australia	United Kingdom
Daytime temperatures:	24.3 °C	12.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	12.6 °C	7.0 °C
Water temperature:	26.3 °C	10.1 °C
Rel. humidity:	64 %	85 %
Rain days:	5.9	13.0
Sunshine hours per day:	7.9	3.8

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
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Native languages

	Australia	United Kingdom
English:	76.8 %	97.3 %
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
Kymri:	n/a	0.9 %
Gaelic:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	15.5 %	1.7 %

Religions

	Australia	United Kingdom
State religion:	none	England: Church of England (Anglican), Scotland: Church of Scotland (Calvinist)
Christianity:	62.1 %	67.0 %
Nondenominational:	22.3 %	25.7 %
Islam:	2.2 %	4.4 %
Buddhism:	2.5 %	n/a
Hinduism:	1.3 %	1.3 %
Sikhism:	0.5 %	0.4 %
Jewry:	0.5 %	0.4 %
other:	8.6 %	0.8 %

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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