Country comparison Australia : India

General information

	Australia	India
Region:	Australia/New Zealand	South Asia
Area:	7,741,220 km²	3,287,259 km²
Official language:	English	Hindi
Government form:	Parliamentary democracy (under constitutional monarchy)	Federal parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1901 AD	1947 AD
Capital:	Canberra	New Delhi

Population

	Australia	India
Population:	25,693,000	1,380,004,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.3	419.8
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 69 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 71 years
Average age:	Ø 37.5 years	Ø 28.7 years
Birthrate:	11.50 ‰	17.44 ‰
Deathrate:	6.30 ‰	7.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	7.49 ‰	-0.04 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Australia	India
Political stability:	86	45
Civil rights:	92	46
Health:	87	35
Climate:	90	67
Cost of Living:	23	44
Popularity:	41	58

Economy

	Australia	India
Currency:	Australian Dollar (1 AUD = 100 Cents)	Indian Rupee (1 INR =100 Paise)
Unemployment rate:	5.1 %	6.0 %
Inflation rate:	2.86 %	6.62 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	117.76 %	28.67 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.40 %	49.70 %
Average income:	53,680 US$	1,920 US$
Corruption index:	73 (good)	40 (bad)

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	IND: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,327,836 M US$	51.68 M US$	2,660,245 M US$	1.93 M US$
Gross national product:	1,379,110 M US$	53.68 M US$	2,651,666 M US$	1.92 M US$
Exported goods:	300,764 M US$	11.71 M US$	484,691 M US$	0.35 M US$
Imported goods:	249,850 M US$	9.72 M US$	493,033 M US$	0.36 M US$

Infrastructure

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	IND: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	873,573 km	34.00 km	4,699,024 km	3.41 km
Railways:	33,343 km	1.30 km	68,155 km	0.05 km
Waterways:	2,000 km	0.08 km	14,500 km	0.01 km
Harbours:	581	0.023	1,801	0.001
Airports:	418	0.016	346	0.000

Energy balance

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	IND: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	229.40 bn kWh	8.93 m kWh	1,137.00 bn kWh	823,910.43 kWh
Energy production:	243.00 bn kWh	9.46 m kWh	1,386.00 bn kWh	1.00 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	5.15 bn kWh	3,731.87 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	5.62 bn kWh	4,070.28 kWh
CO2 emissions:	386.62 m t	15,047.52 t	2.43 bn t	1,764.14 t

Telecommunication

	Australia	India
International dialing:	+61	+91
Internet domain:	.au	.in

	AUS total	AUS per 1000 inh.	IND total	IND per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	6,200,000	241	20,052,162	15
Mobile cellulars:	27,454,000	1069	1,153,709,832	836
Internet server:	17,081,000	665	6,746,000	5
Internet users:	22,230,850	865	565,801,798	410
Broadband Internet:	9,099,619	354	22,950,000	17

Healthcare system

	Australia	India
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.84	0.53
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.59	0.78
Diabetes:	5.6 %	10.4 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	1.9 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	86.0 %	84.0 %
Smokers:	13.6 %	27.2 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Australia and India

	Australia	India
Daytime temperatures:	24.4 °C	30.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	12.6 °C	19.8 °C
Water temperature:	26.3 °C	27.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	64 %	66 %
Rain days:	5.9	7.4
Sunshine hours per day:	8.0	6.4

Native languages

	Australia	India
English:	76.8 %	n/a
Hindi:	n/a	41.0 %
Bengali:	n/a	8.1 %
Telugu:	n/a	7.2 %
Marathi:	n/a	7.0 %
Tamil:	n/a	5.9 %
Urdu:	n/a	5.0 %
Gujarati:	n/a	4.5 %
Kannada:	n/a	3.7 %
Oriya:	n/a	3.2 %
Malayalam:	n/a	3.2 %
Punjabi:	n/a	2.8 %
Chinese:	2.8 %	n/a
Italian:	1.4 %	n/a
Arabic:	1.3 %	n/a
Assamese:	n/a	1.3 %
Maithili:	n/a	1.2 %
Greek:	1.1 %	n/a
Vietnamese:	1.1 %	n/a
other:	15.5 %	5.9 %

Religions

	Australia	India
Hinduism:	1.3 %	79.8 %
Christianity:	62.1 %	2.3 %
Nondenominational:	22.3 %	n/a
Islam:	2.2 %	13.0 %
Buddhism:	2.5 %	0.7 %
Sikhism:	0.5 %	1.7 %
Jewry:	0.5 %	n/a
Jainism:	n/a	0.4 %
Bahaism:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	8.6 %	1.9 %