Country comparison: Australia / New Zealand

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

General information

	Australia	New Zealand
Region:	Australia/New Zealand	Australia/New Zealand
Area:	7,741,220 km²	267,710 km²
National language:	English	English
Government form:	Parliamentary democracy (under constitutional monarchy)	Parliamentary democracy (under constitutional monarchy)
Independent since:	1901 AD	1907 AD
Capital:	Canberra	Wellington

Population

Details for Australia and New Zealand

	Australia	New Zealand
Population:	25,688,000	5,123,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.3	19.1
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 80 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 37.5 years	Ø 37.2 years
Birth rate:	11.50 ‰	11.32 ‰
Death rate:	6.30 ‰	6.41 ‰
Migrationrate:	6.93 ‰	5.83 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Australia	New Zealand
Political stability:	87	90
Civil rights:	95	100
Health:	87	81
Climate:	90	36
Cost of Living:	24	26
Popularity:	42	37

Economy

Details for Australia and New Zealand

	Australia	New Zealand
Currency:	Australian dollar (1 AUD = 100 Cents)	New Zealand dollar (1 NZD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.1 %	3.8 %
Inflation rate:	2.86 %	3.94 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	118.01 %	117.20 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.40 %	34.60 %
Average income:	57,170 US$	45,230 US$
Corruption index:	25 (good)	13 (good)

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	NZL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,552,667 M US$	60.44 M US$	249,886 M US$	48.78 M US$
Gross national product:	1,468,490 M US$	57.17 M US$	231,717 M US$	45.23 M US$
Exported goods:	389,794 M US$	15.17 M US$	54,777 M US$	10.69 M US$
Imported goods:	298,712 M US$	11.63 M US$	62,862 M US$	12.27 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Australia and New Zealand

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	NZL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	873,573 km	34.01 km	94,000 km	18.35 km
Railways:	33,343 km	1.30 km	4,128 km	0.81 km
Harbours:	581	0.0226	115	0.0224
Passenger airports:	157	0.0061	28	0.0055

Energy balance

Details for Australia and New Zealand

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	NZL: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	229.40 bn kWh	8.93 m kWh	39.50 bn kWh	7.71 m kWh
Energy production:	243.00 bn kWh	9.46 m kWh	42.53 bn kWh	8.30 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	386.53 m t	15,047.06 t	34.01 m t	6,639.21 t

Telecommunication

Details for Australia and New Zealand

	Australia	New Zealand
International dialing:	+61	+64
Internet domain:	.au	.nz

	AUS total	AUS per 1000 inh.	NZL total	NZL per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	4,600,000	179	651,000	127
Mobile cellulars:	27,090,000	1055	5,846,000	1141
Internet server:	17,081,000	665	3,026,000	591
Internet users:	23,016,519	896	4,687,179	915
Broadband Internet:	9,082,537	354	1,801,118	352

Healthcare system

Details for Australia and New Zealand

	Australia	New Zealand
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	3.84	2.57
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.59	3.03
Diabetes:	5.6 %	6.2 %
HIV:	0.04 %	0.05 %
Tuberculosis:	0.07 ‰	0.07 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	90.0 %	89.0 %
Smokers:	13.6 %	13.7 %

Climate

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

	Australia	New Zealand
Daytime temperatures:	24.3 °C	17.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	12.6 °C	9.0 °C
Rel. humidity:	64 %	82 %
Rain days:	5.9	10.6
Sunshine hours per day:	7.9	5.8

Native languages

	Australia	New Zealand
English:	76.8 %	72.6 %
Te Reo Māori:	n/a	3.5 %
Chinese:	2.8 %	2.2 %
Samoan:	n/a	2.0 %
Hindi:	n/a	1.6 %
Italian:	1.4 %	n/a
Arabic:	1.3 %	n/a
French:	n/a	1.2 %
Vietnamese:	1.1 %	n/a
Greek:	1.1 %	n/a
other:	15.5 %	16.9 %

Religions

	Australia	New Zealand
Christianity:	62.1 %	44.3 %
Nondenominational:	22.3 %	38.5 %
Buddhism:	2.5 %	1.4 %
Islam:	2.2 %	1.1 %
Hinduism:	1.3 %	2.1 %
Maori:	n/a	1.3 %
Sikhism:	0.5 %	0.8 %
Jewry:	0.5 %	n/a
other:	8.6 %	10.5 %

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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