Country comparison: Australia / Papua New Guinea

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

General information

	Australia	Papua New Guinea
Region:	Australia/New Zealand	Melanesia
Area:	7,741,220 km²	462,840 km²
Government form:	Parliamentary democracy (under constitutional monarchy)	Parliamentary democracy (under constitutional monarchy)
Independent since:	1901 AD	1975 AD
Capital:	Canberra	Port Moresby

Population

Details for Australia and Papua New Guinea

	Australia	Papua New Guinea
Population:	25,688,000	9,949,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.3	21.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 63 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 69 years
Average age:	Ø 37.5 years	Ø 24.0 years
Birth rate:	11.50 ‰	26.00 ‰
Death rate:	6.30 ‰	6.40 ‰
Migrationrate:	6.93 ‰	0.00 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Australia	Papua New Guinea
Political stability:	87	49
Civil rights:	94	32
Health:	87	19
Climate:	90	43
Cost of Living:	24	32
Popularity:	42	14

Economy

Details for Australia and Papua New Guinea

	Australia	Papua New Guinea
Currency:	Australian dollar (1 AUD = 100 Cents)	kina (1 PGK =100 Toea)
Unemployment rate:	5.1 %	2.8 %
Inflation rate:	2.86 %	4.48 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	118.01 %	82.27 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.40 %	37.10 %
Average income:	57,170 US$	2,460 US$
Corruption index:	27 (good)	69 (bad)

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	PNG: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,552,667 M US$	60.44 M US$	26,594 M US$	2.67 M US$
Gross national product:	1,468,490 M US$	57.17 M US$	24,523 M US$	2.46 M US$
Exported goods:	389,794 M US$	15.17 M US$	10,597 M US$	1.07 M US$
Imported goods:	298,712 M US$	11.63 M US$	4,844 M US$	0.49 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Australia and Papua New Guinea

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	PNG: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	873,573 km	34.01 km	9,349 km	0.94 km
Waterways:	2,000 km	0.08 km	11,000 km	1.11 km
Harbours:	581	0.0226	177	0.0178
Passenger airports:	157	0.0061	50	0.0050

Energy balance

Details for Australia and Papua New Guinea

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	PNG: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	229.40 bn kWh	8.93 m kWh	3.24 bn kWh	325,345.04 kWh
Energy production:	243.00 bn kWh	9.46 m kWh	3.48 bn kWh	349,869.04 kWh
CO2 emissions:	386.53 m t	15,047.06 t	7.58 m t	761.85 t

Telecommunication

Details for Australia and Papua New Guinea

	Australia	Papua New Guinea
International dialing:	+61	+675
Internet domain:	.au	.pg

	AUS total	AUS per 1000 inh.	PNG total	PNG per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	6,200,000	241	166,000	17
Mobile cellulars:	27,453,000	1069	4,818,000	484
Internet server:	17,081,000	665	5,006	1
Internet users:	23,062,373	898	1,022,168	103
Broadband Internet:	9,082,537	354	21,000	2

Healthcare system

Details for Australia and Papua New Guinea

	Australia	Papua New Guinea
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	3.84	4.02
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.59	0.05
Diabetes:	5.6 %	17.9 %
HIV:	0.04 %	0.64 %
Tuberculosis:	0.07 ‰	4.24 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	90.0 %	74.0 %
Smokers:	13.6 %	39.3 %

Climate

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

	Australia	Papua New Guinea
Daytime temperatures:	24.3 °C	31.2 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	12.6 °C	23.9 °C
Water temperature:	26.3 °C	27.9 °C
Rel. humidity:	64 %	82 %
Rain days:	5.9	14.6
Sunshine hours per day:	7.9	5.6

Native languages

	Australia	Papua New Guinea
Papuan languages:	n/a	78.1 %
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
other:	15.5 %	21.9 %

Religions

	Australia	Papua New Guinea
Christianity:	62.1 %	96.4 %
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
Bahaism:	n/a	0.3 %
other:	8.6 %	3.3 %

Data inventory and updates

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