Country comparison Australia : United States

General information

	Australia	United States
Region:	Australia/New Zealand	North America
Area:	7,741,220 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	English	English
Government form:	Parliamentary democracy (under constitutional monarchy)	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1901 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Canberra	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Australia	United States
Population:	25,693,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.3	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 37.5 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	11.50 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	6.30 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	7.49 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Australia	United States
Political stability:	86	63
Civil rights:	92	81
Health:	87	71
Climate:	90	66
Cost of Living:	23	38
Popularity:	41	67

Economy

	Australia	United States
Currency:	Australian Dollar (1 AUD = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.1 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	2.86 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	117.76 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.40 %	36.60 %
Average income:	53,680 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	73 (good)	67 (moderate)

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,327,836 M US$	51.68 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	1,379,110 M US$	53.68 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	300,764 M US$	11.71 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	249,850 M US$	9.72 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	873,573 km	34.00 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Railways:	33,343 km	1.30 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	2,000 km	0.08 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	581	0.023	3,627	0.011
Airports:	418	0.016	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	229.40 bn kWh	8.93 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	243.00 bn kWh	9.46 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	386.62 m t	15,047.52 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 t

Telecommunication

	Australia	United States
International dialing:	+61	+1
Internet domain:	.au	.us

	AUS total	AUS per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	6,200,000	241	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	27,454,000	1069	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	17,081,000	665	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	22,230,850	865	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	9,099,619	354	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Australia	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.84	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.59	2.59
Diabetes:	5.6 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.06 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	86.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	13.6 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Australia and United States

	Australia	United States
Daytime temperatures:	24.4 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	12.6 °C	7.1 °C
Water temperature:	26.3 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	64 %	67 %
Rain days:	5.9	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.0	7.2

Native languages

	Australia	United States
English:	76.8 %	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Chinese:	2.8 %	0.9 %
Italian:	1.4 %	0.6 %
Arabic:	1.3 %	n/a
Greek:	1.1 %	n/a
Vietnamese:	1.1 %	0.2 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	15.5 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Australia	United States
Christianity:	62.1 %	78.5 %
Nondenominational:	22.3 %	n/a
Buddhism:	2.5 %	0.7 %
Islam:	2.2 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	0.5 %	1.8 %
Sikhism:	0.5 %	1.6 %
Hinduism:	1.3 %	1.0 %
other:	8.6 %	15.3 %