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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Canberra	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Australia	United States
Population:	25,364,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.3	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 37.2 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	12.60 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	6.30 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	7.49 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Australia	United States
Political stability:	91	72
Civil rights:	95	83
Health:	87	74
Climate:	91	64
Cost of Living:	28	38
Popularity:	56	86

Economy

	Australia	United States
Currency:	Australian Dollar (1 AUD = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	6.6 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	1.61 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	117.80 %	110.20 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.40 %	36.60 %
Average income:	55,100 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	77 (good)	69 (moderate)

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,396,567 M US$	55.06 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	1,397,555 M US$	55.10 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	342,360 M US$	13.50 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	295,556 M US$	11.65 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	AUS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	873,573 km	34.44 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	33,343 km	1.31 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	2,000 km	0.08 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	579	0.023	3,673	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	9.04 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	243.00 bn kWh	9.58 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	375.91 m t	14,820.35 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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:	7,820,000	308	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	27,880,000	1099	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	17,081,000	673	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	21,951,539	865	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Australia	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.80	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.59	2.59
Diabetes:	5.6 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.06 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	79.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	16.2 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Australia and United States

	Australia	United States
Daytime temperatures:	24.4 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	12.8 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	26.3 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	67 %	67 %
Rain days:	6.0	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.9	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 %
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 %