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Australia

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Australia is a country. The capital city is Canberra, located in the Australia and New Zealand region of Oceania. It has a land area of 7,692,020 km², a population of 26,658,948 people and uses the currency Australian dollar. The Prime Minister is Anthony Albanese.

Key facts

currency: Australian dollar
capital city: Canberra
region: Australia and New Zealand
continent: Oceania
land area: 7,692,020 km²
population: 26,658,948 people
political leader: Anthony Albanese (Prime Minister)

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central government debt: 58.05 % of GDP
expense: 27.66 % of GDP
GDP: 1,728,057,316,695.61 current US$
inflation: 5.60 annual %
self-employed workers: 13.06 % of total employment
tax revenue: 23.63 % of GDP
unemployment: 3.67 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 8.35 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 60,000 people
democracy score: 9.09
democracy type: Full democracy
individuals using the Internet: 97.10 % of population
military expenditure: 1.92 % of GDP
net migration: 140,232 people
press freedom: 4.73
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 38.41 %
birth rate: 11.60 per 1,000 people
death rate: 7.30 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 7,055.37 current US$
health expenditure: 10.54 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.01 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 3.84 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 83
suicide mortality rate: 12.50 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 3,635,190.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 2.15 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 373.62 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 62.87 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 20.80 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 5.30 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 2.70 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 8.34 % of total
net energy imports: -190.19 % of energy use
fertility rate: 1.63 births per woman
forest area: 1,340,051 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 89.63 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 571.84 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 33.80
methane emissions: 139.33 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 47.44 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 13,432,181 people
male population: 13,226,767 people
renewable energy consumption: 12.30 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 7,650,418.08 km²
rural population: 3,567,767 people
urban land area: 11,945.99 km²
urban population: 23,091,181 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 2.71 % of total population

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Location on a map: -27°0′S, 133°0′E

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Australia is one of the countries in Oceania, countries in Australia and New Zealand and 194 countries in our database.

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