Australia
Australia in numbers
37 measures of Australia from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending1.92% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$35.3B in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,316 in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel60,000 people in 2020
- National power0.6% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.44% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports826 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports108 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Australia with…
- Australia vs India
- Australia vs China
- Australia vs United States
- Australia vs Indonesia
- Australia vs Pakistan
- Australia vs Nigeria
- Australia vs Brazil
- Australia vs Bangladesh
- Australia vs Russia
- Australia vs Ethiopia
- Australia vs Mexico
- Australia vs Japan
- Australia vs Egypt
- Australia vs Philippines
- Australia vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Australia vs Vietnam
- Australia vs Iran
- Australia vs Türkiye
- Australia vs Germany
- Australia vs Thailand
- Australia vs Tanzania
- Australia vs United Kingdom
- Australia vs France
- Australia vs South Africa
- Australia vs Italy
- Australia vs Kenya
- Australia vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Australia vs Colombia
- Australia vs South Korea
- Australia vs Sudan
- Australia vs Spain
- Australia vs Argentina
- Australia vs Canada
- Australia vs Saudi Arabia
- Australia vs Poland
- Australia vs Malaysia
- Australia vs North Korea
- Australia vs Netherlands
- Australia vs Cambodia
- Australia vs Belgium
- Australia vs United Arab Emirates
- Australia vs Papua New Guinea
- Australia vs Sweden
- Australia vs Israel
- Australia vs Austria
- Australia vs Switzerland
- Australia vs Singapore
- Australia vs Ireland
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, IHME, World Bank, IMF, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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