Australia covers approximately 5% of the world's total land area. When considering the entire surface of the Earth (which is mostly water), Australia makes up about 1.5% of the total area.
Meanwhile, the other nations that surpass the 1% mark for surface area include the United States (1.87%), Brazil (1.67%), and Australia (1.51%). The remaining 195 countries and regions below 1%, combined, account for the other half of Earth's land surface.
Australia is the planet's sixth largest country after Russia, Canada, China, the USA, and Brazil. At 7 688 287km2, it accounts for just five percent of the world's land area of 149 450 000 km2, and is the smallest continental land mass. For more information visit About Australia.
The population of Australia represents 0.33 percent of the world´s total population which arguably means that one person in every 308 people on the planet is a resident of Australia.
Australia is the most successful multicultural society in the world, uniting a multitude of cultures, experiences, beliefs, and traditions. We owe our accomplishments as a nation to the contributions of more than 300 different ancestries-from the First Australians to the newest arrivals.
No, Australia is not 90% white; while a large majority identify with European ancestry (around 76-80% in recent years), a significant and growing portion identifies as Asian, African, Middle Eastern, or Indigenous, making it a highly multicultural nation with diverse ethnic backgrounds, not overwhelmingly white. Recent census data shows European ancestry (English, Irish, etc.) makes up a large chunk, but Asian ancestries are also substantial, with over 17% Asian population and around 3.8% identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, per the 2021 census data from Wikipedia.
The Census shows that Australia has a higher proportion of overseas-born people (26%) than the United States (14%), Canada (22%), New Zealand (23%) and the United Kingdom (13%). This makes Australia a hugely diverse nation. Dig a generation deeper and our diversity becomes even richer.
The Han Chinese are the world's largest single ethnic group, constituting over 19% of the global population in 2011. The world's most-spoken languages are English (1.132B), Mandarin Chinese (1.117B), Hindi (615M), Spanish (534M) and French (280M).
Australia currently stands as the second-wealthiest country in the world, with a median wealth per adult of US$268,000 (AU$413,000). In other words, half the population has more than this amount and half has less.
While exact real-time figures vary, recent analyses suggest hundreds of thousands of Australians hold over $1 million in superannuation, though it's a minority, with estimates from around 2021 pointing to over 400,000 people, a number that has grown significantly due to investment returns, though many still don't reach this milestone. About 2.5% of the population held >$1 million in super as of mid-2021 (around 417,000 people), with forecasts indicating a larger number, while projections suggest over 10% of women and 15% of men retiring by 2060 could reach this goal, and recent studies highlight that a large majority (around 94%) of retirees don't hit $1 million.
The $4,000 Centrelink payment isn't a direct cash payment but a one-time boost to the Work Bonus income bank for eligible pensioners (Age Pension, Disability Support Pension, Carer Payment) over Age Pension age, starting January 1, 2024, with an increased maximum balance of $11,800, allowing them to earn more without reducing their pension. You get this $4,000 starting credit automatically if you're a new claimant or haven't received a previous $4,000 boost, effectively giving you a $4,000 buffer to earn income before Centrelink reduces your pension.
The resources sector has once again emerged as Australia's biggest taxpayer, with the ATO Corporate Tax Transparency Report revealing major mining and energy firms contributed $48 billion in company tax in 2023-24.
More than 70% of our planet is ocean – and 90% of that ocean is deep sea.
Census population count by state and territory
Excludes overseas visitors and Other Territories. The 2021 Census tells us about where we live: Almost 80 per cent of Australian residents live in eastern Australia in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory.
Australia's land area: Approximately 7.7 million square kilometers (7,692,024 km²). Now, divide Russia's area by Australia's: 17,125,200 ÷ 7,692,024 ≈ 2.23 So, Australia fits into Russia approximately 2.2 times when considering land area.
More than 80% of our plants, mammals, reptiles and frogs are unique to Australia and are found nowhere else in the world. Some of our Australian animals are very well known like kangaroos, dingos, wallabies and wombats and of course the koala, platypus and echidna.
Much of Australia is very arid. You need water to create cities, and Australia is the driest continent in terms of average overall rainfall. The center of the continent is desert and dry grassland, which is makes for pretty low human populations in these areas.
Far more Australians are descended from assisted immigrants than from convicts, the majority of Colonial Era settlers being British and Irish. About 20 percent of Australians are descendants of convicts. Most of the first Australian settlers came from London, the Midlands and the North of England, and Ireland.
However, the 5 percent of the world population that inhabits North America in no way reflects the racial mix of the world, in which only 16 percent are white. That's about 1.19 billion people out of a total world population of 7.4 billion. And it's predicted that by 2060 only 10 percent of the world will be white.
However, multiracial Asian Americans make up the fastest-growing subgroup, with a growth rate of 55%, reflecting the increase of mixed-race marriages in the United States. As of 2022, births to White American mothers remain around 50% of the U.S. total, a decline of 3% compared to 2021.
With a population that hovers around 2,000, the Toto are today considered one of the world's smallest ethnic groups, and, like their fellow Indigenous peoples from the Amazon to Australia, are experiencing the consequences of extractive industries.
Australia's GDP per capita is currently nearly 80 per cent of that of the US, having risen from around 75 per cent in the mid-1980s. To provide a simple decomposition of the long-term evolution of GDP per capita, the Australian Treasury often uses the '3 Ps' framework.
The population of Comoros includes immigrants of African Arabs. 98% of the inhabitant of the Comorosian religion is Islam. It is considered the least diverse country because it constitutes a very small number of European-born Muslims, and a smaller number of Madagascarian, Madagascar people, and Indian immigrants.