Australia’s coastline is 3.4 times as long as Brazil’s

Australia: 25,760 km (2026 edition) · Brazil: 7,491 km (2026 edition)

Brazil’s highest peak towers 766 m above Australia’s

Australia: 2,228 m (2026 edition) · Brazil: 2,994 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 47% of Australia, versus 28% of Brazil

Australia: 47.3% (2024) · Brazil: 28.4% (2024)

Brazil has 7.7 times as many people as Australia

Australia: 27.6 million (2025) · Brazil: 213 million (2025)

Brazil is 7.1 times as densely populated as Australia

Australia: 4 per km² (2025) · Brazil: 25 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Australia is 3.8 years older than in Brazil

Australia: 37.8 years (2023) · Brazil: 33.9 years (2023)

Women in Brazil have 0.1 more children on average than in Australia

Australia: 1.48 children per woman (2024) · Brazil: 1.61 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in Australia are 65 or older, versus 11% in Brazil

Australia: 18.1% (2025) · Brazil: 11.5% (2025)

Brazil hosts 8% more refugees per resident than Australia

Australia: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Brazil: 1.3 per 1,000 (2025)

Australia has produced 3.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Brazil 0.0

Australia: 3.6 (2026) · Brazil: 0.047 (2026)

Australia and Brazil are practically level

Australia: 1 (2026) · Brazil: 1 (2026)

Brazil’s economy is 27% larger than Australia’s

Australia: $1.8 trillion (2025) · Brazil: $2.28 trillion (2025)

Australia produces 3.1 times as much per person as Brazil

Australia: Int$71,934 (2025) · Brazil: Int$23,433 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Brazil than in Australia (Gini 16.5 points higher)

Australia: 33.8 (2020) · Brazil: 50.3 (2024)

3.0% of people in Brazil live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.9% in Australia

Australia: 0.9% (2020) · Brazil: 3% (2024)

Unemployment is 6.0% in Brazil, versus 4.1% in Australia

Australia: 4.1% (2025) · Brazil: 6% (2025)

Australia spends 1.9% of its GDP on the military, Brazil 1.1%

Australia: 1.9% (2025) · Brazil: 1.1% (2025)

Australia’s central government collects 24% of GDP in tax, Brazil’s 15%

Australia: 23.6% (2022) · Brazil: 15.4% (2024)

Australia’s price level (US = 100) is 2× Brazil’s

Australia: 91% (2025) · Brazil: 46% (2025)

Australia spends 6.9 times as much on health per person as Brazil

Australia: $6,980 (2023) · Brazil: $1,010 (2023)

A baby in Brazil is 4 times as likely to die before turning one as in Australia

Australia: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Brazil: 12.3 per 1,000 (2024)

Australia has 73% more doctors per person than Brazil

Australia: 4.1 per 1,000 (2022) · Brazil: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023)

Australia has 52% more hospital beds per person than Brazil

Australia: 3.8 per 1,000 (2016) · Brazil: 2.5 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in Australia is 43% higher than in Brazil

Australia: 12.6 per 100k (2023) · Brazil: 8.8 per 100k (2023)

32% of adults in Australia are obese, versus 31% in Brazil

Australia: 32.4% (2024) · Brazil: 30.9% (2024)

Brazil and Australia are practically level

Australia: 11.6% (2024) · Brazil: 11.9% (2024)

People in Australia rate their lives 0.28 points higher than in Brazil

Australia: 6.92 (2025) · Brazil: 6.63 (2025)

Adults in Australia drink 1% more alcohol than in Brazil

Australia: 10.5 litres (2023) · Brazil: 10.4 litres (2023)

Australia has 12% more meat per person than Brazil

Australia: 116.8 kg (2023) · Brazil: 104.6 kg (2023)

Australia has 138 kcal more food per person per day than Brazil

Australia: 3,562 kcal (2023) · Brazil: 3,423 kcal (2023)

Workers in Brazil put in 383 more hours a year than in Australia

Australia: 1,611 hours (2023) · Brazil: 1,994 hours (2023)

Adults in Australia went to school 4.4 years longer than in Brazil

Australia: 12.9 years (2023) · Brazil: 8.4 years (2023)

Australia: no data · Brazil: 0.03 (2024)

Brazil has 5 more World Heritage sites than Australia (26 against 21)

Australia: 21 (2026) · Brazil: 26 (2026)

Australia has won 619 Olympic medals, Brazil 171

Australia: 619 (2026 edition) · Brazil: 171 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Australia are online, versus 84% in Brazil

Australia: 96% (2024) · Brazil: 84% (2024)

Home internet in Brazil is 12% faster than in Australia

Australia: 261 Mbps (2026) · Brazil: 293 Mbps (2026)

Australia and Brazil are practically level

Australia: 100% (2024) · Brazil: 99.8% (2024)

Brazil and Australia are practically level

Australia: 88% (2025) · Brazil: 88% (2025)

Australia has 113 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Brazil 102

Australia: 113 (2024) · Brazil: 102 (2024)

Australia’s railway network is 9% longer than Brazil’s

Australia: 32,606 km (2022) · Brazil: 29,850 km (2014)

Airlines from Australia fly 5.6 times as many passengers per resident as those from Brazil

Australia: 2.5 (2023) · Brazil: 0.45 (2023)

Forest covers 59% of Brazil, but only 17% of Australia

Australia: 17.4% (2024) · Brazil: 58.5% (2024)

The average person in Australia emits 6.4 times as much CO₂ as someone in Brazil

Australia: 14.5 t (2024) · Brazil: 2.3 t (2024)

87% of Brazil’s electricity is renewable, versus 39% in Australia

Australia: 38.6% (2025) · Brazil: 86.6% (2025)

The air in Brazil carries 2.8 times as much fine dust as in Australia

Australia: 5.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Brazil: 15.3 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 23 times as likely to be murdered in Brazil as in Australia

Australia: 0.9 per 100k (2023) · Brazil: 19.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Brazil are 3.5 times as deadly as in Australia

Australia: 7.5 per 100k (2023) · Brazil: 25.9 per 100k (2023)

Brazil is on average 2.8 °C warmer than Australia

Australia: 22.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Brazil: 25.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Brazil gets 3.7 times as much rain as Australia

Australia: 447 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Brazil: 1,661 mm (2016–2025 avg)