Australia’s coastline is 8 times as long as Colombia’s

Australia: 25,760 km (2026 edition) · Colombia: 3,208 km (2026 edition)

Colombia’s highest peak towers 3,502 m above Australia’s

Australia: 2,228 m (2026 edition) · Colombia: 5,730 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 47% of Australia, versus 37% of Colombia

Australia: 47.3% (2024) · Colombia: 36.5% (2024)

Colombia has 93% more people than Australia

Australia: 27.6 million (2025) · Colombia: 53.4 million (2025)

Colombia is 13 times as densely populated as Australia

Australia: 4 per km² (2025) · Colombia: 48 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Australia is 6.1 years older than in Colombia

Australia: 37.8 years (2023) · Colombia: 31.6 years (2023)

Women in Colombia have 0.2 more children on average than in Australia

Australia: 1.48 children per woman (2024) · Colombia: 1.63 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in Australia are 65 or older, versus 10% in Colombia

Australia: 18.1% (2025) · Colombia: 10.2% (2025)

Australia hosts 44 times as many refugees per resident as Colombia

Australia: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Colombia: 0.027 per 1,000 (2025)

Australia has produced 3.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Colombia 0.4

Australia: 3.6 (2026) · Colombia: 0.4 (2026)

Australia and Colombia are practically level

Australia: 1 (2026) · Colombia: 1 (2026)

Australia’s economy is 3.9 times the size of Colombia’s

Australia: $1.8 trillion (2025) · Colombia: $457 billion (2025)

Australia produces 3.2 times as much per person as Colombia

Australia: Int$71,934 (2025) · Colombia: Int$22,640 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Colombia than in Australia (Gini 20.6 points higher)

Australia: 33.8 (2020) · Colombia: 54.4 (2024)

8.5% of people in Colombia live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.9% in Australia

Australia: 0.9% (2020) · Colombia: 8.5% (2024)

Unemployment is 8.3% in Colombia, versus 4.1% in Australia

Australia: 4.1% (2025) · Colombia: 8.3% (2025)

Colombia spends 3.2% of its GDP on the military, Australia 1.9%

Australia: 1.9% (2025) · Colombia: 3.2% (2025)

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

Australia: 23.6% (2022) · Colombia: 15.2% (2024)

Australia’s price level (US = 100) is 2.4× Colombia’s

Australia: 91% (2025) · Colombia: 38% (2025)

Australia spends 11 times as much on health per person as Colombia

Australia: $6,980 (2023) · Colombia: $644 (2024)

A baby in Colombia is 3.4 times as likely to die before turning one as in Australia

Australia: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Colombia: 10.5 per 1,000 (2024)

Australia has 61% more doctors per person than Colombia

Australia: 4.1 per 1,000 (2022) · Colombia: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023)

Australia has 2.2 times as many hospital beds per person as Colombia

Australia: 3.8 per 1,000 (2016) · Colombia: 1.7 per 1,000 (2020)

The suicide rate in Australia is 85% higher than in Colombia

Australia: 12.6 per 100k (2023) · Colombia: 6.8 per 100k (2023)

32% of adults in Australia are obese, versus 25% in Colombia

Australia: 32.4% (2024) · Colombia: 25.3% (2024)

12% of adults in Australia smoke, versus 8.0% in Colombia

Australia: 11.6% (2024) · Colombia: 8% (2024)

People in Australia rate their lives 0.88 points higher than in Colombia

Australia: 6.92 (2025) · Colombia: 6.04 (2025)

Adults in Australia drink 2.2 times as much alcohol as in Colombia

Australia: 10.5 litres (2023) · Colombia: 4.9 litres (2023)

Australia has 87% more meat per person than Colombia

Australia: 116.8 kg (2023) · Colombia: 62.6 kg (2023)

Australia has 436 kcal more food per person per day than Colombia

Australia: 3,562 kcal (2023) · Colombia: 3,126 kcal (2023)

Workers in Colombia put in 859 more hours a year than in Australia

Australia: 1,611 hours (2023) · Colombia: 2,471 hours (2023)

Adults in Australia went to school 3.8 years longer than in Colombia

Australia: 12.9 years (2023) · Colombia: 9 years (2023)

Australia: no data · Colombia: 0.09 (2022)

Australia has 12 more World Heritage sites than Colombia (21 against 9)

Australia: 21 (2026) · Colombia: 9 (2026)

Australia has won 619 Olympic medals, Colombia 38

Australia: 619 (2026 edition) · Colombia: 38 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Australia are online, versus 79% in Colombia

Australia: 96% (2024) · Colombia: 79% (2024)

Home internet in Australia is 6% faster than in Colombia

Australia: 261 Mbps (2026) · Colombia: 246 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Australia have electricity, versus 99% in Colombia

Australia: 100% (2024) · Colombia: 98.9% (2024)

88% of people in Australia live in cities, versus 79% in Colombia

Australia: 88% (2025) · Colombia: 79% (2025)

Colombia has 174 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Australia 113

Australia: 113 (2024) · Colombia: 174 (2024)

Australia’s railway network is 15 times as long as Colombia’s

Australia: 32,606 km (2022) · Colombia: 2,141 km (2019)

Airlines from Australia fly 3.1 times as many passengers per resident as those from Colombia

Australia: 2.5 (2023) · Colombia: 0.79 (2023)

Forest covers 54% of Colombia, but only 17% of Australia

Australia: 17.4% (2024) · Colombia: 53.7% (2024)

The average person in Australia emits 8.3 times as much CO₂ as someone in Colombia

Australia: 14.5 t (2024) · Colombia: 1.8 t (2024)

77% of Colombia’s electricity is renewable, versus 39% in Australia

Australia: 38.6% (2025) · Colombia: 77% (2025)

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

Australia: 5.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Colombia: 15.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 29 times as likely to be murdered in Colombia as in Australia

Australia: 0.9 per 100k (2023) · Colombia: 24.9 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Colombia are 3.6 times as deadly as in Australia

Australia: 7.5 per 100k (2023) · Colombia: 26.7 per 100k (2023)

Colombia is on average 1.9 °C warmer than Australia

Australia: 22.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Colombia: 24.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

Colombia gets 7.1 times as much rain as Australia

Australia: 447 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Colombia: 3,155 mm (2016–2025 avg)