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Land

Size, shape and altitude

Total area

How big is it, really?

Pakistan fits inside Australia 9.7 times

Australia: 7,741,220 km² (2024) · Pakistan: 796,100 km² (2024)

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Coastline

How much coast is there?

Australia’s coastline is 25 times as long as Pakistan’s

Australia: 25,760 km (2026 edition) · Pakistan: 1,046 km (2026 edition)

Highest point

How high can you climb?

Pakistan’s highest peak towers 6,383 m above Australia’s

Australia: 2,228 m (2026 edition) · Pakistan: 8,611 m (2026 edition)

Farmland

How much of the land is farmed?

Australia and Pakistan are practically level

Australia: 47.3% (2024) · Pakistan: 47.2% (2024)

How far apart are they?

People

Who lives there, and how closely

Population

How many people live there?

Pakistan has 9.2 times as many people as Australia

Australia: 27.6 million (2025) · Pakistan: 255 million (2025)

Population density

How crowded is it?

Pakistan is 92 times as densely populated as Australia

Australia: 4 per km² (2025) · Pakistan: 331 per km² (2025)

Height of men

How tall are the men?

Men in Australia are 11.4 cm taller than in Pakistan

Australia: 178.8 cm (2019) · Pakistan: 167.3 cm (2019)

Height of women

How tall are the women?

Women in Australia are 9.9 cm taller than in Pakistan

Australia: 164.7 cm (2019) · Pakistan: 154.8 cm (2019)

Median age

How old is the typical person?

The typical person in Australia is 17 years older than in Pakistan

Australia: 37.8 years (2023) · Pakistan: 20.3 years (2023)

Fertility rate

How many children per woman?

Women in Pakistan have 2.1 more children on average than in Australia

Australia: 1.48 children per woman (2024) · Pakistan: 3.55 children per woman (2024)

Aged 65 and over

How many people are 65 or older?

18% of people in Australia are 65 or older, versus 4.4% in Pakistan

Australia: 18.1% (2025) · Pakistan: 4.4% (2025)

Refugees hosted per 1,000 residents

How many refugees does it host?

Pakistan hosts 3.8 times as many refugees per resident as Australia

Australia: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Pakistan: 4.5 per 1,000 (2025)

Nobel laureates per 10 million people

How many Nobel laureates were born there?

Australia has produced 3.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Pakistan 0.1

Australia: 3.6 (2026) · Pakistan: 0.1 (2026)

Official languages

How many official languages?

Pakistan has 2 official languages, Australia 1

Australia: 1 (2026) · Pakistan: 2 (2026)

What shape is the population?

Money

What an economy looks like per person

Economy size (GDP)

How big is the economy?

Australia’s economy is 4.4 times the size of Pakistan’s

Australia: $1.8 trillion (2025) · Pakistan: $407 billion (2025)

GDP per person (PPP)

How much is produced per person?

Australia produces 11 times as much per person as Pakistan

Australia: Int$71,934 (2025) · Pakistan: Int$6,573 (2025)

Income inequality (Gini)

How evenly is income shared?

Income is more unequally shared in Australia than in Pakistan (Gini 0.3 points higher)

Australia: 33.8 (2020) · Pakistan: 33.5 (2024)

Extreme poverty ($3.00 a day)

How many live on less than $3 a day?

23% of people in Pakistan live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.9% in Australia

Australia: 0.9% (2020) · Pakistan: 23% (2024)

Unemployment

How many people are looking for work?

Unemployment is 5.4% in Pakistan, versus 4.1% in Australia

Australia: 4.1% (2025) · Pakistan: 5.4% (2025)

Military spending

How much goes to the military?

Pakistan spends 2.9% of its GDP on the military, Australia 1.9%

Australia: 1.9% (2025) · Pakistan: 2.9% (2025)

Tax revenue (central government)

How much does the central government collect in tax?

Australia: 23.6% (2022) · Pakistan: no data

Price level (US = 100)

How expensive is it?

Australia’s price level (US = 100) is 3.7× Pakistan’s

Australia: 91% (2025) · Pakistan: 24% (2025)

Health

Long lives, small beginnings

Health spending per person

How much is spent on health?

Australia spends 229 times as much on health per person as Pakistan

Australia: $6,980 (2023) · Pakistan: $30 (2023)

Life expectancy

How long do people live?

People in Australia live 15 years longer than in Pakistan

Australia: 83.1 years (2024) · Pakistan: 67.8 years (2024)

Infant mortality

How many babies don’t reach their first birthday?

A baby in Pakistan is 16 times as likely to die before turning one as in Australia

Australia: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Pakistan: 48.2 per 1,000 (2024)

Doctors

How many doctors are there?

Australia has 3.5 times as many doctors per person as Pakistan

Australia: 4.1 per 1,000 (2022) · Pakistan: 1.2 per 1,000 (2021)

Hospital beds

How many hospital beds are there?

Australia has 6.1 times as many hospital beds per person as Pakistan

Australia: 3.8 per 1,000 (2016) · Pakistan: 0.6 per 1,000 (2020)

Suicide rate

How common is suicide?

The suicide rate in Australia is 38% higher than in Pakistan

Australia: 12.6 per 100k (2023) · Pakistan: 9.1 per 100k (2023)

Adult obesity

How common is obesity?

32% of adults in Australia are obese, versus 24% in Pakistan

Australia: 32.4% (2024) · Pakistan: 23.5% (2024)

Smoking

How many adults smoke?

18% of adults in Pakistan smoke, versus 12% in Australia

Australia: 11.6% (2024) · Pakistan: 17.9% (2024)

Everyday life

Plates, glasses and happiness

Life satisfaction

How do people rate their lives?

People in Australia rate their lives 2.05 points higher than in Pakistan

Australia: 6.92 (2025) · Pakistan: 4.87 (2025)

Alcohol consumption

How much do people drink?

Adults in Australia drink 121 times as much alcohol as in Pakistan

Australia: 10.5 litres (2023) · Pakistan: 0.1 litres (2023)

Meat supply

How much meat is on the menu?

Australia has 5.5 times as much meat per person as Pakistan

Australia: 116.8 kg (2023) · Pakistan: 21.2 kg (2023)

Daily calories

How much food is there per day?

Australia has 1,048 kcal more food per person per day than Pakistan

Australia: 3,562 kcal (2023) · Pakistan: 2,514 kcal (2023)

Working hours

How long do people work?

Workers in Pakistan put in 860 more hours a year than in Australia

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

Years of schooling

How long do people go to school?

Adults in Australia went to school 8.6 years longer than in Pakistan

Australia: 12.9 years (2023) · Pakistan: 4.3 years (2023)

World Heritage sites

How many World Heritage sites?

Australia has 15 more World Heritage sites than Pakistan (21 against 6)

Australia: 21 (2026) · Pakistan: 6 (2026)

Olympic medals (all time)

How many Olympic medals has it won?

Australia has won 619 Olympic medals, Pakistan 11

Australia: 619 (2026 edition) · Pakistan: 11 (2026 edition)

Connected

Online, electrified, urban

Internet users

How many people are online?

96% of people in Australia are online, versus 57% in Pakistan

Australia: 96% (2024) · Pakistan: 57% (2024)

Fixed broadband download speed

How fast is home internet?

Home internet in Australia is 11 times as fast as in Pakistan

Australia: 261 Mbps (2026) · Pakistan: 24 Mbps (2026)

Access to electricity

Who has electricity at home?

100% of people in Australia have electricity, versus 96% in Pakistan

Australia: 100% (2024) · Pakistan: 95.7% (2024)

Urban population

How many live in cities?

88% of people in Australia live in cities, versus 40% in Pakistan

Australia: 88% (2025) · Pakistan: 40% (2025)

Mobile subscriptions

How many phones per person?

Australia has 113 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Pakistan 77

Australia: 113 (2024) · Pakistan: 77 (2024)

Railway network

How much railway is there?

Australia’s railway network is 4.2 times as long as Pakistan’s

Australia: 32,606 km (2022) · Pakistan: 7,791 km (2019)

Air passengers per resident

How much do they fly?

Airlines from Australia fly 89 times as many passengers per resident as those from Pakistan

Australia: 2.5 (2023) · Pakistan: 0.03 (2023)

Planet

Air, forests and energy

Forest cover

How much of the land is forest?

Forest covers 17% of Australia, but only 4.1% of Pakistan

Australia: 17.4% (2024) · Pakistan: 4.1% (2024)

CO₂ per person

How much CO₂ does each person emit?

The average person in Australia emits 20 times as much CO₂ as someone in Pakistan

Australia: 14.5 t (2024) · Pakistan: 0.7 t (2024)

Renewable electricity

How green is the power grid?

43% of Pakistan’s electricity is renewable, versus 39% in Australia

Australia: 38.6% (2025) · Pakistan: 42.7% (2025)

Air pollution (PM2.5)

How clean is the air?

The air in Pakistan carries 10 times as much fine dust as in Australia

Australia: 5.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Pakistan: 53.8 µg/m³ (2024)

Where does the power come from?

Safety

Measured risk, not vibes

Homicide rate

How common is murder?

You are 5.1 times as likely to be murdered in Pakistan as in Australia

Australia: 0.9 per 100k (2023) · Pakistan: 4.3 per 100k (2023)

Road deaths

How dangerous are the roads?

Roads in Pakistan are 2.2 times as deadly as in Australia

Australia: 7.5 per 100k (2023) · Pakistan: 16.7 per 100k (2023)

Climate

What the year feels like

Average temperature

How warm is it?

Australia is on average 1.5 °C warmer than Pakistan

Australia: 22.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Pakistan: 21°C (2016–2025 avg)

Rainfall

How much rain falls?

Australia gets 8% more rain than Pakistan

Australia: 447 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Pakistan: 416 mm (2016–2025 avg)

What does the year feel like?

Between them

People, goods and passports that cross from one to the other

Who has moved between them?
Can they visit without a visa?
What do they sell each other?
Have they met on the pitch?
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Quick answers

Is Australia bigger than Pakistan?

Australia is larger. Pakistan fits inside Australia 9.7 times.

Which has more people, Australia or Pakistan?

Pakistan has 9.2 times as many people as Australia (2025 estimates).

Where do people live longer, Australia or Pakistan?

People in Australia live 15 years longer than in Pakistan. Life expectancy at birth is 83.1 years in Australia and 67.8 in Pakistan.

Are people taller in Australia or Pakistan?

Men in Australia are 11.4 cm taller than in Pakistan (NCD-RisC, cohort born 2019).

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