The Philippines’ coastline is 41% longer than Australia’s

Australia: 25,760 km (2026 edition) · Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition)

The Philippines’ highest peak towers 726 m above Australia’s

Australia: 2,228 m (2026 edition) · Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 47% of Australia, versus 43% of the Philippines

Australia: 47.3% (2024) · Philippines: 42.7% (2024)

The Philippines has 4.2 times as many people as Australia

Australia: 27.6 million (2025) · Philippines: 117 million (2025)

The Philippines is 109 times as densely populated as Australia

Australia: 4 per km² (2025) · Philippines: 392 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Australia is 12 years older than in the Philippines

Australia: 37.8 years (2023) · Philippines: 25.3 years (2023)

Women in the Philippines have 0.4 more children on average than in Australia

Australia: 1.48 children per woman (2024) · Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in Australia are 65 or older, versus 5.7% in the Philippines

Australia: 18.1% (2025) · Philippines: 5.7% (2025)

Australia hosts 137 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Australia: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025)

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

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

The Philippines has 2 official languages, Australia 1

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

Australia’s economy is 3.7 times the size of the Philippines’

Australia: $1.8 trillion (2025) · Philippines: $487 billion (2025)

Australia produces 5.7 times as much per person as the Philippines

Australia: Int$71,934 (2025) · Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the Philippines than in Australia (Gini 5.5 points higher)

Australia: 33.8 (2020) · Philippines: 39.3 (2023)

5.3% of people in the Philippines live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.9% in Australia

Australia: 0.9% (2020) · Philippines: 5.3% (2023)

Unemployment is 4.1% in Australia, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Australia: 4.1% (2025) · Philippines: 2.2% (2025)

Australia spends 1.9% of its GDP on the military, the Philippines 1.3%

Australia: 1.9% (2025) · Philippines: 1.3% (2025)

Australia’s central government collects 24% of GDP in tax, the Philippines’ 14%

Australia: 23.6% (2022) · Philippines: 14.4% (2024)

Australia’s price level (US = 100) is 2.7× the Philippines’

Australia: 91% (2025) · Philippines: 33% (2025)

Australia spends 36 times as much on health per person as the Philippines

Australia: $6,980 (2023) · Philippines: $194 (2023)

A baby in the Philippines is 7 times as likely to die before turning one as in Australia

Australia: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Australia has 5.2 times as many doctors per person as the Philippines

Australia: 4.1 per 1,000 (2022) · Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021)

Australia has 3.9 times as many hospital beds per person as the Philippines

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

The suicide rate in Australia is 4.1 times that in the Philippines

Australia: 12.6 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023)

32% of adults in Australia are obese, versus 9.7% in the Philippines

Australia: 32.4% (2024) · Philippines: 9.7% (2024)

20% of adults in the Philippines smoke, versus 12% in Australia

Australia: 11.6% (2024) · Philippines: 19.9% (2024)

People in Australia rate their lives 0.71 points higher than in the Philippines

Australia: 6.92 (2025) · Philippines: 6.21 (2025)

Adults in Australia drink 72% more alcohol than in the Philippines

Australia: 10.5 litres (2023) · Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023)

Australia has 3.5 times as much meat per person as the Philippines

Australia: 116.8 kg (2023) · Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023)

Australia has 579 kcal more food per person per day than the Philippines

Australia: 3,562 kcal (2023) · Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023)

Workers in the Philippines put in 485 more hours a year than in Australia

Australia: 1,611 hours (2023) · Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023)

Adults in Australia went to school 2.9 years longer than in the Philippines

Australia: 12.9 years (2023) · Philippines: 10 years (2023)

Australia: no data · Philippines: 0.02 (2022)

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

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

Australia has won 619 Olympic medals, the Philippines 18

Australia: 619 (2026 edition) · Philippines: 18 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Australia are online, versus 67% in the Philippines

Australia: 96% (2024) · Philippines: 67% (2024)

Home internet in Australia is 57% faster than in the Philippines

Australia: 261 Mbps (2026) · Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Australia have electricity, versus 95% in the Philippines

Australia: 100% (2024) · Philippines: 94.8% (2024)

88% of people in Australia live in cities, versus 56% in the Philippines

Australia: 88% (2025) · Philippines: 56% (2025)

The Philippines has 115 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Australia 113

Australia: 113 (2024) · Philippines: 115 (2024)

Australia’s railway network is 64 times as long as the Philippines’

Australia: 32,606 km (2022) · Philippines: 509 km (2016)

Airlines from Australia fly 7 times as many passengers per resident as those from the Philippines

Australia: 2.5 (2023) · Philippines: 0.36 (2023)

Forest covers 25% of the Philippines, but only 17% of Australia

Australia: 17.4% (2024) · Philippines: 24.8% (2024)

The average person in Australia emits 9.6 times as much CO₂ as someone in the Philippines

Australia: 14.5 t (2024) · Philippines: 1.5 t (2024)

39% of Australia’s electricity is renewable, versus 23% in the Philippines

Australia: 38.6% (2025) · Philippines: 23.3% (2025)

The air in the Philippines carries 4.3 times as much fine dust as in Australia

Australia: 5.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 5.1 times as likely to be murdered in the Philippines as in Australia

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

Roads in the Philippines are 84% deadlier than in Australia

Australia: 7.5 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 3.9 °C warmer than Australia

Australia: 22.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 6.7 times as much rain as Australia

Australia: 447 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg)