Australia’s coastline is 46 times as long as Qatar’s

Australia: 25,760 km (2026 edition) · Qatar: 563 km (2026 edition)

Australia’s highest peak towers 2,125 m above Qatar’s

Australia: 2,228 m (2026 edition) · Qatar: 103 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 47% of Australia, versus 6.4% of Qatar

Australia: 47.3% (2024) · Qatar: 6.4% (2024)

Australia has 9.3 times as many people as Qatar

Australia: 27.6 million (2025) · Qatar: 2.97 million (2025)

Qatar is 72 times as densely populated as Australia

Australia: 4 per km² (2025) · Qatar: 259 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Australia is 4.6 years older than in Qatar

Australia: 37.8 years (2023) · Qatar: 33.2 years (2023)

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

Australia: 1.48 children per woman (2024) · Qatar: 1.72 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in Australia are 65 or older, versus 1.7% in Qatar

Australia: 18.1% (2025) · Qatar: 1.7% (2025)

Australia hosts 18 times as many refugees per resident as Qatar

Australia: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Qatar: 0.1 per 1,000 (2025)

Australia has produced 3.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Qatar none

Australia: 3.6 (2026) · Qatar: 0 (2026)

Australia and Qatar are practically level

Australia: 1 (2026) · Qatar: 1 (2026)

Australia’s economy is 8.3 times the size of Qatar’s

Australia: $1.8 trillion (2025) · Qatar: $216 billion (2025)

Qatar produces 79% more per person than Australia

Australia: Int$71,934 (2025) · Qatar: Int$128,883 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Qatar than in Australia (Gini 1.3 points higher)

Australia: 33.8 (2020) · Qatar: 35.1 (2017)

0.9% of people in Australia live on less than $3 a day, versus 0% in Qatar

Australia: 0.9% (2020) · Qatar: 0% (2017)

Unemployment is 4.1% in Australia, versus 0.1% in Qatar

Australia: 4.1% (2025) · Qatar: 0.1% (2025)

Qatar spends 6.5% of its GDP on the military, Australia 1.9%

Australia: 1.9% (2025) · Qatar: 6.5% (2022)

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

Australia’s price level (US = 100) is 1.6× Qatar’s

Australia: 91% (2025) · Qatar: 56% (2025)

Australia spends 3.9 times as much on health per person as Qatar

Australia: $6,980 (2023) · Qatar: $1,804 (2023)

A baby in Qatar is 55% more likely to die before turning one than in Australia

Australia: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Qatar: 4.8 per 1,000 (2024)

Australia has 35% more doctors per person than Qatar

Australia: 4.1 per 1,000 (2022) · Qatar: 3 per 1,000 (2023)

Australia has 3.1 times as many hospital beds per person as Qatar

Australia: 3.8 per 1,000 (2016) · Qatar: 1.3 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Australia is 4.2 times that in Qatar

Australia: 12.6 per 100k (2023) · Qatar: 3 per 100k (2023)

42% of adults in Qatar are obese, versus 32% in Australia

Australia: 32.4% (2024) · Qatar: 42.4% (2024)

13% of adults in Qatar smoke, versus 12% in Australia

Australia: 11.6% (2024) · Qatar: 12.5% (2024)

People in Australia rate their lives 0.54 points higher than in Qatar

Australia: 6.92 (2025) · Qatar: 6.37 (2018)

Adults in Australia drink 8.1 times as much alcohol as in Qatar

Australia: 10.5 litres (2023) · Qatar: 1.3 litres (2023)

Australia has 63% more meat per person than Qatar

Australia: 116.8 kg (2023) · Qatar: 71.4 kg (2023)

Australia has 311 kcal more food per person per day than Qatar

Australia: 3,562 kcal (2023) · Qatar: 3,251 kcal (2023)

Workers in Qatar put in 824 more hours a year than in Australia

Australia: 1,611 hours (2023) · Qatar: 2,435 hours (2023)

Adults in Australia went to school 2.1 years longer than in Qatar

Australia: 12.9 years (2023) · Qatar: 10.8 years (2023)

Australia: no data · Qatar: 0.96 (2022)

Australia has 20 more World Heritage sites than Qatar (21 against 1)

Australia: 21 (2026) · Qatar: 1 (2026)

Australia has won 619 Olympic medals, Qatar 9

Australia: 619 (2026 edition) · Qatar: 9 (2026 edition)

98% of people in Qatar are online, versus 96% in Australia

Australia: 96% (2024) · Qatar: 98% (2024)

Home internet in Qatar is 55% faster than in Australia

Australia: 261 Mbps (2026) · Qatar: 403 Mbps (2026)

Australia and Qatar are practically level

Australia: 100% (2024) · Qatar: 100% (2024)

99% of people in Qatar live in cities, versus 88% in Australia

Australia: 88% (2025) · Qatar: 99% (2025)

Qatar has 154 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Australia 113

Australia: 113 (2024) · Qatar: 154 (2024)

Australia: 32,606 km (2022) · Qatar: no data

Airlines from Qatar fly 5.1 times as many passengers per resident as those from Australia

Australia: 2.5 (2023) · Qatar: 12.69 (2023)

Forest covers 17% of Australia, but only 0.1% of Qatar

Australia: 17.4% (2024) · Qatar: 0.1% (2024)

The average person in Qatar emits 2.9 times as much CO₂ as someone in Australia

Australia: 14.5 t (2024) · Qatar: 41.3 t (2024)

39% of Australia’s electricity is renewable, versus 4.1% in Qatar

Australia: 38.6% (2025) · Qatar: 4.1% (2025)

The air in Qatar carries 14 times as much fine dust as in Australia

Australia: 5.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Qatar: 75.5 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 12 times as likely to be murdered in Australia as in Qatar

Australia: 0.9 per 100k (2023) · Qatar: 0.1 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Qatar are 19% deadlier than in Australia

Australia: 7.5 per 100k (2023) · Qatar: 8.9 per 100k (2023)

Qatar is on average 5.7 °C warmer than Australia

Australia: 22.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Qatar: 28.2°C (2016–2025 avg)

Australia gets 7 times as much rain as Qatar

Australia: 447 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Qatar: 64 mm (2016–2025 avg)