Russia’s coastline is 46% longer than Australia’s

Australia: 25,760 km (2026 edition) · Russia: 37,653 km (2026 edition)

Russia’s highest peak towers 3,414 m above Australia’s

Australia: 2,228 m (2026 edition) · Russia: 5,642 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 47% of Australia, versus 13% of Russia

Australia: 47.3% (2024) · Russia: 13.2% (2024)

Russia has 5.2 times as many people as Australia

Australia: 27.6 million (2025) · Russia: 144 million (2025)

Russia is 2.4 times as densely populated as Australia

Australia: 4 per km² (2025) · Russia: 9 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Russia is 1.7 years older than in Australia

Australia: 37.8 years (2023) · Russia: 39.5 years (2023)

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

Australia: 1.48 children per woman (2024) · Russia: 1.42 children per woman (2024)

Australia and Russia are practically level

Australia: 18.1% (2025) · Russia: 17.8% (2025)

Australia hosts 15 times as many refugees per resident as Russia

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

Australia has produced 3.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Russia 2.0

Australia: 3.6 (2026) · Russia: 2 (2026)

Australia and Russia are practically level

Australia: 1 (2026) · Russia: 1 (2026)

Russia’s economy is 42% larger than Australia’s

Australia: $1.8 trillion (2025) · Russia: $2.56 trillion (2025)

Australia produces 45% more per person than Russia

Australia: Int$71,934 (2025) · Russia: Int$49,568 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Australia than in Russia (Gini 0.8 points higher)

Australia: 33.8 (2020) · Russia: 33 (2023)

0.9% of people in Australia live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.1% in Russia

Australia: 0.9% (2020) · Russia: 0.1% (2023)

Unemployment is 4.1% in Australia, versus 2.1% in Russia

Australia: 4.1% (2025) · Russia: 2.1% (2025)

Russia spends 7.5% of its GDP on the military, Australia 1.9%

Australia: 1.9% (2025) · Russia: 7.5% (2025)

Australia’s central government collects 24% of GDP in tax, Russia’s 11%

Australia: 23.6% (2022) · Russia: 10.9% (2024)

Australia’s price level (US = 100) is 2.6× Russia’s

Australia: 91% (2025) · Russia: 35% (2025)

Australia spends 7 times as much on health per person as Russia

Australia: $6,980 (2023) · Russia: $1,003 (2023)

A baby in Russia is 32% more likely to die before turning one than in Australia

Australia: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Russia: 4.1 per 1,000 (2024)

Russia has 25% more doctors per person than Australia

Australia: 4.1 per 1,000 (2022) · Russia: 5.1 per 1,000 (2022)

Russia has 78% more hospital beds per person than Australia

Australia: 3.8 per 1,000 (2016) · Russia: 6.8 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Russia is 57% higher than in Australia

Australia: 12.6 per 100k (2023) · Russia: 19.8 per 100k (2023)

32% of adults in Australia are obese, versus 21% in Russia

Australia: 32.4% (2024) · Russia: 21.2% (2024)

27% of adults in Russia smoke, versus 12% in Australia

Australia: 11.6% (2024) · Russia: 27% (2024)

People in Australia rate their lives 1.08 points higher than in Russia

Australia: 6.92 (2025) · Russia: 5.83 (2025)

Australia and Russia are nearly identical here

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

Australia has 38% more meat per person than Russia

Australia: 116.8 kg (2023) · Russia: 84.8 kg (2023)

Australia has 34 kcal more food per person per day than Russia

Australia: 3,562 kcal (2023) · Russia: 3,528 kcal (2023)

Workers in Russia put in 476 more hours a year than in Australia

Australia: 1,611 hours (2023) · Russia: 2,087 hours (2023)

Adults in Australia went to school 0.46 years longer than in Russia

Australia: 12.9 years (2023) · Russia: 12.4 years (2023)

Russia has 12 more World Heritage sites than Australia (33 against 21)

Australia: 21 (2026) · Russia: 33 (2026)

Australia has won 619 Olympic medals, Russia 539

Australia: 619 (2026 edition) · Russia: 539 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Australia are online, versus 94% in Russia

Australia: 96% (2024) · Russia: 94% (2024)

Australia: 261 Mbps (2026) · Russia: no data

Australia and Russia are practically level

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

88% of people in Australia live in cities, versus 75% in Russia

Australia: 88% (2025) · Russia: 75% (2025)

Russia has 186 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Australia 113

Australia: 113 (2024) · Russia: 186 (2024)

Russia’s railway network is 2.6 times as long as Australia’s

Australia: 32,606 km (2022) · Russia: 85,544 km (2021)

Airlines from Australia fly 3.6 times as many passengers per resident as those from Russia

Australia: 2.5 (2023) · Russia: 0.69 (2023)

Forest covers 51% of Russia, but only 17% of Australia

Australia: 17.4% (2024) · Russia: 50.8% (2024)

The average person in Australia emits 18% more CO₂ than someone in Russia

Australia: 14.5 t (2024) · Russia: 12.3 t (2024)

39% of Australia’s electricity is renewable, versus 17% in Russia

Australia: 38.6% (2025) · Russia: 17.4% (2025)

The air in Russia carries 2.4 times as much fine dust as in Australia

Australia: 5.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Russia: 12.9 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 9.2 times as likely to be murdered in Russia as in Australia

Australia: 0.9 per 100k (2023) · Russia: 7.8 per 100k (2024)

Roads in Russia are 79% deadlier than in Australia

Australia: 7.5 per 100k (2023) · Russia: 13.4 per 100k (2023)

Australia is on average 25.1 °C warmer than Russia

Australia: 22.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Russia: -2.6°C (2016–2025 avg)

Russia gets 31% more rain than Australia

Australia: 447 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Russia: 586 mm (2016–2025 avg)