Australia’s coastline is 30 times as long as Sudan’s

Australia: 25,760 km (2026 edition) · Sudan: 853 km (2026 edition)

Sudan’s highest peak towers 814 m above Australia’s

Australia: 2,228 m (2026 edition) · Sudan: 3,042 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 60% of Sudan, versus 47% of Australia

Australia: 47.3% (2024) · Sudan: 60.3% (2024)

Sudan has 87% more people than Australia

Australia: 27.6 million (2025) · Sudan: 51.7 million (2025)

Sudan is 7.7 times as densely populated as Australia

Australia: 4 per km² (2025) · Sudan: 28 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Australia is 19 years older than in Sudan

Australia: 37.8 years (2023) · Sudan: 18.3 years (2023)

Women in Sudan have 2.8 more children on average than in Australia

Australia: 1.48 children per woman (2024) · Sudan: 4.26 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in Australia are 65 or older, versus 3.4% in Sudan

Australia: 18.1% (2025) · Sudan: 3.4% (2025)

Sudan hosts 13 times as many refugees per resident as Australia

Australia: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Sudan: 15.7 per 1,000 (2025)

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

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

Sudan has 2 official languages, Australia 1

Australia: 1 (2026) · Sudan: 2 (2026)

Australia’s economy is 30 times the size of Sudan’s

Australia: $1.8 trillion (2025) · Sudan: $60.2 billion (2025)

Australia produces 33 times as much per person as Sudan

Australia: Int$71,934 (2025) · Sudan: Int$2,192 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Sudan than in Australia (Gini 0.4 points higher)

Australia: 33.8 (2020) · Sudan: 34.2 (2014)

Australia: 0.9% (2020) · Sudan: no data

Unemployment is 7.5% in Sudan, versus 4.1% in Australia

Australia: 4.1% (2025) · Sudan: 7.5% (2022)

Australia spends 1.9% of its GDP on the military, Sudan 0.9%

Australia: 1.9% (2025) · Sudan: 0.9% (2021)

Australia’s central government collects 24% of GDP in tax, Sudan’s 7.4%

Australia: 23.6% (2022) · Sudan: 7.4% (2016)

Australia’s price level (US = 100) is 1.7× Sudan’s

Australia: 91% (2025) · Sudan: 53% (2025)

Australia spends 331 times as much on health per person as Sudan

Australia: $6,980 (2023) · Sudan: $21 (2023)

A baby in Sudan is 14 times as likely to die before turning one as in Australia

Australia: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Sudan: 42.9 per 1,000 (2024)

Australia has 16 times as many doctors per person as Sudan

Australia: 4.1 per 1,000 (2022) · Sudan: 0.3 per 1,000 (2017)

Australia has 5.8 times as many hospital beds per person as Sudan

Australia: 3.8 per 1,000 (2016) · Sudan: 0.7 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in Australia is 3.4 times that in Sudan

Australia: 12.6 per 100k (2023) · Sudan: 3.7 per 100k (2023)

32% of adults in Australia are obese, versus 16% in Sudan

Australia: 32.4% (2024) · Sudan: 16.1% (2024)

Australia: 11.6% (2024) · Sudan: no data

People in Australia rate their lives 2.78 points higher than in Sudan

Australia: 6.92 (2025) · Sudan: 4.14 (2017)

Adults in Australia drink 7.5 times as much alcohol as in Sudan

Australia: 10.5 litres (2023) · Sudan: 1.4 litres (2023)

Australia has 6.4 times as much meat per person as Sudan

Australia: 116.8 kg (2023) · Sudan: 18.4 kg (2022)

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

Australia: 3,562 kcal (2023) · Sudan: 2,513 kcal (2022)

Workers in Sudan put in 1,047 more hours a year than in Australia

Australia: 1,611 hours (2023) · Sudan: 2,658 hours (2023)

Adults in Australia went to school 8.9 years longer than in Sudan

Australia: 12.9 years (2023) · Sudan: 4 years (2023)

Australia: no data · Sudan: 0.02 (2018)

Australia has 18 more World Heritage sites than Sudan (21 against 3)

Australia: 21 (2026) · Sudan: 3 (2026)

Australia has won 619 Olympic medals, Sudan 1

Australia: 619 (2026 edition) · Sudan: 1 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Australia are online, versus 19% in Sudan

Australia: 96% (2024) · Sudan: 19% (2017)

Home internet in Australia is 3.3 times as fast as in Sudan

Australia: 261 Mbps (2026) · Sudan: 79 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Australia have electricity, versus 66% in Sudan

Australia: 100% (2024) · Sudan: 66% (2024)

88% of people in Australia live in cities, versus 35% in Sudan

Australia: 88% (2025) · Sudan: 35% (2025)

Australia has 113 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Sudan 70

Australia: 113 (2024) · Sudan: 70 (2022)

Australia’s railway network is 12 times as long as Sudan’s

Australia: 32,606 km (2022) · Sudan: 2,747 km (2020)

Airlines from Australia fly 142 times as many passengers per resident as those from Sudan

Australia: 2.5 (2023) · Sudan: 0.02 (2023)

Forest covers 17% of Australia, but only 12% of Sudan

Australia: 17.4% (2024) · Sudan: 11.9% (2024)

The average person in Australia emits 41 times as much CO₂ as someone in Sudan

Australia: 14.5 t (2024) · Sudan: 0.4 t (2024)

80% of Sudan’s electricity is renewable, versus 39% in Australia

Australia: 38.6% (2025) · Sudan: 79.7% (2024)

The air in Sudan carries 5.3 times as much fine dust as in Australia

Australia: 5.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Sudan: 28.8 µg/m³ (2024)

Australia: 0.9 per 100k (2023) · Sudan: no data

Roads in Sudan are 3.8 times as deadly as in Australia

Australia: 7.5 per 100k (2023) · Sudan: 28.2 per 100k (2023)

Sudan is on average 5.2 °C warmer than Australia

Australia: 22.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sudan: 27.7°C (2016–2025 avg)

Australia gets 2.6 times as much rain as Sudan

Australia: 447 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sudan: 171 mm (2016–2025 avg)