Australia’s coastline is 8 times as long as Sweden’s

Australia: 25,760 km (2026 edition) · Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition)

Australia’s highest peak towers 128 m above Sweden’s

Australia: 2,228 m (2026 edition) · Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 47% of Australia, versus 7.3% of Sweden

Australia: 47.3% (2024) · Sweden: 7.3% (2024)

Australia has 2.6 times as many people as Sweden

Australia: 27.6 million (2025) · Sweden: 10.6 million (2025)

Sweden is 7.2 times as densely populated as Australia

Australia: 4 per km² (2025) · Sweden: 26 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sweden is 2.2 years older than in Australia

Australia: 37.8 years (2023) · Sweden: 39.9 years (2023)

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

Australia: 1.48 children per woman (2024) · Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Sweden are 65 or older, versus 18% in Australia

Australia: 18.1% (2025) · Sweden: 20.9% (2025)

Sweden hosts 11 times as many refugees per resident as Australia

Australia: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Sweden has produced 28.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Australia 3.6

Australia: 3.6 (2026) · Sweden: 28.3 (2026)

Australia and Sweden are practically level

Australia: 1 (2026) · Sweden: 1 (2026)

Australia’s economy is 2.7 times the size of Sweden’s

Australia: $1.8 trillion (2025) · Sweden: $669 billion (2025)

Sweden and Australia are nearly identical here

Australia: Int$71,934 (2025) · Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Australia than in Sweden (Gini 4.5 points higher)

Australia: 33.8 (2020) · Sweden: 29.3 (2023)

Australia and Sweden are practically level

Australia: 0.9% (2020) · Sweden: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.7% in Sweden, versus 4.1% in Australia

Australia: 4.1% (2025) · Sweden: 8.7% (2025)

Sweden spends 2.5% of its GDP on the military, Australia 1.9%

Australia: 1.9% (2025) · Sweden: 2.5% (2025)

Sweden’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, Australia’s 24%

Australia: 23.6% (2022) · Sweden: 27.2% (2024)

Australia’s price level (US = 100) is 1× Sweden’s

Australia: 91% (2025) · Sweden: 87% (2025)

Australia spends 8% more on health per person than Sweden

Australia: $6,980 (2023) · Sweden: $6,485 (2024)

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

Australia: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Sweden: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Sweden has 8% more doctors per person than Australia

Australia: 4.1 per 1,000 (2022) · Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021)

Australia has 2 times as many hospital beds per person as Sweden

Australia: 3.8 per 1,000 (2016) · Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022)

Sweden and Australia are nearly identical here

Australia: 12.6 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023)

32% of adults in Australia are obese, versus 19% in Sweden

Australia: 32.4% (2024) · Sweden: 18.7% (2024)

20% of adults in Sweden smoke, versus 12% in Australia

Australia: 11.6% (2024) · Sweden: 20.3% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 0.34 points higher than in Australia

Australia: 6.92 (2025) · Sweden: 7.26 (2025)

Adults in Australia drink 21% more alcohol than in Sweden

Australia: 10.5 litres (2023) · Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023)

Australia has 71% more meat per person than Sweden

Australia: 116.8 kg (2023) · Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023)

Australia has 195 kcal more food per person per day than Sweden

Australia: 3,562 kcal (2023) · Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023)

Workers in Australia put in 180 more hours a year than in Sweden

Australia: 1,611 hours (2023) · Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023)

Adults in Australia went to school 0.13 years longer than in Sweden

Australia: 12.9 years (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 years (2023)

Australia: no data · Sweden: 0.63 (2022)

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

Australia: 21 (2026) · Sweden: 15 (2026)

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, Australia 619

Australia: 619 (2026 edition) · Sweden: 709 (2026 edition)

Australia and Sweden are practically level

Australia: 96% (2024) · Sweden: 96% (2025)

Home internet in Australia is 5% faster than in Sweden

Australia: 261 Mbps (2026) · Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026)

Australia and Sweden are practically level

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

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 88% in Australia

Australia: 88% (2025) · Sweden: 89% (2025)

Sweden has 141 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Australia 113

Australia: 113 (2024) · Sweden: 141 (2024)

Australia’s railway network is 3.4 times as long as Sweden’s

Australia: 32,606 km (2022) · Sweden: 9,714 km (2021)

Airlines from Australia fly 35% more passengers per resident than those from Sweden

Australia: 2.5 (2023) · Sweden: 1.85 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 17% of Australia

Australia: 17.4% (2024) · Sweden: 68.6% (2024)

The average person in Australia emits 4 times as much CO₂ as someone in Sweden

Australia: 14.5 t (2024) · Sweden: 3.6 t (2024)

71% of Sweden’s electricity is renewable, versus 39% in Australia

Australia: 38.6% (2025) · Sweden: 71.2% (2025)

The air in Sweden carries 6% more fine dust than in Australia

Australia: 5.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 34% more likely to be murdered in Sweden than in Australia

Australia: 0.9 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Australia are 2.2 times as deadly as in Sweden

Australia: 7.5 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023)

Australia is on average 18.1 °C warmer than Sweden

Australia: 22.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Sweden gets 79% more rain than Australia

Australia: 447 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg)