Australia’s coastline is 18 times as long as Tanzania’s

Australia: 25,760 km (2026 edition) · Tanzania: 1,424 km (2026 edition)

Tanzania’s highest peak towers 3,667 m above Australia’s

Australia: 2,228 m (2026 edition) · Tanzania: 5,895 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 47% of Australia, versus 45% of Tanzania

Australia: 47.3% (2024) · Tanzania: 45.1% (2024)

Tanzania has 2.6 times as many people as Australia

Australia: 27.6 million (2025) · Tanzania: 70.5 million (2025)

Tanzania is 22 times as densely populated as Australia

Australia: 4 per km² (2025) · Tanzania: 80 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Australia is 21 years older than in Tanzania

Australia: 37.8 years (2023) · Tanzania: 17.2 years (2023)

Women in Tanzania have 3.1 more children on average than in Australia

Australia: 1.48 children per woman (2024) · Tanzania: 4.54 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in Australia are 65 or older, versus 3.0% in Tanzania

Australia: 18.1% (2025) · Tanzania: 3% (2025)

Tanzania hosts 2 times as many refugees per resident as Australia

Australia: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Tanzania: 2.4 per 1,000 (2025)

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

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

Tanzania has 2 official languages, Australia 1

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

Australia’s economy is 20 times the size of Tanzania’s

Australia: $1.8 trillion (2025) · Tanzania: $90.1 billion (2025)

Australia produces 16 times as much per person as Tanzania

Australia: Int$71,934 (2025) · Tanzania: Int$4,471 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Tanzania than in Australia (Gini 6.7 points higher)

Australia: 33.8 (2020) · Tanzania: 40.5 (2018)

51% of people in Tanzania live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.9% in Australia

Australia: 0.9% (2020) · Tanzania: 51.3% (2018)

Unemployment is 4.1% in Australia, versus 1.6% in Tanzania

Australia: 4.1% (2025) · Tanzania: 1.6% (2025)

Australia spends 1.9% of its GDP on the military, Tanzania 1.2%

Australia: 1.9% (2025) · Tanzania: 1.2% (2025)

Australia’s central government collects 24% of GDP in tax, Tanzania’s 12%

Australia: 23.6% (2022) · Tanzania: 12.3% (2024)

Australia’s price level (US = 100) is 3.1× Tanzania’s

Australia: 91% (2025) · Tanzania: 29% (2025)

Australia spends 193 times as much on health per person as Tanzania

Australia: $6,980 (2023) · Tanzania: $36 (2023)

A baby in Tanzania is 9.3 times as likely to die before turning one as in Australia

Australia: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Tanzania: 28.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Australia has 30 times as many doctors per person as Tanzania

Australia: 4.1 per 1,000 (2022) · Tanzania: 0.1 per 1,000 (2022)

Australia has 4.5 times as many hospital beds per person as Tanzania

Australia: 3.8 per 1,000 (2016) · Tanzania: 0.8 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Tanzania is 18% higher than in Australia

Australia: 12.6 per 100k (2023) · Tanzania: 14.9 per 100k (2023)

32% of adults in Australia are obese, versus 10% in Tanzania

Australia: 32.4% (2024) · Tanzania: 10.5% (2024)

12% of adults in Australia smoke, versus 7.7% in Tanzania

Australia: 11.6% (2024) · Tanzania: 7.7% (2024)

People in Australia rate their lives 3.01 points higher than in Tanzania

Australia: 6.92 (2025) · Tanzania: 3.90 (2025)

Adults in Australia drink 7 times as much alcohol as in Tanzania

Australia: 10.5 litres (2023) · Tanzania: 1.5 litres (2023)

Australia has 9.6 times as much meat per person as Tanzania

Australia: 116.8 kg (2023) · Tanzania: 12.2 kg (2023)

Australia has 1,044 kcal more food per person per day than Tanzania

Australia: 3,562 kcal (2023) · Tanzania: 2,518 kcal (2023)

Workers in Tanzania put in 518 more hours a year than in Australia

Australia: 1,611 hours (2023) · Tanzania: 2,129 hours (2023)

Adults in Australia went to school 6.8 years longer than in Tanzania

Australia: 12.9 years (2023) · Tanzania: 6.1 years (2023)

Australia: no data · Tanzania: 0.02 (2022)

Australia has 14 more World Heritage sites than Tanzania (21 against 7)

Australia: 21 (2026) · Tanzania: 7 (2026)

Australia has won 619 Olympic medals, Tanzania 2

Australia: 619 (2026 edition) · Tanzania: 2 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Australia are online, versus 31% in Tanzania

Australia: 96% (2024) · Tanzania: 31% (2024)

Home internet in Australia is 4.6 times as fast as in Tanzania

Australia: 261 Mbps (2026) · Tanzania: 56 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Australia have electricity, versus 52% in Tanzania

Australia: 100% (2024) · Tanzania: 52.4% (2024)

88% of people in Australia live in cities, versus 37% in Tanzania

Australia: 88% (2025) · Tanzania: 37% (2025)

Tanzania has 127 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Australia 113

Australia: 113 (2024) · Tanzania: 127 (2024)

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

Australia: 32,606 km (2022) · Tanzania: 2,701 km (2017)

Airlines from Australia fly 92 times as many passengers per resident as those from Tanzania

Australia: 2.5 (2023) · Tanzania: 0.03 (2023)

Forest covers 50% of Tanzania, but only 17% of Australia

Australia: 17.4% (2024) · Tanzania: 49.6% (2024)

The average person in Australia emits 50 times as much CO₂ as someone in Tanzania

Australia: 14.5 t (2024) · Tanzania: 0.3 t (2024)

39% of Australia’s electricity is renewable, versus 33% in Tanzania

Australia: 38.6% (2025) · Tanzania: 32.9% (2024)

The air in Tanzania carries 4.6 times as much fine dust as in Australia

Australia: 5.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Tanzania: 24.6 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 4.4 times as likely to be murdered in Tanzania as in Australia

Australia: 0.9 per 100k (2023) · Tanzania: 3.7 per 100k (2020)

Roads in Tanzania are 2.7 times as deadly as in Australia

Australia: 7.5 per 100k (2023) · Tanzania: 20.1 per 100k (2023)

Tanzania is on average 0.6 °C warmer than Australia

Australia: 22.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Tanzania: 23.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

Tanzania gets 2.5 times as much rain as Australia

Australia: 447 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Tanzania: 1,102 mm (2016–2025 avg)