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

Australia: 25,760 km (2026 edition) · Thailand: 3,219 km (2026 edition)

Thailand’s highest peak towers 337 m above Australia’s

Australia: 2,228 m (2026 edition) · Thailand: 2,565 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 47% of Australia, versus 43% of Thailand

Australia: 47.3% (2024) · Thailand: 43.3% (2024)

Thailand has 2.6 times as many people as Australia

Australia: 27.6 million (2025) · Thailand: 71.6 million (2025)

Thailand is 39 times as densely populated as Australia

Australia: 4 per km² (2025) · Thailand: 140 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Thailand is 1.9 years older than in Australia

Australia: 37.8 years (2023) · Thailand: 39.7 years (2023)

Women in Australia have 0.3 more children on average than in Thailand

Australia: 1.48 children per woman (2024) · Thailand: 1.2 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in Australia are 65 or older, versus 16% in Thailand

Australia: 18.1% (2025) · Thailand: 16% (2025)

Australia hosts 3% more refugees per resident than Thailand

Australia: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Thailand: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025)

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

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

Australia and Thailand are practically level

Australia: 1 (2026) · Thailand: 1 (2026)

Australia’s economy is 3.1 times the size of Thailand’s

Australia: $1.8 trillion (2025) · Thailand: $577 billion (2025)

Australia produces 2.7 times as much per person as Thailand

Australia: Int$71,934 (2025) · Thailand: Int$26,250 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Australia than in Thailand (Gini 0.5 points higher)

Australia: 33.8 (2020) · Thailand: 33.3 (2024)

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

Australia: 0.9% (2020) · Thailand: 0% (2024)

Unemployment is 4.1% in Australia, versus 0.8% in Thailand

Australia: 4.1% (2025) · Thailand: 0.8% (2025)

Australia spends 1.9% of its GDP on the military, Thailand 1.0%

Australia: 1.9% (2025) · Thailand: 1% (2025)

Australia’s central government collects 24% of GDP in tax, Thailand’s 15%

Australia: 23.6% (2022) · Thailand: 15.2% (2024)

Australia’s price level (US = 100) is 3× Thailand’s

Australia: 91% (2025) · Thailand: 31% (2025)

Australia spends 21 times as much on health per person as Thailand

Australia: $6,980 (2023) · Thailand: $327 (2023)

A baby in Thailand is 2.5 times as likely to die before turning one as in Australia

Australia: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Thailand: 7.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Australia has 7.6 times as many doctors per person as Thailand

Australia: 4.1 per 1,000 (2022) · Thailand: 0.5 per 1,000 (2021)

Australia has 60% more hospital beds per person than Thailand

Australia: 3.8 per 1,000 (2016) · Thailand: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Australia is 31% higher than in Thailand

Australia: 12.6 per 100k (2023) · Thailand: 9.6 per 100k (2023)

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

Australia: 32.4% (2024) · Thailand: 15.5% (2024)

18% of adults in Thailand smoke, versus 12% in Australia

Australia: 11.6% (2024) · Thailand: 17.8% (2024)

People in Australia rate their lives 0.62 points higher than in Thailand

Australia: 6.92 (2025) · Thailand: 6.30 (2025)

Adults in Australia drink 33% more alcohol than in Thailand

Australia: 10.5 litres (2023) · Thailand: 7.9 litres (2023)

Australia has 4.8 times as much meat per person as Thailand

Australia: 116.8 kg (2023) · Thailand: 24.5 kg (2023)

Australia has 707 kcal more food per person per day than Thailand

Australia: 3,562 kcal (2023) · Thailand: 2,855 kcal (2023)

Workers in Thailand put in 566 more hours a year than in Australia

Australia: 1,611 hours (2023) · Thailand: 2,177 hours (2023)

Adults in Australia went to school 3.8 years longer than in Thailand

Australia: 12.9 years (2023) · Thailand: 9 years (2023)

Australia: no data · Thailand: 0.56 (2019)

Australia has 12 more World Heritage sites than Thailand (21 against 9)

Australia: 21 (2026) · Thailand: 9 (2026)

Australia has won 619 Olympic medals, Thailand 41

Australia: 619 (2026 edition) · Thailand: 41 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Australia are online, versus 91% in Thailand

Australia: 96% (2024) · Thailand: 91% (2024)

Home internet in Thailand is 38% faster than in Australia

Australia: 261 Mbps (2026) · Thailand: 360 Mbps (2026)

Australia and Thailand are practically level

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

88% of people in Australia live in cities, versus 63% in Thailand

Australia: 88% (2025) · Thailand: 63% (2025)

Thailand has 161 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Australia 113

Australia: 113 (2024) · Thailand: 161 (2024)

Australia’s railway network is 8 times as long as Thailand’s

Australia: 32,606 km (2022) · Thailand: 4,092 km (2017)

Airlines from Australia fly 3.4 times as many passengers per resident as those from Thailand

Australia: 2.5 (2023) · Thailand: 0.72 (2023)

Forest covers 39% of Thailand, but only 17% of Australia

Australia: 17.4% (2024) · Thailand: 38.7% (2024)

The average person in Australia emits 3.9 times as much CO₂ as someone in Thailand

Australia: 14.5 t (2024) · Thailand: 3.7 t (2024)

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

Australia: 38.6% (2025) · Thailand: 16.6% (2025)

The air in Thailand carries 4.3 times as much fine dust as in Australia

Australia: 5.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Thailand: 23.3 µg/m³ (2024)

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

Roads in Thailand are 4.7 times as deadly as in Australia

Australia: 7.5 per 100k (2023) · Thailand: 35.6 per 100k (2023)

Thailand is on average 4.3 °C warmer than Australia

Australia: 22.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Thailand: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Thailand gets 3.7 times as much rain as Australia

Australia: 447 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Thailand: 1,657 mm (2016–2025 avg)