Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Australia instead of Aruba, you would:

Health

live 6.5 years longer

In Aruba, the average life expectancy is 76 years (74 years for men, 79 years for women) as of 2024. In Australia, that number is 83 years (81 years for men, 85 years for women) as of 2024.

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Economy

make 68.8% more money

Aruba has a GDP per capita of $38,591 as of 2024, while in Australia, the GDP per capita is $65,130 as of 2025.

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Life

be 74.4% less likely to die during infancy

In Aruba, approximately 12.1 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Australia, on the other hand, 3.1 children do as of 2024.

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have 41.0% more children

In Aruba, there are approximately 7.6 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Australia, there are 10.7 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

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Expenditures

spend 39.8% more on education

Aruba spends 3.6% of its total GDP on education as of 2021. Australia spends 5.1% of total GDP on education as of 2022.

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Geography

see 376.1 times more coastline

Aruba has a total of 68 km of coastline. In Australia, that number is 25,760 km.

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Infrastructure

find 2.1 times more home broadband

Aruba has 17.5 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2022. Australia has 36.5 as of 2024.

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Environment

emit 2.7 times more CO2

Aruba emits 5.2 tonnes of CO2 per person each year as of 2024. Australia emits 14.1 tonnes as of 2024.

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Sources: World Bank (2021–2025), The World Factbook (2022). How we calculate this

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Australia is 6.6% more expensive than Aruba overall
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Size Comparison · See true size
Aruba is about 43,007 times smaller than Australia.
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Moving from Aruba to Australia · UN DESA 2020
75 people born in Aruba live in Australia.
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Australia: At a glance

Australia is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 7,682,300 sq km. Prehistoric settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia at least 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession of the east coast in the name of Great Britain (all of Australia was claimed as British territory in 1829 with the creation of the colony of Western Australia). Six colonies were created in the late 18th and 19th centuries; they federated and became the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. The new country took advantage of its natural resources to rapidly develop agricultural and manufacturing industries and to make a major contribution to the Allied effort in World Wars I and II. In recent decades, Australia has become an internationally competitive, advanced market economy due in large part to economic reforms adopted in the 1980s and its location in one of the fastest growing regions of the world economy. Long-term concerns include aging of the population, pressure on infrastructure, and environmental issues such as floods, droughts, and bushfires. Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth, making it particularly vulnerable to the challenges of climate change. Australia is home to 10 per cent of the world's biodiversity, and a great number of its flora and fauna exist nowhere else in the world. In January 2013, Australia assumed a nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2013-14 term.
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