Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Australia instead of Faroe Islands, you would:

Economy

make 12.2% less money

Faroe Islands has a GDP per capita of $74,175 as of 2024, while in Australia, the GDP per capita is $65,130 as of 2025.

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Life

be 48.2% less likely to die during infancy

In Faroe Islands, approximately 6.0 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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Expenditures

spend 33.4% less on education

Faroe Islands spends 7.6% of its total GDP on education as of 2019. Australia spends 5.1% of total GDP on education as of 2022.

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Geography

see 23.1 times more coastline

Faroe Islands has a total of 1,117 km of coastline. In Australia, that number is 25,760 km.

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Environment

emit 352.5 times more CO2

Faroe Islands emits 0.0 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 (2022–2025), The World Factbook (2019–2022). How we calculate this

Compare further: Faroe Islands vs. Australia

Cost of Living Comparison · 7 categories - 2026 data
Australia is 2.2% more expensive than Faroe Islands overall
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Size Comparison · See true size
Faroe Islands is about 5,557 times smaller than Australia.
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Moving from Faroe Islands to Australia · UN DESA 2020
20 people born in Faroe Islands 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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