Quality of life comparison

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

Life

be 50.4% less likely to die during infancy

In Gibraltar, approximately 6.2 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 12.4% fewer children

In Gibraltar, there are approximately 12.2 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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Geography

see 2146.7 times more coastline

Gibraltar has a total of 12 km of coastline. In Australia, that number is 25,760 km.

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Infrastructure

use 95.4% more electricity

Gibraltar uses 5,017 kWh of electricity per person each year as of 2023. Australia uses 9,801 kWh as of 2024.

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find 40.2% less home broadband

Gibraltar has 61.0 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2022. Australia has 36.5 as of 2024.

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Environment

emit 12.7% less CO2

Gibraltar emits 16.1 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 (2022–2024), The World Factbook (2022). How we calculate this

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Cost of Living Comparison · 7 categories - 2026 data
Australia is 16.8% cheaper than Gibraltar overall
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Size Comparison · See true size
Gibraltar is about 1,190,957 times smaller than Australia.
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Moving from Gibraltar to Australia · UN DESA 2020
515 people born in Gibraltar 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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