Quality of life comparison

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

Health

live 5.6 years longer

In Guam, the average life expectancy is 77 years (74 years for men, 82 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

be 26.6% less likely to be unemployed

In Guam, 5.6% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Australia, that number is 4.1% as of 2025.

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make 55.7% more money

Guam has a GDP per capita of $41,833 as of 2022, while in Australia, the GDP per capita is $65,130 as of 2025.

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Life

be 72.9% less likely to die during infancy

In Guam, approximately 11.5 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 38.3% fewer children

In Guam, there are approximately 17.3 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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Basic Needs

be 19.4% more likely to have internet access

In Guam, approximately 80.5% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Australia, about 96.1% do as of 2024.

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Geography

see 205.3 times more coastline

Guam has a total of 126 km of coastline. In Australia, that number is 25,760 km.

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Infrastructure

find 19.8 times more home broadband

Guam has 1.8 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2022. Australia has 36.5 as of 2024.

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

Compare further: Guam vs. Australia

Cost of Living Comparison · 6 categories - 2026 data
Australia is 20.8% cheaper than Guam overall
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Size Comparison · See true size
Guam is about 14,230 times smaller than Australia.
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Moving from Guam to Australia · UN DESA 2020
127 people born in Guam 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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