Quality of life comparison

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

Health

be 27.0% less likely to be obese

In Mississippi, 41.9% of adults are obese as of 2022. In Australia, that number is 30.6% of people as of 2024.

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Economy

be 27.2% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Mississippi, 18.4% live below the poverty line as of 2023. In Australia, however, that number is 13.4% as of 2020.

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make 55.9% more money

Mississippi has a GDP per capita of $41,778 as of 2024, while in Australia, the GDP per capita is $65,130 as of 2025.

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be 31.9% more likely to be unemployed

In Mississippi, 3.1% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Australia, that number is 4.1% as of 2025.

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Basic Needs

be 17.2% more likely to have internet access

In Mississippi, approximately 82.0% of the population has internet access as of 2023. In Australia, about 96.1% do as of 2024.

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Sources: World Bank (2024–2025), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (PLACES) (2022), World Health Organization (2024), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), The World Factbook (2020), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this

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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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