Quality of life comparison

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

Health

live 3.5 years less

In Monaco, the average life expectancy is 86 years (85 years for men, 89 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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see 21.5% less spent on your healthcare

Monaco spends $9,797 per person on healthcare as of 2023 (international dollars, adjusted for prices). Australia spends $7,691 as of 2023.

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have 52.5% fewer doctors per person

Monaco has 86.1 doctors per 10,000 people as of 2020. Australia has 40.9 as of 2022.

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Economy

make 77.4% less money

Monaco has a GDP per capita of $288,002 as of 2024, while in Australia, the GDP per capita is $65,130 as of 2025.

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Life

be 60.0% less likely to die during childbirth

In Monaco, approximately 5.0 women die from pregnancy or childbirth per 100,000 live births as of 2023. In Australia, 2.0 women do as of 2023.

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have 11.9% more children

In Monaco, there are approximately 9.6 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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be 40.9% more likely to die during infancy

In Monaco, approximately 2.2 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2024. In Australia, on the other hand, 3.1 children do as of 2024.

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Expenditures

spend 2.9 times more on education

Monaco spends 1.7% of its total GDP on education as of 2023. Australia spends 5.1% of total GDP on education as of 2022.

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spend 3.3 times more on healthcare

Monaco spends 3.1% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2023. In Australia, that number is 10.4% of GDP as of 2023.

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Geography

see 6282.9 times more coastline

Monaco has a total of 4 km of coastline. In Australia, that number is 25,760 km.

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Infrastructure

find 34.5% less home broadband

Monaco has 55.7 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2024. Australia has 36.5 as of 2024.

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Sources: World Bank (2020–2025), The World Factbook. How we calculate this

Compare further: Monaco vs. Australia

Cost of Living Comparison · 7 categories - 2026 data
Australia is 54.6% cheaper than Monaco overall
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Size Comparison · See true size
Monaco is about 3,870,610 times smaller than Australia.
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Moving from Monaco to Australia · OECD 2019
2 people moved from Monaco to 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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