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🇦🇺 Australia

Overview

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3AUS
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2AU
UN M49 numeric036
IOC codeAUS
Official nameCommonwealth of Australia
Native name(s)eng: official: Commonwealth of Australia; common: Australia
Alt spellingsAU
Statusofficially-assigned
IndependentYes
UN memberYes

Geography

RegionOceania
SubregionAustralia and New Zealand
UN regional groupWestern European and Others Group
CapitalCanberra
Area (km²)7,692,024
Lat / Lng-27.0000, 133.0000
LandlockedNo
Borders (ISO3)
Top-level domain.au
Calling coderoot: +6; suffixes: 1

Demographics

Population (World Bank)27,614,411 (2025)
Life expectancy (years, World Bank)83.051 (2024)
Languageseng: English
Demonymseng: f: Australian; m: Australian; fra: f: Australienne; m: Australien
Population time-series (UN WPP)74

Economy

GDP (current USD)1,798,518,933,689.21 (2025)
GDP per capita (current USD)65,129.723 (2025)
Unemployment rate (%)4.09 (2025)
CurrenciesAUD: name: Australian dollar; symbol: $

Population by year (UN WPP)

74 yearly data points — click to expand
YearPopulation
19508,176,750
19518,418,610
19528,630,704
19538,816,081
19548,999,383
19559,205,181
19569,424,662
19579,638,775
19589,847,637
195910,060,036
196010,280,813
196110,500,443
196210,707,236
196310,913,265
196411,128,251
196511,357,477
196611,592,485
196711,810,519
196812,030,013
196912,272,380
197012,599,411
197112,997,964
197213,304,896
197313,518,685
197413,719,495
197513,893,989
197614,046,755
197714,203,508
197814,367,098
197914,533,035
198014,721,347
198114,949,202
198215,192,485
198315,414,893
198415,620,653
198515,835,747
198616,069,633
198716,322,269
198816,594,099
198916,869,362
199017,126,298
199117,353,193
199217,549,288
199317,722,911
199417,897,433
199518,095,344
199618,305,307
199718,504,912
199818,701,717
199918,909,981
200019,132,471
200119,365,433
200219,595,355
200319,819,454
200420,046,677
200520,294,490
200620,590,559
200720,954,549
200821,370,589
200921,783,011
201022,141,581
201122,479,775
201222,852,644
201323,236,270
201423,595,601
201523,948,002
201624,329,963
201724,731,038
201825,119,706
201925,482,714
202025,743,791
202125,956,417
202226,200,984
202326,451,124

Full raw record (JSON)

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      "official": "Australian liittovaltio",
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