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IndicatorAUSAustraliaEast Asia & Pacific
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.91rank #22
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile85.3rank #10
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.77rank #12
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.73rank #15
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.92rank #18
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile86.5rank #9
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.91rank #22
Military spending% GDP1.9%rank #65
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.65rank #5
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile79.4rank #47
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile82rank #9
Rule of Law0-100 percentile82.3rank #17
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.99rank #4
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.84rank #11
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.79rank #11
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile83.3rank #11
Women in parliament% seats46%rank #9
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.91rank #19
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment2.2%rank #152
Agriculture value added% GDP2.3%rank #125
Annual working hours per workerhours1,611.1rank #104
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker456,067.1rank #26
Current account balance% GDP-2.7%rank #61
Employment-to-population ratio%63.4%rank #45
FDI net inflows% GDP2%rank #46
GDPcurrent US$1.8Trank #15
GDP growth%1.4%rank #149
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$65,129.7rank #12
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $60,194.1rank #23
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $58,276.9rank #21
Government expenditure% GDP27.6%rank #60
Gross capital formation% GDP24.5%rank #52
Gross savings% GDP22.2%rank #46
High-technology exports% manuf. exports25.2%rank #19
Human capital indexindex3.5rank #21
Industry value added% GDP23.9%rank #89
Inflation%2.9%rank #82
Labour force participation rate%66.1%rank #50
Personal remittances received% GDP0.11%rank #85
R&D expenditure% GDP1.9%rank #22
Researchers in R&Dper million4,568.6rank #10
Tax revenue% GDP23.6%rank #19
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.84rank #26
Trade openness% GDP45.9%rank #113
Unemployment% labor force4.1%rank #68
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%4.1%rank #69
Vulnerable employment% employment9.1%rank #32
Youth unemployment% ages 15-249.6%rank #69
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-249.5%rank #65
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop100%rank #15
Basic sanitation access% pop100%rank #1
Child mortalityper 1000.36rank #13
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,561.9rank #16
DTP3 immunization coverage%93%rank #7
Health spending% GDP10.4%rank #24
Infant mortalityper 1k births3.1rank #15
Life expectancyyears83.1rank #22
Maternal mortalityper 100k2rank #2
Measles immunization% children91%rank #9
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%91%rank #9
Physiciansper 1k4.1rank #24
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m36.4rank #20
Road traffic deathsper 100k4.9rank #17
Smoking prevalence% adults11.6%rank #32
Suicide mortality rateper 100k13.1rank #136
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k6.9rank #33
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births3.6rank #25
Undernourishment% pop2.5%rank #1
Education
Education spending% GDP5.1%rank #48
Expected years of schoolingyears20.7rank #3
Mean years of schoolingyears12.9rank #21
Primary enrollment% gross99.6%rank #65
Secondary enrollment% gross131.9%rank #4
Tertiary enrollment% gross108.4%rank #7
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00010.7rank #139
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.5rank #152
Median age of populationyears37.8rank #66
Net migration rateper 1,0005.3rank #34
Populationpeople27.61Mrank #55
Population growth%1.5%rank #69
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years87.2rank #9
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands32,507rank #60
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age54.8rank #107
Urban population%87.7%rank #30
Climate
CO₂ emissionst386.73Mrank #16
CO₂ per capitat14.5rank #11
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation42.7%rank #48
Electricity from hydro% generation4.3%rank #60
Electricity from solar% generation19.7%rank #12
Electricity from wind% generation13.7%rank #21
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita9,801rank #9
Forest area% land17.4%rank #137
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita24.5rank #185
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh524.6rank #66
Renewable electricity%38.6%rank #46
Renewable energy share%12.3%rank #120
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e652.2rank #178
Society
Asylum seekerspeople31rank #12
Extreme poverty% pop0.9%rank #9
Female labor participation%62.5%rank #32
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10036.5rank #31
Gender Development Indexratio0.98rank #45
Gender Inequality Index0-10.06rank #18
Gini indexindex33.8rank #30
Homicide rateper 100k0.85rank #24
Human Development Index0-10.96rank #5
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.87rank #9
Internet users% pop96.1%rank #17
Life satisfaction0-106.9rank #15
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.7rank #51
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #115
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #62
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #56
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #43
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people33,415rank #73
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people41rank #16
Youth NEET rate%8.7%rank #27
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year1rank #1
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-102.9rank #24
Human hazard & exposure0-100.6rank #7
INFORM risk score0-102.4rank #13
Lack of coping capacity0-102.4rank #16
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-101.6rank #13
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-103.2rank #15
Natural hazard & exposure0-104.7rank #34
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year2rank #2
Socio-economic vulnerability0-100.4rank #5
Vulnerability0-102.1rank #10
Vulnerable groups0-103.6rank #31
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