ACOG - Australia  - IBM

Geography

Location: Oceania, continent between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean

Area:
total area: 7,686,850 sq km
land area: 7,617,930 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than the US

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 25,760 km


People

Population: 18,322,231 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 22% (female 1,929,366; male 2,032,238)
15-64 years: 67% (female 6,017,362; male 6,181,887)
65 years and over: 11% (female 1,227,004; male 934,374)

Population growth rate: 1.31% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 14.13 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 7.37 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 6.33 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 7.1 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 77.78 years
male: 74.67 years
female: 81.04 years

Total fertility rate: 1.82 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Caucasian 95%, Asian 4%, aboriginal and other 1%

Religions: Anglican 26.1%, Roman Catholic 26%, other Christian 24.3%

Languages: English, native languages

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1980 est.)
total population: 100%
male: 100%
female: 100%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Commonwealth of Australia
conventional short form: Australia

Type: federal parliamentary state

Capital: Canberra

Independence: 1 January 1901 (federation of UK colonies)

Constitution: 9 July 1900, effective 1 January 1901


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $374.6 billion

National product real growth rate: 6.4%

National product per capita: $20,720

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.5%

Unemployment rate: 8.9%

Electricity:
capacity: 34,540,000 kW
production: 155 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 8,021 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts.