Australia vs Canada statistics compared

Australia has a population of 27.2M (ranked 54/197), compared with 41.3M in Canada (ranked 37/197). Australia's land area is 2,969,906 sq mi versus 3,393,336 sq mi for Canada (ranked 6th vs. 4th).

By GDP, Australia ranks 13/197 ($1.75T) and Canada ranks 9/197 ($2.24T). By GDP per capita, Australia ranks 14/197 ($64,407), while Canada ranks 19/197 ($54,283).

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Australia and Canada economies compared

GDP

Australia

Canada

Table

Year	GDP
	Australia	Canada
1960	$18,607,682,977	$40,563,768,947
1961	$19,684,003,149	$41,038,192,838
1962	$19,923,683,188	$42,336,211,556
1963	$21,540,963,447	$45,140,337,827
1964	$23,801,123,808	$49,503,663,836
1965	$25,977,284,156	$54,649,410,479
1966	$27,308,964,369	$61,252,415,405
1967	$30,442,724,871	$65,856,924,424
1968	$32,714,085,234	$72,048,833,006
1969	$36,684,485,870	$79,405,011,125
1970	$41,334,726,614	$88,192,257,632
1971	$45,217,767,235	$99,606,454,744
1972	$52,042,056,075	$113,463,848,874
1973	$63,833,440,102	$131,764,343,566
1974	$88,965,364,775	$160,949,188,139
1975	$97,304,383,449	$174,419,757,177
1976	$105,060,616,985	$207,271,612,576
1977	$110,352,144,987	$212,325,176,305
1978	$118,492,761,338	$219,369,542,386
1979	$134,900,602,067	$243,891,124,296
1980	$149,987,743,733	$274,776,566,028
1981	$176,895,390,688	$307,246,642,756
1982	$194,041,708,044	$314,647,807,409
1983	$177,267,290,706	$341,866,277,183
1984	$193,525,337,526	$356,718,400,124
1985	$180,643,265,927	$366,186,012,450
1986	$182,481,113,598	$379,006,836,992
1987	$189,495,764,955	$433,134,238,311
1988	$236,161,314,544	$509,380,027,627
1989	$299,875,906,679	$567,211,993,243
1990	$311,426,665,220	$596,075,591,361
1991	$325,975,319,456	$612,527,712,316
1992	$325,525,379,567	$594,387,358,319
1993	$312,133,923,553	$579,053,561,739
1994	$322,806,641,301	$579,944,346,807
1995	$368,166,023,166	$605,961,090,061
1996	$401,341,880,621	$630,607,994,133
1997	$435,642,611,297	$654,986,999,856
1998	$399,674,421,759	$634,000,000,000
1999	$389,652,212,057	$678,412,196,271
2000	$416,167,815,093	$744,773,415,932
2001	$379,629,301,675	$738,981,792,355
2002	$395,788,696,012	$760,649,334,098
2003	$467,739,079,790	$895,540,646,635
2004	$614,659,980,083	$1,026,690,238,278
2005	$695,692,898,677	$1,173,108,598,779
2006	$748,417,562,770	$1,319,264,809,591
2007	$855,007,458,585	$1,468,820,407,783
2008	$1,056,112,427,190	$1,552,989,690,722
2009	$928,762,122,698	$1,374,625,142,157
2010	$1,148,838,233,481	$1,617,343,367,486
2011	$1,398,610,616,773	$1,793,326,630,175
2012	$1,547,532,281,116	$1,828,366,481,522
2013	$1,577,123,329,411	$1,846,597,421,835
2014	$1,468,265,356,428	$1,805,749,878,440
2015	$1,351,296,372,254	$1,556,508,816,217
2016	$1,206,836,962,282	$1,527,994,741,907
2017	$1,325,582,658,157	$1,649,265,644,244
2018	$1,427,809,041,019	$1,725,329,192,783
2019	$1,392,723,834,563	$1,743,725,183,673
2020	$1,328,414,058,378	$1,655,684,730,000
2021	$1,556,735,770,437	$2,022,378,748,423
2022	$1,690,858,246,994	$2,190,411,080,134
2023	$1,728,057,316,696	$2,173,339,670,064
2024	$1,752,193,307,380	$2,241,253,230,970

Australia and Canada economies compared

GDP per capita

Australia

Canada

Table

Year	GDP per capita
	Australia	Canada
1960	$1,811	$2,265
1961	$1,878	$2,246
1962	$1,855	$2,274
1963	$1,967	$2,380
1964	$2,131	$2,562
1965	$2,281	$2,777
1966	$2,344	$3,055
1967	$2,580	$3,226
1968	$2,724	$3,473
1969	$2,991	$3,776
1970	$3,305	$4,136
1971	$3,495	$4,535
1972	$3,949	$5,107
1973	$4,771	$5,858
1974	$6,483	$7,057
1975	$7,004	$7,537
1976	$7,487	$8,839
1977	$7,776	$8,949
1978	$8,253	$9,154
1979	$9,295	$10,078
1980	$10,209	$11,208
1981	$11,854	$12,379
1982	$12,779	$12,527
1983	$11,516	$13,477
1984	$12,422	$13,930
1985	$11,442	$14,170
1986	$11,392	$14,521
1987	$11,651	$16,378
1988	$14,285	$19,013
1989	$17,834	$20,795
1990	$18,249	$21,526
1991	$18,860	$21,847
1992	$18,624	$20,950
1993	$17,700	$20,187
1994	$18,130	$19,998
1995	$20,448	$20,680
1996	$22,022	$21,297
1997	$23,647	$21,902
1998	$21,479	$21,025
1999	$20,713	$22,315
2000	$21,870	$24,271
2001	$19,696	$23,822
2002	$20,302	$24,256
2003	$23,718	$28,302
2004	$30,837	$32,146
2005	$34,480	$36,384
2006	$36,596	$40,504
2007	$41,052	$44,660
2008	$49,701	$46,710
2009	$42,817	$40,875
2010	$52,145	$47,561
2011	$62,606	$52,224
2012	$68,073	$52,670
2013	$68,191	$52,638
2014	$62,544	$50,961
2015	$56,739	$43,594
2016	$49,888	$42,314
2017	$53,902	$45,130
2018	$57,196	$46,539
2019	$54,973	$46,353
2020	$51,792	$43,538
2021	$60,608	$52,887
2022	$64,997	$56,257
2023	$64,836	$54,220
2024	$64,407	$54,283

Australia vs. Canada life expectancy calculator

Life expectancy

Australia

Canada

Table

Year	Life expectancy, years
	Australia	Canada
1950	69	68.2
1951	68.7	68.5
1952	69.1	68.7
1953	69.7	69.1
1954	69.9	69.9
1955	70.2	70
1956	70	70
1957	70.3	69.9
1958	70.9	70.6
1959	70.4	70.6
1960	70.9	71
1961	71.1	71.2
1962	70.9	71.2
1963	71	71.3
1964	70.6	71.6
1965	70.8	71.7
1966	70.7	71.9
1967	71	72.1
1968	70.7	72.2
1969	71.1	72.4
1970	70.7	72.6
1971	71.5	72.9
1972	71.8	72.8
1973	72.1	73.1
1974	71.8	73.1
1975	72.8	73.4
1976	72.8	73.9
1977	73.5	74.2
1978	73.7	74.5
1979	74.3	74.8
1980	74.6	75.1
1981	74.8	75.5
1982	74.7	75.7
1983	75.4	76.1
1984	75.5	76.4
1985	75.4	76.3
1986	76.1	76.5
1987	76.1	76.8
1988	76.3	76.9
1989	76.2	77.1
1990	77	77.4
1991	77.5	77.6
1992	77.5	77.9
1993	78	77.7
1994	77.9	77.9
1995	78.3	78
1996	78.3	78.3
1997	78.6	78.5
1998	79	78.7
1999	79.3	78.9
2000	79.6	79.2
2001	80	79.4
2002	80.1	79.6
2003	80.4	79.7
2004	80.7	80
2005	81.1	80.1
2006	81.3	80.5
2007	81.2	80.5
2008	81.4	80.7
2009	81.7	81.1
2010	82	81.3
2011	82.1	81.5
2012	82.3	81.7
2013	82.6	81.8
2014	82.5	81.8
2015	82.6	81.9
2016	82.8	82
2017	82.7	81.9
2018	83.3	81.9
2019	83.2	82.3
2020	83.7	81.7
2021	83.6	82
2022	82.8	81.2
2023	83.9	82.6
2024	84.1	82.7
2025	84.2	82.9

Australia and Canada population clocks and comparison

Population

Australia

Canada

Table

Year	Population
	Australia	Canada
1960	10,276,477	17,909,356
1961	10,483,000	18,271,000
1962	10,742,000	18,614,000
1963	10,950,000	18,964,000
1964	11,167,000	19,325,000
1965	11,388,000	19,678,000
1966	11,651,000	20,048,000
1967	11,799,000	20,412,000
1968	12,009,000	20,744,000
1969	12,263,000	21,028,000
1970	12,507,000	21,324,000
1971	12,937,000	21,962,032
1972	13,177,000	22,218,463
1973	13,380,000	22,491,777
1974	13,723,000	22,807,969
1975	13,893,000	23,143,275
1976	14,033,000	23,449,808
1977	14,192,000	23,725,843
1978	14,358,000	23,963,203
1979	14,514,000	24,201,544
1980	14,692,000	24,515,667
1981	14,923,260	24,819,915
1982	15,184,247	25,116,942
1983	15,393,472	25,366,451
1984	15,579,391	25,607,053
1985	15,788,312	25,842,116
1986	16,018,350	26,100,278
1987	16,263,874	26,446,601
1988	16,532,164	26,791,747
1989	16,814,416	27,276,781
1990	17,065,128	27,691,138
1991	17,284,036	28,037,420
1992	17,478,635	28,371,264
1993	17,634,808	28,684,764
1994	17,805,468	29,000,663
1995	18,004,882	29,302,311
1996	18,224,767	29,610,218
1997	18,423,037	29,905,948
1998	18,607,584	30,155,173
1999	18,812,264	30,401,286
2000	19,028,802	30,685,730
2001	19,274,701	31,020,855
2002	19,495,210	31,359,199
2003	19,720,737	31,642,461
2004	19,932,722	31,938,807
2005	20,176,844	32,242,732
2006	20,450,966	32,571,193
2007	20,827,622	32,888,886
2008	21,249,199	33,247,298
2009	21,691,653	33,630,069
2010	22,031,750	34,005,902
2011	22,340,024	34,339,221
2012	22,733,465	34,713,395
2013	23,128,129	35,080,992
2014	23,475,686	35,434,066
2015	23,815,995	35,704,498
2016	24,190,907	36,110,803
2017	24,592,588	36,545,075
2018	24,963,258	37,072,620
2019	25,334,826	37,618,495
2020	25,649,248	38,028,638
2021	25,685,412	38,239,864
2022	26,014,399	38,935,934
2023	26,652,777	40,083,484
2024	27,204,809	41,288,599

Fertility rates in Australia and Canada

Fertility rate

Australia

Canada

Table

Year	Fertility rate
	Australia	Canada
1960	3.45	3.81
1961	3.54	3.75
1962	3.44	3.68
1963	3.33	3.61
1964	3.15	3.46
1965	2.98	3.12
1966	2.88	2.75
1967	2.85	2.53
1968	2.89	2.39
1969	2.89	2.33
1970	2.86	2.26
1971	2.96	2.14
1972	2.74	1.98
1973	2.49	1.89
1974	2.4	1.84
1975	2.15	1.82
1976	2.06	1.8
1977	2.01	1.78
1978	1.95	1.77
1979	1.91	1.75
1980	1.89	1.74
1981	1.94	1.7
1982	1.93	1.69
1983	1.92	1.68
1984	1.84	1.65
1985	1.92	1.67
1986	1.87	1.68
1987	1.85	1.68
1988	1.83	1.68
1989	1.84	1.77
1990	1.9	1.83
1991	1.85	1.72
1992	1.89	1.71
1993	1.86	1.69
1994	1.84	1.69
1995	1.82	1.67
1996	1.8	1.63
1997	1.78	1.57
1998	1.76	1.56
1999	1.76	1.55
2000	1.76	1.51
2001	1.74	1.54
2002	1.76	1.52
2003	1.75	1.55
2004	1.77	1.56
2005	1.81	1.58
2006	1.91	1.63
2007	1.96	1.67
2008	1.98	1.7
2009	1.97	1.69
2010	1.93	1.65
2011	1.93	1.63
2012	1.92	1.63
2013	1.86	1.61
2014	1.83	1.61
2015	1.81	1.6
2016	1.75	1.59
2017	1.74	1.55
2018	1.74	1.51
2019	1.66	1.47
2020	1.58	1.41
2021	1.7	1.44
2022	1.63	1.33
2023	1.5	1.26

Australia and Canada demographics compared

Median age

Australia

Canada

Table

Year	Median age, years
	Australia	Canada
1960	29.5	26.4
1961	29.3	26.3
1962	29.1	26
1963	28.8	25.8
1964	28.6	25.6
1965	28.3	25.5
1966	28.1	25.5
1967	28	25.5
1968	27.9	25.7
1969	27.8	25.8
1970	27.7	26
1971	27.7	26.3
1972	27.7	26.6
1973	27.8	26.9
1974	28	27.2
1975	28.1	27.4
1976	28.4	27.7
1977	28.6	28.1
1978	28.9	28.5
1979	29.1	28.8
1980	29.4	29.2
1981	29.6	29.5
1982	29.9	29.8
1983	30.2	30.2
1984	30.5	30.6
1985	30.8	31
1986	31.1	31.4
1987	31.3	31.8
1988	31.6	32.2
1989	31.8	32.5
1990	32.1	32.9
1991	32.4	33.2
1992	32.7	33.6
1993	33	33.9
1994	33.3	34.3
1995	33.6	34.7
1996	34	35.1
1997	34.3	35.5
1998	34.7	36
1999	35.1	36.4
2000	35.4	36.7
2001	35.6	37.1
2002	35.8	37.4
2003	36.1	37.8
2004	36.3	38.1
2005	36.5	38.5
2006	36.7	38.8
2007	36.8	39.1
2008	36.8	39.3
2009	36.9	39.5
2010	37	39.7
2011	37.1	39.9
2012	37.2	40.1
2013	37.2	40.3
2014	37.3	40.5
2015	37.3	40.6
2016	37.3	40.7
2017	37.4	40.8
2018	37.4	40.8
2019	37.6	40.8
2020	38	40.9
2021	38.3	41.1
2022	38.5	41.3
2023	38.8	41.4
2024	39	41.5

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