| Australia : Geographic coordinates |
27 00 S, 133 00 E |
| Australia : Population growth rate |
1.171% (2010 est.) |
| Australia : Birth rate |
12.39 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) |
| Australia : Death rate |
6.81 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.) |
| Australia : People living with HIV/AIDS |
18,000 (2007 est.) |
| Australia : Independence |
1 January 1901 |
| Australia : National holiday |
Australia Day, 26 January |
| Australia : Constitution |
9 July 1900 |
| Australia : GDP |
purchasing power parity - $824.3 billion (2009 est.) |
| Australia : GDP - per capita |
purchasing power parity - $38,800 (2009 est.) |
| Australia : Electricity - consumption |
222 billion kWh (2007 est.) |
| Australia : Exports |
$69 billion coal, gold, meat, wool, alumina, iron ore, wheat. |
| Australia : Imports |
$77 billion machinery and transport equipment, computers and office machines. |
| Australia : Telephones |
9.37 million (2008) |
| Australia : Mobile cellular |
22.12 million (2008) |
| Australia : Radio broadcast stations |
AM 262, FM 345, shortwave 1 |
| Australia : Radios |
25.5 million |
| Australia : Television broadcast stations |
104 |
| Australia : Televisions |
10.15 million |
| Australia : Internet country code |
.au |
| Australia : Internet Service Providers (ISPs) |
11.756 million (2009) |
| Australia : Internet users |
15.17 million (2008) |
| Australia : Railways |
37,855 km |
| Australia : Highways |
812,972 km |
| Australia : Waterways |
2,000 km (mainly used for recreation on Murray and Murray-Darling river systems) (2006) |
| Australia : Pipelines |
gas 27,105 km; liquid petroleum gas 240 km; oil 3,258 km; oil/gas/water 1 km (2009) |
| Australia : Ports and harbors |
Brisbane, Dampier, Fremantle, Gladstone, Hay Point, Melbourne, Newcastle, Port Hedland, Port Kembla, Port Walcott, Sydney |
| Australia : Merchant marine |
50 ships |
| Australia : Airports |
464 |
| Australia : Heliports |
1 |
| Australia : Military branches |
Australian Defense Force (ADF): Australian Army, Royal Australian Navy, Royal Australian Air Force, Special Operations Command (2006) |
| Australia : Military expenditures |
3% of GDP (2009) |
