Australia

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Name	Australia
Long name	Commonwealth of Australia
Population (people)	21,507,716 (2011)
Population (source)	census
Constitutional form	Constitutional monarchy
Drives on	Left
Head of state authority	Ceremonial
Main continent	Oceania
Number of airports	467
Airports - with paved runways	333
Airports - with unpaved runways	134
Area (m²)	7,692,024
Birth rate (births/1,000 population)	12
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Children under the age of 5 years underweight (%)
Current Account Balance (US$)	-40,499,998,720
Death rate (deaths/1,000 population)	7
Debt - external (Billion US$)	1,376
Economic aid donor (Billion $)	2
Electricity consumption (billion kWh)	225
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh per person)	10,238
Electricity exports (million kWh)	0
Electricity imports (million kWh)	0
Electricity production (billion kWh)	232
Exports (Billion $)	272
GDP - per capita (PPP) (US$)	40,800
GDP (purchasing power parity) (Billion $)	926
GDP real growth rate (%)	2
Gross national income (US$)	34
Human Development Index	1
Health expenditures (% of GDP)	9
Heliports	1
HIV AIDS adult prevalence rate (%)	0
HIV AIDS deaths	100
HIV AIDS people living with HIV AIDS	20,000
Hospital bed density (beds/1,000 population)	4
Capital city	Canberra
Currency	Australian dollar
Imports (Billion $)	243
Industrial production growth rate (%)	0
Infant mortality rate (deaths/1,000 live births)	5
Inflation rate consumer prices (%)	3
Internet hosts	16,952,000
Internet tld	.au
Internet users	15,810,000
Investment (gross fixed) (%)	27
Iso 3166 code	AU
ISO CODE	AUS
Labor force	12,050,000
Life expectancy at birth (years)	82
Literacy (%)	99
Manpower available for military service	5,316,464
Manpower fit for military service	4,411,958
Manpower reaching militarily age annually	143,565
Is democracy	Yes
Market value of publicly traded shares (US$)	1,198,000,046,080
Maternal mortality rate (deaths/100,000 live births)	7
Merchant marine	52
Military expenditures percent of GDP	3
Natural gas consumption (cubic meters)	26,410,000,384
Natural gas consumption per capita (cubic meters per person)	1,200
Natural gas exports (cubic meters)	24,700,000,256
Natural gas imports (cubic meters)	5,990,000,128
Natural gas production (cubic meters)	45,110,001,664
Natural gas proved reserves (cubic meters)	3,115,000,004,608
Net migration rate (migrant/1,000 population)	6
Obesity adult prevalence rate (%)	16
Oil consumption (bbl/day)	960,800
Oil consumption per capita (bbl/day per 1000 people)	44
Oil exports (bbl/day)	312,600
Oil imports (bbl/day)	731,400
Oil production (bbl/day)	549,200
Oil proved reserves (bbl)	3,318,000,128
Physicians density (physicians/1,000 population)	3
Population below poverty line (%)
Population census (people)	21,507,716 (2011)
Population density (Number of people per square kilometer)	3
Population estimate (people)	23,764,300 (2015)
Population growth rate (%)	1
Public debt (% of GDP)	27
Railways (km)	38,445
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold (US$)	46,799,998,976
Roadways (km)	818,356
Stock of direct foreign investment abroad (US$)	443,500,003,328
Stock of direct foreign investment at home (US$)	549,099,995,136
Telephones main lines in use	10,540,000
Telephones main lines in use per capita	48
Telephones mobile cellular	24,490,000
Telephones mobile cellular per capita	113
Total fertility rate (children born/woman)	2
Unemployment rate (%)	5
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 (%)	12
Waterways (km)	2,000
Valley	Avon Valley National Park, Bardwell Valley, New South Wales, Bilpa Morea, Brindabella Valley, Bulwer Valley, Capertee Valley, Cudmore Valley, Fassifern Valley, Flaxmans Valley, Flora Valley, Grose Valley, Hancock Valley, Huon Valley, Kenton Valley, South Australia, Lockyer Valley, Numinbah Valley, Perisher Valley, New South Wales, Porcupine Gorge, Ravine des Casoars, Screech Owl Valley, Styx Valley, Upper Florentine Valley, Valley Lake (South Australia), Yarra Valley
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Religion
Continent	Oceania
Border
Plateau	Mount Wellington (Tasmania)
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Demonym	australian, aussie

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