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Australia

Australia's best placing is 2nd of 194 for land area per person.

Best placing: #2Land area per person
Top 10 placings: 8 / 17
Population: 27.6 million
Land area: 7.7 million km²

Every ranking

Best placings first. The bar shows how far up the ranking Australia is.

Land area per person

#2 of 194

0.279 km² of land per person

World Bank · 2023

Airports

#3 of 193

2,257 airports

1st in Oceania · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Railways per person

#3 of 134

1,180.76 km of railway per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2022

Forest

#6 of 194

1,340,051 km² of forest

1st in Oceania · World Bank · 2023

Land area

#6 of 194

7,692,020 km² of land

1st in Oceania · World Bank · 2023

Forest per person

#7 of 194

0.0485 km² of forest per person

World Bank · 2023

Coastline

#6 of 151

25,760 km of coastline

1st in Oceania · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Railways

#7 of 135

32,606 km of railway

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2022

GDP per person

#11 of 182

65,130 GDP per person (US$)

World Bank · 2025

Airports per person

#12 of 192

81.73 airports per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

GDP

#15 of 182

1,798,518,933,689 US$ (current prices)

1st in Oceania · World Bank · 2025

Population

#55 of 195

27,614,411 people

1st in Oceania · World Bank · 2025

Airports by area

#113 of 191

2.93 airports per 10,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Forest by area

#126 of 194

17.4 % of land area covered by forest

World Bank · 2023

Railways by area

#95 of 133

4.24 km of railway per 1,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2022

Rainfall

#140 of 179

534 mm of precipitation per year

8th in Oceania · World Bank · 2022

Population by area

#193 of 194

3.59 people per km²

World Bank · 2025

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