Australia
This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 13:33 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.
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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.
Australia is filled. The 5 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.
Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Australia. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
94 parts of Australia in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 32.0°S — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 91.2°E–164.7°E, 58.8°S–5.1°S.
Disputed areas
none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Australia. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
News sources
2 sources from Australiain Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.
- SBS News
- ABC News (AU)
sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated source present
Official alerts
no source connectedNo official alerting source is connected for this country yet. Its own authorities may well publish warnings — Aletheia simply does not carry them.
National legislature
Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable
Local time
13 time zones.
How many distinct clocks that is depends on the date. The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.
Conditions at the capital
Right now in Canberra
13°C / 55°FClearwind 7 km/h / 4 mph
Checked 3 minutes ago
Conditions at the capital, not across the country.
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
Canberra, 2026-09-20Sunrise 5:56 AM · sunset 5:58 PM12h 02m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit
At a glance
- ISO code
- AUSuncited
- Driving side
- leftuncited
- Mains voltage
- 230 Vcited
- Capital
- Canberracited
- Official languages
- Auslan, Australian English, Englishcited
- Plug type
- Type I (AS/NZS 3112)cited · letters are the IEC classification
- Official website
- australia.gov.au ↗This address now redirects to my.gov.au.From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited
- Tourism board
- australia.com ↗Not a government portal.
Population and economy
Population
Population of Australia: the UN's 2025 estimate is 27,614,411 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 48 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.
Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.
Where this number comes from
- Base figure
- 27,614,411 people
- For the year
- 2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
- Compared with
- 27,194,286 people in 2024
- Rate applied
- about 48 more an hour (420,404 a year)
- How that rate was found
- The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
- Carried forward
- 0 days beyond the base figure's date
- Source
- UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
- The source's own definition
- The values shown are midyear estimates.
THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.
- Population
- 27,614,4112025
- GDP
- 1,798,518,933,6892025
- GDP per capita
- 65,1302025
- Life expectancy at birth
- 83.1 years2024
- Exports
- 23.2%2025
- Imports
- 22.7%2025
Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source
In this country's own words
There's NOTHING like Australia
the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0) - Founded
- 1901
- National anthem
- Advance Australia Fair
Everything in this section is quoted, with its source. Aletheia does not write about a country's history, culture or religion in its own words — where there is nothing to quote, there is no section.
World Heritage Sites
21 World Heritage Sitesshow all
- Kakadu National Park · inscribed 1981
- Great Barrier Reef · inscribed 1981
- Willandra Lakes Region · inscribed 1981
- Tasmanian Wilderness · inscribed 1982
- Lord Howe Island Group · inscribed 1982
- Gondwana Rainforests of Australia · inscribed 1986
- Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park · inscribed 1987
- Wet Tropics of Queensland · inscribed 1988
- Shark Bay · inscribed 1991
- K'gari · inscribed 1992
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte) · inscribed 1994
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands · inscribed 1997
- Macquarie Island · inscribed 1997
- Greater Blue Mountains Area · inscribed 2000
- Purnululu National Park · inscribed 2003
- Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens · inscribed 2004
- Sydney Opera House · inscribed 2007
- Australian Convict Sites · inscribed 2010
- Ningaloo Reef · inscribed 2011
- Budj Bim · inscribed 2019
- Murujuga National Park · inscribed 2025
Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO
Emergency numbers
- 000
- 106
- 112
Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.
Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.
Explore this country
Regions
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates
Currency
AUD
News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.