COUNTRY PROFILE OF AUSTRALIA
GEOGRAPHIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

AREA 

7,682,300 sq. km.

Latitude 10 degrees 41 minutes South and 43 degrees 39 minutes South.

Longitude 43 degrees 9 minutes East and 153 degrees 39 minutes East.

CAPITAL 

Canberra

CLIMATE, CLIMATIC ZONES, MAIN SEASONS

Australia has a wide climatic range, from tropical in the north to temperate in the south.  Summer is from December to February; Autumn (fall) from March to May; Winter from June to August; and Spring from September to November.  The coldest regions are in the  highlands and tablelands of Tasmania and the southeastern corner of the mainland.

Jan-Feb is generally the hottest months, and average annual temperatures vary from 27 degree Celsius in the far north to 13 degree Celsius in the far south.  Some 70 per cent of the continent is arid. Extremes of heat and cold occur in the interior.

TIME 

GMT + 8 hours in Western Australia
GMT + 9.5 hours in the Northern Territory and Southern Australia
GMT + 10 hr. in New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria
 

POPULATION

TOTAL POPULATION

19,820,433 (31 january 2003)

AGE STRUCTURE 
0-14 years: 20.4% (male 2,046,052; female 1,949,725)
15-64 years: 67% (male 6,610,840; female 6,480,354)
65 years and over: 12.6% (male 1,078,506; female 1,381,315) (2002 est.)

POPULATION GROWTH RATE :0.96% (2002 est.)
Birth rate: 12.71 births/1,000 population (2002 est.) 
Death rate: 7.25 deaths/1,000 population (2002 est.) 
Net migration rate: 4.12 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2002 est.) 

SEX RATIO : at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.78 male(s)/female
total population: 0.99 male(s)/female (2002 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 4.9 deaths/1,000 live births (2002 est.)

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 80 years
female: 83 years (2002 est.)
male: 77.15 years

Employed persons ('000) 9,241.2 9,258.6 0.2 % (January 2002)
Unemployed persons ('000) 672.3 670.2 -0.3 % 
Unemployment rate (%) 6.8 

ETHNIC COMPOSITION

Approximately 26% are Anglican; 26% Catholic; and other 24.3%  are Christians.

LABOUR WORK FORCE

 
TREND Dec 2002
Employed persons ('000) 9,438.6
Unemployed persons ('000) 615.3
Unemployment rate (%) 6.1
Participation rate (%) 63.9

 
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