Australia 
Facts
Population: 20,434,176 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 19.3% (male 2,023,375/female 1,929,229)
15-64 years: 67.4% (male 6,945,068/female 6,831,653)
65 years and over: 13.2% (male 1,197,494/female 1,507,357) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 0.824% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 12.02 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 7.56 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 3.78 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.049 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.017 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.794 male(s)/female
total population: 0.99 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 4.57 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 4.95 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 4.16 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 80.62 years
male: 77.75 years
female: 83.63 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.76 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.1% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 14,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 200 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Australian(s)
adjective: Australian.
Ethnic groups: white 92%, Asian 7%, aboriginal and other 1%.
Religions: Catholic 26.4%, Anglican 20.5%, other Christian 20.5%, Buddhist 1.9%, Muslim 1.5%, other 1.2%, unspecified 12.7%, none 15.3% (2001 Census).
Languages: English 79.1%, Chinese 2.1%, Italian 1.9%, other 11.1%, unspecified 5.8% (2001 Census).
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $674.6 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 2.7% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $33,300 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 3.8%
industry: 26.2%
services: 70% (2005 est.).
Labor force: 10.66 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 3.6%
industry: 21.2%
services: 75.2% (2004 est.).
Population below poverty line: NA%.
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2%
highest 10%: 25.4% (1994).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.8% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 4.9% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $267 billion
expenditures: $258 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: wheat, barley, sugarcane, fruits, cattle, sheep, poultry.
Industries: mining, industrial and transportation equipment, food processing, chemicals, steel.
Industrial production growth rate: -3.5% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 225.3 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 209.5 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $117 billion (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: coal, gold, meat, wool, alumina, iron ore, wheat, machinery and transport equipment.
Exports - partners: Japan 20.3%, China 11.5%, South Korea 7.9%, US 6.7%, NZ 6.5%, India 5% (2005).
Imports: $127.7 billion (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment, computers and office machines, telecommunication equipment and parts; crude oil and petroleum products.
Imports - partners: US 13.9%, China 13.7%, Japan 11%, Singapore 5.6%, Germany 5.6% (2005).
Debt - external: $585.1 billion (30 June 2006 est.).
Economic aid - donor: ODA, $894 million (FY99/00).
Currency (code): Australian dollar (AUD).
Exchange rates: Australian dollars per US dollar - 1.3285 (2006), 1.3095 (2005), 1.3598 (2004), 1.5419 (2003), 1.8406 (2002).
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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Australia’s attorney general, Philip Ruddock, has described the hanging of convicted Australian drug smuggler Nguyen Tuong Van in Singapore as “barbaric” saying the Singaporean government’s decision to ignore all pleas for leniency was “even worse in this case because issues of mitigation could not be taken into account.”
Prime Minister John Howard called a special media conference in Canberra on Nov. 2 at which he gave the impression that his government had received information indicating that there was an imminent terrorist threat in Australia.
The laws have drawn criticism from ex-prime ministers, civil libertarians and eminent legal officials alike who describe the proposals as flawed, ill conceived and possibly unconstitutional.
Move over Pauline Hanson, you’ve been replaced by an aggressive army of professional word-spinners who easily out-offend, out-vilify and out-incite you.
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