AustraliaandSouth Africa

1 January 1901 · 31 May 1910

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

Australia

1 January 1901 — Six colonies join to create the Commonwealth of Australia

Dossier →Chronicle →

South Africa

31 May 1910 — Four colonies join to create the Union of South Africa

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
44
Domains
9
Crossed events
0
Data through
2026-08-14

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

AUSZAF
  • GDP
    $1.80 T2025$427 B2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $65,1302025$6,5982025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    1.4%20251.1%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    2.9%20253.2%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    45.9%202560.9%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

AUSZAF
  • Population
    28 m202565 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    83.1 yrs202466.3 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    87.7%202563.8%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    1.520242.22024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

AUSZAF

Health

AUSZAF
  • Health spending
    10.4%20238.9%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    4.0920220.792022
    Observed 2022 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    3.6202435.12024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    91.0%202476.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    —68.0%2024
    Observed — / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

AUSZAF
  • Education spending
    5.1%20226.0%2024
    Observed 2022 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Primary enrolment
    99.6%2024101.8%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Secondary enrolment
    131.9%2024104.1%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Tertiary enrolment
    108.4%202423.5%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Adult literacy
    —91.2%2024
    Observed — / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

AUSZAF
  • R&D spending
    1.9%20210.6%2022
    Observed 2021 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    4,56920104442022
    Observed 2010 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    96.1%202478.4%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    11320241792024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    25.2%20245.7%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

AUSZAF

Resources

AUSZAF
  • Resource rents
    13.4%20217.3%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.3%20210.4%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    10.5%20213.8%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    0.1%20210.6%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    100.0%202490.2%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Copper (mined)
    730 kt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Iron ore
    980 Mt202566 Mt2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Gold (mined)
    280 t202590 t2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Lithium (mined)
    92.0 kt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Cobalt (mined)
    3,700 t2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Nickel (mined)
    45.0 kt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Rare earths
    29.0 kt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Bauxite
    97 Mt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Zinc (mined)
    1.1 Mt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Phosphate rock
    2.5 Mt20252.2 Mt2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Military

AUSZAF
  • Military burden
    1.9%20240.7%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $34 B2024$2.8 B2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    60,000202089,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

Neither nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — across both archives, no recorded event crosses between them. That is a fact about the two records as they stand, not a gap filled here: this page reports what the archives hold, and holds nothing they do not.