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Canada vs Australia: Population – Wages – Prices – Cost of Living – Tax Burden – House Prices

May 12, 2014 1:48 am
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Canada Compared with Australia

Population — Wages — Prices — Cost of Living — Tax Burden — House Prices

 

Canada and Australia are the two largest countries that select potential skilled immigrants using a points system.

Both countries have an enviable reputation as places where people enjoy a high quality of life and a high standard of living.

Both also withstood the financial turmoil of the last few years better than most.

Each has large reserves of minerals and, in Canada’s case oil. As worldwide demand for commodities has risen, so have the economic prospects of Australia and Canada.

We put these countries head-to-head, to see how they measure up on a number of measures including wages, house prices, taxes, unemployment, net inward migration rate, and climate.

Canada vs Australia

Canada Australia
Area 9.98 million sq km 7.69 million sq km
Estimated Population 2012 34.3 million 22 million
Largest City Toronto (pop. 2.7 million) Sydney (pop. 4.5 million)
Net migration rate in 2012 5.65 arrivals per 1,000 population 5.93 arrivals per 1,000 population
Proportion of population born overseas 20 percent 24 percent
Ethnic Groups European 66%,
Amerindian 2%,
other 6%,
mixed background 26%
White 92%,
Asian 7%,
Aboriginal,
other 1%
GDP Per Person
(Purchasing Power Parity)
2011
US$40,300 US$40,800
Average Weekly Earnings 2010 (All ages of workers, full-time and part-time, including overtime) Can$848 per week Aus$1010 per week
Average Weekly Earnings 2010
converted to US$
US$854 per week US$1072 per week
Minimum Wage (per hour) 2011/2012 Varies from Can$9.00 per hour in Yukon to Can$11 per hour in Nunavut Federal Minimum Aus$15.51
Unemployment Rate
(Early 2012)
7.6% 5.2%
Cost of Living Ranking
(Mercer cost of living survey 2011)
The lower the ranking, the higher the cost of living.
Toronto 59th; Vancouver 65th; Montreal 79th; Calgary 96th Sydney 14th; Melbourne 21st; Perth 30th; Brisbane 34th
Homicide Rate 2010 1.62 per 100,000 people 1.1 per 100,000 people
Tax Freedom Day † 2011 6 June 6 April
Average Home Price (Early 2012) Can$348,000 Aus$533,000
Average Home Price
converted to US$ (Early 2012)
$350,000 $565,000
Life expectancy at birth
(males, 2012 est.)
78.89 years 79.48 years
Life expectancy at birth
(females, 2012 est.)
84.21 years 84.45 years
Typical Climates Temperate, semi-continental, continental, prairie, polar Temperate, mediterranean, sub-tropical, tropical, desert

† Tax freedom day is the day each year when the average income earner has paid all taxes to government and gets to keep all their income. The earlier the date, the lower the tax burden on the average citizen.

References

CIA Factbook

Living In Australia

The Centre for Independent Studies

Fraser Institute

Mercer

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