Australia
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Key Indicators
| Income Group | High income |
| Regional Group | Asia & Pacific |
| Population (Total) | 25,364,307 |
| Population as a share world total | 0.33% |
| GDP (current US$, millions) | 1,390,000 |
| GDP as a share of world total | 1.59% |
| GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) | 53,320 |
Performance Overview
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AUS
Country
Australia
Score
75.09
Rank
12
Technology
70.38
People
71.91
Governance
86.77
Impact
71.30
| 1. Mobile tariffs | 80.25 | 25 |
| 2. Handset prices | 94.04 | 2 |
| 3. Households with internet acccess | 86.08 | 32 |
| 4. 4G mobile network coverage (% of population) | 99.00 | 24 |
| 5. Fixed-broadband subscriptions, 10Mbit/s or above (% of total subscriptions) | 92.80 | 29 |
| 6. International internet bandwidth, kb/s per Internet user | 69.71 | 56 |
| 7. Proportion of primary schools with access to Internet for pedagogical purpose | 100.00 | 1 |
| 1. GitHub commits | 61.22 | 13 |
| 2. Wikipedia edits | 78.42 | 26 |
| 3. Internet domain registrations* | - | - |
| 4. Mobile apps development | 87.44 | 16 |
| 1. Availability of latest technologies | 82.33 | 15 |
| 2. Company investment in emerging technology | 65.76 | 24 |
| 3. ICT PCT patent applications per million population | 54.67 | 22 |
| 4. Total computer software spending (% of GDP) | 22.79 | 53 |
| 5. Robot density | 21.92 | 24 |
| 1. Medium and high-tech industry | 34.38 | 56 |
| 2. High-tech exports | 31.66 | 28 |
| 3. PCT patent applications | 20.93 | 22 |
| 4. Labour productivity per employee | 65.17 | 16 |
| 5. Prevalence of gig economy | 82.16 | 11 |
| 1. Happiness | 89.26 | 10 |
| 2. Freedom to make life choices | 92.22 | 16 |
| 3. Income inequality | 73.71 | 47 |
| 4. Healthy life expectancy at birth | 89.27 | 12 |
| 1. SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being | 96.72 | 2 |
| 2. SDG 4: Quality Education | 62.43 | 28 |
| 3. SDG 5: Gender Equality | 76.98 | 54 |
| 4. SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy | 74.57 | 80 |
| 5. SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities | 93.99 | 10 |
| 1. Internet users | 86.49 | 25 |
| 2. Active mobile-broadband subscriptions | 54.05 | 9 |
| 3. Use of virtual social networks | 71.13 | 22 |
| 5. Tertiary enrolment | 82.72 | 2 |
| 5. Adult literacy rate | n/a | n/a |
| 6. ICT skills | 76.02 | 23 |
| 1. Firms with website | 78.79 | 25 |
| 2. Ease of doing business | 90.18 | 14 |
| 3. Professionals | 53.66 | 17 |
| 4. Technicians and associate professionals | 55.88 | 30 |
| 5. Business use of digital tools | 86.56 | 12 |
| 6. R&D expenditure by businesses | 26.21 | 21 |
| 1. Government online services | 94.55 | 7 |
| 2. Publication and use of open data | 81.15 | 6 |
| 3. Government promotion of investment in emerging technologies | 51.42 | 36 |
| 4. R&D expenditure by governments and higher education | 78.66 | 10 |
| 1. Secure Internet servers | 83.87 | 16 |
| 2. Cybersecurity | 95.56 | 11 |
| 3. Online access to financial account | 79.37 | 11 |
| 4. Internet shopping | 86.81 | 10 |
| 1. Regulatory quality | 93.91 | 5 |
| 2. ICT regulatory environment | 96.72 | 8 |
| 3. Legal framework's adaptability to emerging technologies | 70.66 | 17 |
| 4. E-commerce legislation | 100.00 | 1 |
| 5. Privacy protection by law content | n/a | n/a |
| 1. E-Participation | 96.30 | 9 |
| 2. Socioeconomic gap in use of digital payments | 96.86 | 10 |
| 3. Availability of local online content | 93.01 | 8 |
| 4. Gender gap in internet use | 64.91 | 31 |
| 5. Rural gap in use of digital payments | 66.79 | 66 |