Travel and tourism, ICT, transport, insurance and finance, iron ores, coal, petroleum gases, petroleum crude oil, copper ore, zinc ore, wheat, barley, lamb, beef, wine, gold, aluminum oxide, wool, raw cotton and textiles are major industries of Australia. In 2017, Agriculture industry contributed 3.6% to GDP of Australia. Manufacturing had a share of 25.3% while services industry had a share of 71.2% of GDP in 2017.
In 2017, Services industry exports was valued at USD 64.9 billion for Australia. Machinery export accounted for USD 7.47 billion, chemicals for USD 15.6 billion, metals for USD 12.6 billion, minerals for USD 152 billion, stones for USD 19.3 billion, textiles for USD 4.93 billion and agriculture for USD 37 billion in 2017.
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Neighboring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east.
Australia is estimated to have population of 20.974 million in the year 2020 and expected to reach 27.662 million by 2024, growing at a CAGR of 1.56%.
Australia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) was AUD 1871.51 billion in 2019 and due to COVID-19 outbreak it is estimated to shrink by 6.665% to be around AUD 1746.77 billion in 2020. Australia’s unemployment rate was 5.183% of total labor force in 2019. Due to slowdown in global economic activity due to COVID-19 pandemic the unemployment is expected to increase by 31.99% and reach 7.621% in 2020. Unemployment is further estimated to increase in 2021 by 14.60% and reach 8.924% of total labor force in Australia.
Australia’s per capita GDP was estimated at USD 55421.33 whereas purchasing power parity (PPP) based per capita GDP is estimated to be at USD 53559.18 for the year 2019.
The output gap for Australia in 2020 is estimated to be in negative at 0.492% of the potential GDP which indicates that Australian economy will be underperforming by managing actual output.
In 2019, Australian government’s revenue was estimated to be AUD 711.031 billion whereas the expenditure is estimated to be AUD 739.73 billion. This is expected to result in Australian government’s net lending / borrowing negative at AUD 28.699 billion in 2019 indicating that enough financial resources will not made available by the government to boost economic growth.
The current account balance for Australia was negative and estimated to be at USD 29.086 billion for the year 2019 and is expected to further decrease at a CAGR of 9.14% and reach negative USD 45.04 billion by 2024. This negative current account balance indicates thatÌýAustralia is a net borrower from the whole world.
In World Bank’s ease of doing business ranking Australia was ranked 14 out of 190 countries in 2019. Australia’s ease of doing business ranking has improved from 18th position in 2018.
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