Australia and Vietnam: Similarities and Differences

Trying to find similarities between these two countries is like apples and oranges. However, you might be surprised to know that both of these countries do share some common points, but there are of course some glaring differences too.

 

Geography

Vietnam is the 14th largest country in the world by population, with a population of 93,421,835 people. It is the 66th largest country in the world, by area with 331,210 square kilometres. Australia, on the other hand, occupies an area of 7,692,024 square kilometres but is not very densely populated as it is home to 24,772,700 people of the world. The Vietnamese population is roughly thirty-seven times the population of Australia. Despite Australia’s vast, open spaces its population is quite less, compared to Vietnam which is a highly populous nation-state, despite occupying a long and narrow stretch of the landmass.

Religion

A wide variety of differences cultures of Australia and Vietnam. Buddhism is the most widely followed religion in Vietnam whereas Christianity is more prevalent in Australia. 

 

Language

English and Vietnamese, surprisingly, have many similarities. Both English and Vietnamese are based on Latin and use loan words. These loanwords are either from French or Chinese. For both the languages, pronunciation is crucial. Despite these similarities, the two languages are vastly different, for instance, Vietnamese has more letters than English. Another difference is the grammar, for example, there is a clear division of tenses in English while Vietnamese grammar is more difficult. Moreover, English is the language of the new age and thus, even many people from Vietnam learn English as a second language. 

 

Life Expectancy

The life expectancy at birth in Vietnam is 72.91 compared to Australia’s 82.07. life expectancy at birth is also a measure of overall quality of life in a country and summarizes the mortality at all ages. One can also look at it as a potential return on investment in human capital and is necessary for the calculation of various actuarial measures.

 

Employment Rate

Vietnam has an unemployment rate of 1.30% whereas the unemployment rate in Australia is a high 5.70%.

 

Infant Mortality Rate

This is also used as a parameter to measure the level f health in a county. The number of deaths of infants under one-year-old in a given year per 1000 live births in Vietnam is 18.99 while in Australia it is 4.43. this means that infants are 4.3 times more likely to die in Vietnam.

GDP

An individual in Vietnam makes 90.7% less money than an individual in Australia. The GDP per capita in Vietnam is $4000, while in Australia it is $43,000.

 

Healthcare

Vietnamese spend 98.33% less on per capita public and private health expenditure a purchase power parity using US dollars. Per capita, public and private health expenditures combined in Vietnam are 102.50 USD while Australia spends 6,140 USD.

 

Oil Consumption

Australia consumes 1.9110 gallons of oil per day per capita while Vietnam consumes 0.1176