---
title: "Australia vs Ethiopia — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Ethiopia is 1,104,300 km² with 135,472,051. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-ethiopia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Ethiopia

**Australia vs Ethiopia: Australia is larger; Ethiopia has more people**

7,741,220 km² vs 1,104,300 km² · 27,614,411 vs 135,472,051

Australia is 7.0 times larger than Ethiopia — 7,741,220 against 1,104,300 km². Ethiopia is 4.9 times more populous than Australia — 135,472,051 against 27,614,411 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Ethiopia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Addis Ababa |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 1,104,300 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 135,472,051 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 122.7 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Ethiopian birr (ETB) |
| Official languages | English | Amharic |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+03:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +251 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Oceania | Africa |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | ET / ETH |

## Population density

Ethiopia is 34 times more densely populated than Australia — 123 against 4 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

## Practical differences

- They drive on opposite sides — Australia on the left, Ethiopia on the right.
- Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Ethiopian birr.
- Australia spans 5 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Oceania and Africa.

## Australia

The sixth-largest country in the world and the only one that covers an entire continent. The Great Barrier Reef runs about 2,300 km and is the largest structure made by living organisms on Earth, visible from orbit. Around eighty percent of its mammals, reptiles and flowering plants exist nowhere else. Melbourne and Sydney are within roughly a hundred thousand people of each other, and which counts as the largest city depends on where the boundary is drawn.

## Ethiopia

Ethiopia has the highest mean elevation of any country in Africa, with more land above 3,000 m than the rest of the continent combined. The Blue Nile leaves Lake Tana here and supplies most of the Nile's flow during the flood season. The country keeps its own calendar of thirteen months, running seven to eight years behind the Gregorian one.

> Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.

## Common questions

### Is Australia bigger than Ethiopia?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 1,104,300 km².

### Which has more people, Australia or Ethiopia?

Ethiopia, with 135,472,051 against 27,614,411.

### What is the time difference between Australia and Ethiopia?

Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and Ethiopia is UTC+03:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [Ethiopia](https://atoneplace.net/country/ethiopia/)
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- [Canada vs Ethiopia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-ethiopia/)
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- [Australia vs India](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-india/)
- [Australia vs China](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-china/)
- [Australia vs United Kingdom](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-united-kingdom/)
- [Australia vs Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-japan/)
- [Australia vs Canada](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-canada/)
- [Australia vs New Zealand](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-new-zealand/)
- [Australia vs France](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-france/)
- [Australia vs Germany](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-germany/)
- [Australia vs Italy](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-italy/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]