Canada and Australia Comparison Chart

Full Name	The Commonwealth of Australia	Canada
Year founded	1901	1867
Title of elected leader	Prime Minister	Prime Minister
First President/Prime Minister	Edmund Barton	John MacDonald
Accepts or rejects the monarchy?	Accepts	Accepts
Year of the Abolishment of slavery	1833	1833
Major language	English (official)	English and French (both official.)
Population	23 million	35 million
Largest ethnic minority (in 2011)	Australian Aboriginal (5%)	South Asian (4.4% in 2011)
Percent “white” (in 2011)	74.3%	79.1% in 2011
Global Fire Power Ranking	13th	14th
Country size (by rank)	6th	2nd
Largest cities	Sydney Melbourne Brisbane	Toronto Montreal Calgary
Regions	.Western, Northern, south, Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania.	Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Western and Northern Territories.
Number of states / Provinces	7	10
Number of territories	5	3 (mainland)
Major religion (in 2011):	Catholicism (25.1%)	Catholicism (39%)
Separation of church and state?	No	No
Percent of gun owners	15%	About 11%
Abortion	It is illegal everywhere when the pre-born child is less than 24 weeks old. However, it is allowed in Victoria when two doctors give their approval.	Abortion regardless of the age of the pre-born child is not banned anywhere in Canada.
Homicide rate (per 100,000)	1	2
Rape rate (in 2010)	28.6	1.7
Robbery rate	81.8 (2002)	88 (2001)
Abortion rate (% of Pregnancies)	20.2 (2007)	20.7 (2006)
Percent in poverty	13.9% (in 2014)	14.9%
Unemployment rate	6.2%	7%