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Australia

Australian Culture Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > All drinks 10.02 2005 44th out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Beer 4.56 2005 21st out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Homemade and illegal drinks 0.13 2005 176th out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Legal sources 9.89 2005 28th out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Other alcoholic drinks 1.02 2005 24th out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Spirits 1.16 2005 92nd out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Wine 3.12 2005 24th out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Legal drinking age 18 2014 8th out of 14
Food and drink > Alcohol > Litres of pure alcohol drunk per year 9.02 2003 30th out of 178
Food and drink > Alcohol > Standard drink size 10 g 2008 9th out of 17
Food and drink > Beer consumption 1.79 billion L 2014 15th out of 40
Food and drink > Cheese consumption per capita per year 11.7 kg 2011 16th out of 20
Food and drink > Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet date May 30, 1971 2014
Food and drink > Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet location Yagoona, New South Wales 2014
Food and drink > Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet notes First outlet in an independent country in Oceania . See McDonald's Australia . 2014
Food and drink > Fast food outlets > KFC > Notes The first Australian KFC was built in Guildford on the western suburbs of Sydney 2014
Food and drink > Fast food outlets > KFC > Owner or major operator KFC Australia Pty Ltd 2014
Food and drink > Fast food outlets > KFC > Year entered 1,968 2014 3rd out of 3
Food and drink > Honey consumption 16,000 metric tons 2005 17th out of 29
Food and drink > Horse meat production 24,000 tonnes 2009 6th out of 15
Food and drink > Milk consumption per capita 230.92 kg 2007 24th out of 99
Gambling > Casino revenue 2,697 2009 3rd out of 9
Gambling > Casino revenue per thousand people 0.124 2009 3rd out of 9
Gambling > Casinos 11 2014 5th out of 8
Happy Planet Index 36.6 2009 102nd out of 143
Hobbies > Homebrewing legality Legal for individuals to manufacture their own alcohol without paying excise with two provisions, that they do not employ the use of a still, and that they do not sell the product. 2014
Pets > Animal cropping (legal status) Banned 2001
Sentiments towards other countries > China > Negative view of China 55% 2014 8th out of 25
Sentiments towards other countries > China > Net sentiment towards China -19% 2014 17th out of 25
Sentiments towards other countries > China > Neutral view of China 9% 2014 23th out of 25
Sentiments towards other countries > China > Positive view of China 36% 2014 14th out of 25
Smoking > Cigarettes per adult per year 1,034 2014 50th out of 184
Smoking > Pack of 20 cigarettes price €10.5 2014 2nd out of 10
Smoking > Pack of 20 cigarettes price (USD) 13.5 2014 2nd out of 10
Smoking > Tobacco vending machine legal status Sales prohibited to under 18s. Can only be located in liquor licensed and gaming venues, must display health warnings and cannot contain images of product only description and price on black and white label. 2008
Tobacco > Purchase age 18 2014 63th out of 88
World Heritage Sites 3 2014 73th out of 140

SOURCES: Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation, 2011. p. 273 ff.; Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation, 2011. p. 273 ff.; Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation, 2011. p. 273 ff. ; Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation. p. 273 ff. ; http://www.icap.org/Table/MinimumAgeLimitsWorldwide; World Health Organization. Source tables; Wikipedia: Standard drink (Standard drinks as defined by various countries) (ICAP Report 5 - "What is a 'standard drink'". URL: [1] . Accessed on June 19, 2008.); Per Capita Beer Consumption by Country in 2012, Kirin Holdings Company. Table 3.; Wikipedia: Cheese (Total cheese consumption per capita per year) ("Total and Retail Cheese Consumption – Kilograms per Capita" . Canadian Dairy Information Centre . Retrieved 2013-05-20 ., , Cidilait, ''Le fromage'', Cheese Consumption Continues to Rise); Wikipedia: List of countries with McDonald's restaurants (Countries and territories with a McDonald's outlet); Wikipedia: List of countries with KFC franchises (Africa); Wikipedia: List of countries with KFC franchises (Asia); Wikipedia: Beekeeping (World honey production and consumption); http://www.farminguk.com/news/Argentina-Horse-Meat-world-production-figures._10249.html; Wikipedia: List of countries by milk consumption per capita ("Countries by milk consumption per capita" . "Countries by consumptions per capita" .); Casino Revenues 2014, PricewaterCoopers; Casino Revenues 2014, PricewaterCoopers. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Wikipedia: Casino (By region) ; http://www.happyplanetindex.org/data/; Wikipedia: Homebrewing (Legality); Wikipedia: Cropping (animal) (Status by country); Wikipedia: Sinophobia (Region-based Sinophobia); http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/country-rating-poll.pdf, June 2014. p. 37.; Wikipedia: List of countries by cigarette consumption per capita (List); Wikipedia: Cigarette (Prices); Wikipedia: Cigarette machine (Tobacco vending machine prevalence by country) ("Japanese smokers to face age test" . BBC . 2008-12-06 . Retrieved 2008-03-07 .); Wikipedia: Smoking age; Wikipedia: Table of World Heritage Sites by country (Table of World Heritage Sites)

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Australia Culture Profiles (Subcategories)

Food and drink 21 Sentiments towards other countries 4
Gambling 3 Smoking 4

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