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Culture Stats: compare key data on Australia & United States

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STAT Australia United States HISTORY
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > All drinks 10.02
Ranked 44th. 6% more than United States
9.44
Ranked 57th.
Food and drink > Beer consumption 1.79 billion L
Ranked 15th.
24.14 billion L
Ranked 2nd. 13 times more than Australia
Food and drink > Cheese consumption per capita per year 11.7 kg
Ranked 16th.
15.1 kg
Ranked 14th. 29% more than Australia
Food and drink > Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet date May 30, 1971 May 15, 1940
Food and drink > Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet location Yagoona, New South Wales San Bernardino , California
Food and drink > Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet notes First outlet in an independent country in Oceania . See McDonald's Australia . See McDonalds Annual Report
Food and drink > Fast food outlets > KFC > Notes The first Australian KFC was built in Guildford on the western suburbs of Sydney First franchise in Salt Lake City , Utah in 1952
Food and drink > Fast food outlets > KFC > Year entered 1,968
Ranked 3rd. 1% more than United States
1,952
Ranked 13th.
Food and drink > Milk consumption per capita 230.92 kg
Ranked 24th.
253.8 kg
Ranked 16th. 10% more than Australia
Happy Planet Index 36.6
Ranked 102nd. 19% more than United States
30.7
Ranked 114th.

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. Legal in all states. Individual states remain free to restrict or prohibit the manufacture of beer, mead, hard cider, wine and other fermented alcoholic beverages at home. Until 2013, Alabama and Mississippi were the only states with laws prohibiting the homebrewing of beer. Alabama and Mississippi both legalized home brewing in their respective 2013 legislative sessions. Although all state governments have legalized homebrewing, some states retain local options that permit local governments to make homebrewing illegal under municipal law. Alaska in one such state where the local option is currently exercised.
Sentiments towards other countries > China > Negative view of China 55%
Ranked 8th.
67%
Ranked 4th. 22% more than Australia
Sentiments towards other countries > China > Positive view of China 36%
Ranked 14th. 57% more than United States
23%
Ranked 22nd.
Smoking > Cigarettes per adult per year 1,034
Ranked 50th. 1% more than United States
1,028
Ranked 51st.
World Heritage Sites 3
Ranked 73th.
8
Ranked 24th. 3 times more than Australia
Pets > Animal cropping (legal status) Banned Unrestricted (some states, including New York and Vermont, have considered bills to make the practice illegal)
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Beer 4.56
Ranked 21st. 2% more than United States
4.47
Ranked 23th.
Sentiments towards other countries > China > Neutral view of China 9%
Ranked 23th.
10%
Ranked 22nd. 11% more than Australia
Food and drink > Alcohol > Litres of pure alcohol drunk per year 9.02
Ranked 30th. 5% more than United States
8.61
Ranked 33th.
Sentiments towards other countries > China > Net sentiment towards China -19%
Ranked 17th.
-43%
Ranked 22nd. 2 times more than Australia
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Homemade and illegal drinks 0.13
Ranked 176th.
1
Ranked 100th. 8 times more than Australia
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Spirits 1.16
Ranked 92nd.
2.65
Ranked 42nd. 2 times more than Australia
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Wine 3.12
Ranked 24th. 2 times more than United States
1.36
Ranked 48th.
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Other alcoholic drinks 1.02
Ranked 24th.
0.0
Ranked 128th.
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Legal sources 9.89
Ranked 28th. 17% more than United States
8.44
Ranked 43th.
Food and drink > Alcohol > Standard drink size 10 g
Ranked 9th.
14 g
Ranked 3rd. 40% more than Australia
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. url= http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-03-19/pdf/2010-6087.pdf|title= Regulations Restricting the Sale and Distribution of Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco to Protect Children and Adolescents|author= |date= 19 March 2011

SOURCES: Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation, 2011. p. 273 ff.; 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 by milk consumption per capita ("Countries by milk consumption per capita" . "Countries by consumptions per capita" .); http://www.happyplanetindex.org/data/; Wikipedia: Homebrewing (Legality); 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: Table of World Heritage Sites by country (Table of World Heritage Sites); Wikipedia: Cropping (animal) (Status by country); World Health Organization. Source tables; 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. ; Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation, 2011. p. 273 ff. ; 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.); Wikipedia: Cigarette machine (Tobacco vending machine prevalence by country) ("Japanese smokers to face age test" . BBC . 2008-12-06 . Retrieved 2008-03-07 .)

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