Understanding Australia's Business and Consumer Environment: A Guide for Successful Business Down Under
Understanding Australia's Business and Consumer Environment
How will Australia's economy, business environment and consumer trends impact the success of your business? This e-book examines the fundamentals businesses must understand to successfully expand or operate in Australia.
Heralded as the success story among advanced economies for weathering the global economic downturn of 2008-2009, Australia’s high income levels and steady growth offer good opportunities for consumer goods and services in a wide range of sectors.
Key Findings:
- At the height of the global slowdown, advanced economies as a whole contracted by 3.5% - contrasting with Australia’s 1.4% growth.
- Whereas incomes and consumer expenditure have stagnated across many advanced economies, Australia’s per capita disposable income and expenditure have expanded by 9.8% and 3.5% respectively in real terms since 2008.
- In 2012, Australia was ranked 15 out of 183 economies on the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index, meaning it is the fifteenth easiest place in the world to start and operate a local firm.
- Australia has an educated population: 99.9% of adults (those aged 15+) were literate in 2011, but suffers from skills shortages.
- In 2011, the population aged 45-49 in Australia had the highest average gross income: A$77,810 (US$80,259).
Topics include:
- Ease of doing business rating
- Corruption index
- Literacy rate
- Future challenges
- Natural resources
- Media consumption
- Consumer trends
- More
