2. Home Life

For many Australians, the “Australian dream” of home ownership is looking a little more like a work in progress. Though a majority of Australians own a house with a mortgage, the proportion of people renting has increased around 20 percent since 1991. The percentage of Australians outright owning their homes has decreased to 31 percent in 2016 from 41 percent in 1991 — numbers that reflect Australia’s increasingly unaffordable housing market.

Same-sex couples can’t marry in Australia — but there are more of them: The A.B.S. counted more than 47,000 same-sex couples last year, a 42 percent increase from the 2011 census. That means that around half a percent of Australian households are now headed by a same-sex couple.

This puts it in the same ballpark as the United States, proportionally, where in 2010 the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that about 600,000 households were headed by same-sex couples. (Like the U.S. Census Bureau, the A.B.S. has opted not to include a separate count of the overall L.G.B.T. population.)

One more detail about home life that piqued our interest: 1 in 5 Australian men do zero hours of “unpaid domestic labor,” meaning helping around the house. Get to work, gentlemen!

3. Australia Is Graying

There’s no escaping it: Australia is getting older. Its median age is now 38 — up from 37 in 2011 — and the proportion of its population aged 65 years and over is up to 16 percent, from 14 percent.

This could pose problems down the road. As the Pew Research Center has pointed out:

“Coping with rising numbers of older people, and concomitant declines in working-age people, already is posing considerable social, economic and political challenges in countries such as Germany and Italy, and likely will do so in other societies as they age (including the U.S., where 14.8% of the population now is 65 or older).”

How have some countries worked to balance the ledger and inject youth back into their wobbling economies? Migration, naturally.