Investment
- Australia
is the seventh largest investor in the UK.
- Britain
ranks as Australia's second most important overseas
investment destination.
- Britain is
the second largest offshore investor in Australia, behind
the USA.
Trade
- Britain is
Australia's third largest trading partner overall.
- Britain is
Australia's fifth largest source of imports and fifth
largest export market for goods.
- Two-way trade is worth over £5.83bn.
People Links
- Over 1.1 m
Australians were born in the UK.
- Another
1.6 m Australians have a parent born in the UK.
- More
British passports are issued by the British High
Commission in Canberra than by any other British office
abroad - over 52,000 pa.
- There are
over 1 m visits a year between the two countries.
- British
Tourists spend far longer in Australia than do those from
any other country.
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