What do Australian people think about privatization?
Economic axis · 🇦🇺 Australia · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
21% of Australian respondents take the position “Water, power and trains should be owned by the public, not run for profit.”, against 62% for “Water, power and trains work better when private firms compete to run them.”, with 16% choosing neither. n = 112, margin of error ±9.5, weighted to Australia's adult population.
Where Australia sits on economic
What is measured about Australia on this axis. These are facts about the country, not what its people think about them — that is the part of this page waiting on a sample.
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Health spending
WHO Global Health Expenditure · 2023
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10.4% |
higher than most countries
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Tax revenue
IMF Government Finance Statistics · 2022
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23.6% |
higher than most countries
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Income per person
World Bank / ICP · 2025
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$60,194 |
higher than most countries
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Ranked against every country with a published figure for the same series. Sources: World Bank World Development Indicators, which republish UN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, SIPRI, IISS and UNODC data.
The questions that bear on privatization
Asked as a forced choice between two written positions, in randomised order, with the sides flipped for half of respondents.
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A · Water, power and trains work better when private firms compete to run them.
B · Water, power and trains should be owned by the public, not run for profit.
World, unweighted: 23% A ·
20% neither ·
57% B · n = 4746
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21% B 🇦🇺 n=112 |
A national figure appears only once that nation clears 100 responses on the question. The world column is a raw count of every answer received and is not post-stratified — it is shown because withholding it would say less, not more.
Asked another way
The same question, as people put it.
- Australia public opinion on privatization
- Privatization poll australia
- What do australian people think about privatization
- What percentage of australian people support privatization
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.