Goal 10 · People
Reduced inequalities
Reduce inequality within and among countries.
- Canada’s rating
- Challenges remain
- Moderately improving
- Canada’s goal score
- 88.1/ 100
- +5.9 points since 2015; best in the G7
- G7 countries improving
- 2 of 7
- Decreasing: Germany, United States
- G7 achieved or with challenges remaining
- 3 of 7
- 3 significant, 1 major challenges
How the G7 compare
Goal 10 score, 2005–2025
Score out of 100 on the globally comparable indicators. Canada is the thick line. Dashed: OECD and all-country averages.
Indicator by indicator
The goal colour is driven by each country’s two worst indicators, so read the whole row before judging a country.
Goal 10 indicators for the G7
Latest value, with the rating colour and trend arrow. Hover a cell for the year of the data. ◆ marks indicators about effects on other countries (spillovers); † marks OECD dashboard indicators that are not in the SDG Index score.
| Indicator | Green threshold | Canada | France | Germany | Italy | Japan | United Kingdom | United States |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gini coefficient | 30 | 31.1 | 31.8 | 32.4 | 34.3 | 32.3 | 32.4 | 41.8 |
| Palma ratio | 1 | 1.12 | 1.12 | 1.17 | 1.24 | 1.31 | 1.57 | 1.8 |
| Elderly poverty rate (% of population aged 66 or over) † | 5 | 10.1 | 6.2 | 13.1 | 12.3 | 20 | 15 | 22.9 |
Explore one indicator over time
Gini coefficient
The Gini coefficient measures the extent to which the distribution of income among individuals or households within an economy deviates from a perfectly equal distribution.
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The rest of the world
Goal 10 score around the world, 2025
Goal score out of 100 (globally comparable indicators). G7 countries are outlined.
G7 countries are outlined; Canada has the thickest outline.
Workshop questions
Which G7 country has the highest Goal 10 score, and which has the lowest? Do their dashboard colours tell the same story as their scores?
Show a hint
Colours come from each country’s two worst indicators, while the score is the average of all indicators in the index.
Do the Gini and Palma ratio rank the G7 the same way? If not, what does the difference tell you about each country’s distribution?
Goal 10 also covers inequality between countries. Which indicators on the Spillovers page relate to that?
For Canada, find the oldest data point among this goal’s indicators. How might an old value change the colour or arrow you see?
Pick one indicator where Canada is stagnating. Use the Trend lab to calculate the annual change needed to reach the green threshold by 2030, and compare it with Canada’s pace since 2015.