Goal 11 · Planet
Sustainable cities and communities
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
- Canada’s rating
- Significant
- Stagnating
- Canada’s goal score
- 94/ 100
- −0.8 points since 2015; 5th in the G7
- G7 countries improving
- 4 of 7
- None decreasing
- G7 achieved or with challenges remaining
- 4 of 7
- 3 significant, 0 major challenges
How the G7 compare
Goal 11 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 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proportion of urban population living in slums (%) | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Annual mean concentration of PM2.5 (μg/m³) | 10 | 9.6 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 13.3 | 13.4 | 8.1 | 8.6 |
| Access to improved water source, piped (% of urban population) | 98 | 98.3 | 100 | 100 | – | – | 100 | 99.6 |
| Population with rent overburden (%) † | 10 | 19.8 | 11.3 | 9.23 | 14.3 | 19 | 18.5 | 29 |
| Urban population with access to points of interest within a 15min walk (%) † | 90 | 83.1 | 97.9 | 97.7 | 96.3 | 86.7 | 98.8 | 57.7 |
| Population with convenient access to public transport in cities (%) | 80 | 83.5 | 96 | 81.8 | 93.2 | 73.8 | 95.9 | 60.9 |
Explore one indicator over time
Population with rent overburden (%)
Percentage of the population living in households where the total housing costs represent more than 40 % of disposable income.
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The rest of the world
Goal 11 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 11 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.
Rent overburden data for some countries are several years old. How should a monitoring report handle stale data when assigning a trend?
Link this goal to the Housing module of EnviroSocial Canada: which Canadian indicator would you add to Goal 11?
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.