Goal 14 · Planet
Life below water
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
- Canada’s rating
- Significant
- Moderately improving
- Canada’s goal score
- 63.2/ 100
- +4.1 points since 2015; 5th in the G7
- G7 countries improving
- 4 of 7
- None decreasing
- G7 achieved or with challenges remaining
- 0 of 7
- 5 significant, 2 major challenges
How the G7 compare
Goal 14 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 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean area that is protected in marine sites important to biodiversity (%) | 85 | 41.7 | 80.9 | 79.6 | 78.6 | 66.2 | 85.4 | 34.3 |
| Ocean Health Index: Clean Waters score (worst 0-100 best) | 80 | 91.5 | 61 | 58.1 | 63.7 | 77.7 | 70.7 | 84.5 |
| Fish caught from overexploited or collapsed stocks (% of total catch) | 25 | 36.3 | 21 | 25.6 | 52.3 | 60.9 | 20.1 | 23.9 |
| Fish caught by trawling or dredging (%) | 7 | 36.4 | 26.6 | 12.4 | 41.2 | 19.6 | 29.9 | 22 |
| Fish caught that are then discarded (%) | 5 | 5.06 | 12.9 | 7.95 | 7.77 | 9.24 | 4.67 | 8.71 |
| Marine biodiversity threats embodied in imports (per million population) ◆ | 0.2 | 0.902 | 0.443 | 0.282 | 0.301 | 1.01 | 0.215 | 0.455 |
Explore one indicator over time
Mean area that is protected in marine sites important to biodiversity (%)
The mean percentage area of marine Key Biodiversity Areas (sites that are important for the global persistence of marine biodiversity) that are protected.
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The rest of the world
Goal 14 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 14 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.
List the year of the latest data point for each Goal 14 indicator for Canada. What does that imply for a ‘trend’ assigned in 2026?
Protected area targets (30% by 2030 under the Kunming-Montreal framework) are about quantity. What indicator would capture whether protection is effective?
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.