Goal 16 · Peace
Peace, justice and strong institutions
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
- Canada’s rating
- Significant
- Stagnating
- Canada’s goal score
- 80.9/ 100
- −8.1 points since 2015; 4th in the G7
- G7 countries improving
- 0 of 7
- None decreasing
- G7 achieved or with challenges remaining
- 2 of 7
- 4 significant, 1 major challenges
How the G7 compare
Goal 16 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 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homicides (per 100,000 population) | 1.5 | 1.98 | 1.33 | 0.92 | 0.55 | 0.23 | 1 | 5.76 |
| Crime is effectively controlled (worst 0-1 best) | 0.8 | 0.902 | 0.816 | 0.905 | 0.796 | 0.93 | 0.899 | 0.834 |
| Unsentenced detainees (% of prison population) | 30 | 46.9 | 25.8 | 27 | 16.8 | 14.4 | 12.8 | 26.9 |
| Birth registrations with civil authority (% of children under age 5) | 98 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Corruption Perceptions Index (worst 0-100 best) | 60 | 75 | 66 | 77 | 53 | 71 | 70 | 64 |
| Children involved in child labor (%) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Exports of major conventional weapons (TIV per 100,000 population) ◆ | 0.04 | 0.568 | 4.64 | 2.09 | 2.68 | 0.017 | 1.55 | 3.77 |
| Press Freedom Index (worst 0-100 best) | 70 | 78.8 | 76.7 | 82.2 | 65.2 | 62.9 | 79.5 | 62.6 |
| Access to and affordability of justice (worst 0-1 best) | 0.65 | 0.556 | 0.643 | 0.753 | 0.595 | 0.654 | 0.531 | 0.471 |
| Timeliness of administrative proceedings (worst 0-1 best) | 0.7 | 0.659 | 0.685 | 0.764 | 0.429 | 0.763 | 0.668 | 0.522 |
| Expropriations are lawful and adequately compensated (worst 0-1 best) | 0.7 | 0.77 | 0.746 | 0.921 | 0.615 | 0.754 | 0.721 | 0.672 |
| Persons held in prison (per 100,000 population) † | 100 | 90.7 | 114 | 70 | 103 | 32.3 | 134 | 529 |
Explore one indicator over time
Unsentenced detainees (% of prison population)
Unsentenced prisoners as a percentage of overall prison population. Persons held unsentenced or pre-trial refers to persons held in prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions who are untried, pre-trial or awaiting a first instance decision on their case from a competent authority regarding their conviction or acquittal.
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The rest of the world
Goal 16 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 16 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.
Which Goal 16 indicators are official statistics and which are expert assessments? How should that affect how much weight you give them?
Exports of major conventional weapons count against Goal 16. Which G7 countries are most affected, and is this a fair indicator for peace?
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.