Goal 3 · People
Good health and well-being
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
- Canada’s rating
- Significant
- Moderately improving
- Canada’s goal score
- 94.6/ 100
- +0.5 points since 2015; best in the G7
- G7 countries improving
- 7 of 7
- None decreasing
- G7 achieved or with challenges remaining
- 2 of 7
- 5 significant, 0 major challenges
How the G7 compare
Goal 3 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 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) | 70 | 11.8 | 7.31 | 3.62 | 6.48 | 3.08 | 8.31 | 16.6 |
| Neonatal mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) | 12 | 3.39 | 2.84 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 0.868 | 3.04 | 3.65 |
| Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births) | 25 | 5.43 | 4.34 | 3.71 | 2.7 | 2.43 | 4.68 | 6.47 |
| Incidence of tuberculosis (per 100,000 population) | 10 | 6.2 | 7.8 | 5.4 | 5 | 9.8 | 9.7 | 3.2 |
| New HIV infections (per 1,000 uninfected population, all ages) | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | – |
| Age-standardized death rate due to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease in adults aged 30 to 70 years (%) | 15 | 9.7 | 10.2 | 11.6 | 9.1 | 8 | 11 | 13.7 |
| Age-standardized death rate due to air pollution (per 100,000 population) | 30 | 16.4 | 24 | 38.7 | 80.7 | 75.7 | 32.2 | 20.9 |
| Traffic deaths (per 100,000 population) | 8.5 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 3.3 | 5 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 14.2 |
| Life expectancy at birth (years) | 80 | 82.9 | 83.6 | 81.7 | 84 | 85 | 81.6 | 79.6 |
| Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 females aged 15 to 19) | 25 | 4.51 | 3.46 | 5.87 | 2.79 | 1.7 | 8.56 | 13.5 |
| Births attended by skilled health personnel (%) | 98 | 97.8 | 97.6 | 96.4 | 99.9 | 99.8 | – | 98.8 |
| Surviving infants who received 2 WHO-recommended vaccines (%) | 90 | 92 | 95 | 89 | 94 | 95 | 89 | 92 |
| Universal health coverage (UHC) index of service coverage (worst 0-100 best) | 80 | 92 | 82 | 87 | 82 | 86 | 88 | 88 |
| Subjective well-being (average ladder score, worst 0-10 best) | 6 | 6.74 | 6.59 | 6.88 | 6.57 | 6.13 | 6.69 | 6.82 |
| Gap in life expectancy at birth among regions (years) † | 3 | 10.8 | 11.4 | 5.85 | 3.5 | 2.53 | 7.3 | 8.8 |
| Gap in self-reported health status by income (percentage points) † | 20 | 13.2 | 22.3 | 29.5 | 11.7 | 16.5 | 20.4 | 21.7 |
| Daily smokers (% of population aged 15 and over) † | 18 | 8.7 | 23.1 | 14.6 | 19.5 | 15.7 | 10.5 | 8 |
Explore one indicator over time
Gap in life expectancy at birth among regions (years)
Difference between maximum and minimum regional life expectancy at birth among regions.
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The rest of the world
Goal 3 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 3 score, and which has the lowest? Do their dashboard colours tell the same story as their scores?
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Colours come from each country’s two worst indicators, while the score is the average of all indicators in the index.
Find the G7 country with the lowest life expectancy and the one with the highest. How large is the gap, and what other indicators on this page might help explain it?
Canada’s gap in life expectancy between regions is large. Which data would you need to explain it, and why is a national average not enough?
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.