Goal 5 · People
Gender equality
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
- Canada’s rating
- Significant
- Moderately improving
- Canada’s goal score
- 83.2/ 100
- +3.1 points since 2015; 3rd in the G7
- G7 countries improving
- 6 of 7
- None decreasing
- G7 achieved or with challenges remaining
- 4 of 7
- 2 significant, 1 major challenges
How the G7 compare
Goal 5 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 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demand for family planning satisfied by modern methods (% of females aged 15 to 49) | 80 | 92.5 | 91.3 | 87.7 | 76.6 | 76.4 | 86.1 | 80.3 |
| Ratio of female-to-male mean years of education received (%) | 98 | 101 | 97.5 | 96.6 | 97.7 | 94.9 | 101 | 101 |
| Ratio of female-to-male labor force participation rate (%) | 70 | 87.3 | 86.4 | 83.7 | 70 | 78.2 | 87.4 | 84 |
| Seats held by women in national parliament (%) | 40 | 30.3 | 36.2 | 32.5 | 32.8 | 15.5 | 40.6 | 28.9 |
| Gender wage gap (% of male median wage) † | 8 | 16.5 | 6.58 | 13.5 | 5.11 | 20.7 | 13.1 | 17.3 |
Explore one indicator over time
Gender wage gap (% of male median wage)
The difference between male and female median wages of full-time employees and those self-employed, divided by the male median wage.
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The rest of the world
Goal 5 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 5 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.
Rank the G7 by seats held by women in parliament. How do electoral systems and quotas help explain the differences?
The gender wage gap is measured at the median. What would a gap measured at the 90th percentile tell you that the median doesn’t?
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.