Goal 6 · Planet
Clean water and sanitation
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
- Canada’s rating
- Significant
- Stagnating
- Canada’s goal score
- 87.6/ 100
- −0.8 points since 2015; 2nd 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 6 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 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population using at least basic drinking water services (%) | 98 | 98.3 | 100 | 100 | 99.9 | 99.2 | 100 | 100 |
| Population using at least basic sanitation services (%) | 95 | 98.6 | 98.6 | 99.2 | 99.9 | 99.9 | 99.1 | 99.6 |
| Freshwater withdrawal (% of available freshwater resources) | 25 | 3.72 | 20.6 | 31.5 | 29.8 | 35.4 | 14.4 | 24.5 |
| Anthropogenic wastewater that receives treatment (%) | 50 | 84 | 82 | 97.3 | 70 | 80.6 | 85.8 | 67.7 |
| Scarce water consumption embodied in imports (m³ H₂Oeq/capita) ◆ | 800 | 3,135 | 2,707 | 3,394 | 2,610 | 1,810 | 2,127 | 2,125 |
| Population using safely managed water services (%) † | 95 | 96.9 | 99.7 | 99.9 | 96.8 | 98.7 | 99.8 | 97.6 |
| Population using safely managed sanitation services (%) † | 90 | 81.3 | 90 | 96.8 | 78.2 | 99.2 | 97.8 | 97 |
Explore one indicator over time
Scarce water consumption embodied in imports (m³ H₂Oeq/capita)
Water scarcity is measured as water consumption weighted by scarcity indices.
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The rest of the world
Goal 6 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 6 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.
Canada shows near-universal access to drinking water nationally. Which groups or places could still lack it, and what data would reveal that?
Explain ‘scarce water embodied in imports’ to a non-specialist. Which consumption choices drive it?
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.