Goal 8 · Prosperity
Decent work and economic growth
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
- Canada’s rating
- Challenges remain
- Moderately improving
- Canada’s goal score
- 82.7/ 100
- −0.1 points since 2015; 4th in the G7
- G7 countries improving
- 6 of 7
- None decreasing
- G7 achieved or with challenges remaining
- 5 of 7
- 2 significant, 0 major challenges
How the G7 compare
Goal 8 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 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adjusted GDP growth index (worst 0-100 best) | 75 | 67.7 | 70.3 | 71.1 | 74.4 | 59.7 | 67.9 | 72 |
| Victims of modern slavery (per 1,000 population) | 4 | 1.83 | 2.06 | 0.565 | 3.26 | 1.14 | 1.8 | 3.3 |
| Adults with an account at a bank or other financial institution (% of population aged 15 or over) | 80 | 98.4 | 99.2 | 98.3 | 86 | 98.5 | 99.3 | 97 |
| Unemployment rate (% of total labor force, ages 15+) | 5 | 7.29 | 7.65 | 3.83 | 6.22 | 2.38 | 4.91 | 4.44 |
| Fundamental labor rights are effectively guaranteed (worst 0-1 best) | 0.75 | 0.753 | 0.762 | 0.828 | 0.595 | 0.75 | 0.693 | 0.547 |
| Youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) (% of population aged 15 to 24) † | 10 | 9.59 | 11.3 | 6.92 | 20.2 | 6.17 | 10.4 | 13 |
Explore one indicator over time
Adjusted GDP growth index (worst 0-100 best)
The index measures the growth rate of GDP adjusted according to income levels (whereby rich countries are expected to grow less). The growth rate since 2015 was calculated where GRa=(At/A2015)^(1/(t-2015))-1 and where GRa is the growth rate for country A and At is the GDP per capita data for the year t in country A. The adjustment is as follows : ADJa= [GRa-(GRhic - 0,015*log(A2015/hic2015))] * 100, where GRhic is the average growth rate of high-income countries since 2015 and hic2015 is the average GDP per capita of high-income countries in 2015. The data was then normalized into an index using a min-max normalization and 5 as the upper limit and -15 as the lower limit.
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The rest of the world
Goal 8 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 8 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.
Why might an unemployment trend from 2015 to the latest year be misleading? Which year would you pick as a fairer end point?
Youth not in employment, education or training: which G7 countries do best, and what policies are associated with low rates?
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.