Goal 9 · Prosperity
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
- Canada’s rating
- Achieved
- Moderately improving
- Canada’s goal score
- 90.4/ 100
- +3 points since 2015; 6th in the G7
- G7 countries improving
- 7 of 7
- None decreasing
- G7 achieved or with challenges remaining
- 5 of 7
- 2 significant, 0 major challenges
How the G7 compare
Goal 9 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 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rural population with access to all-season roads (%) | 90 | 99.5 | 98.3 | 100 | 99.8 | 100 | 99.1 | 99.9 |
| Population using the internet (%) | 80 | 94.4 | 88.7 | 93.5 | 89.2 | 85.5 | 95.5 | 94.7 |
| Mobile broadband subscriptions (per 100 population) | 75 | 86.9 | 112 | 97.5 | 99.6 | 255 | 129 | 197 |
| Logistics Performance Index: Infrastructure Score (worst 1-5 best) | 3 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 3.9 |
| Score of top 3 universities in Times Higher Education (worst 0-100 best) | 30 | 80.9 | 73.2 | 79.8 | 62.2 | 74.4 | 96.7 | 97.3 |
| Articles published in academic journals (per 1,000 population) | 0.7 | 2.97 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 2.44 | 1.04 | 3.07 | 1.85 |
| Expenditure on research and development (% of GDP) | 1.5 | 1.79 | 2.18 | 3.15 | 1.38 | 3.44 | 2.68 | 3.45 |
| Total patent applications by applicant's origin (per million population) | 300 | 631 | 988 | 1,921 | 539 | 3,429 | 792 | 1,500 |
| Researchers (per 1,000 employed population) † | 8 | 11.3 | 11.8 | 11.2 | 6.81 | 10.2 | 9.23 | 10.6 |
| Female share of graduates from STEM fields at the tertiary level (%) † | 30 | 36.3 | 34.5 | 28.1 | 39.3 | 18.1 | 34.6 | 38.5 |
| E-government: Online Services Index (worst 0-1 best) | 0.8 | 0.855 | 0.844 | 0.924 | 0.762 | 0.943 | 0.953 | 0.914 |
Explore one indicator over time
Rural population with access to all-season roads (%)
Proportion of the rural population that lives within 2 km of an all-season road. An all-season road is one that is motorable throughout the year but may be temporarily unavailable during inclement weather.
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The rest of the world
Goal 9 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 9 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 9 indicators measure inputs and which measure outcomes? Propose one outcome indicator that would make the goal more meaningful.
Research spending in Canada is below several G7 peers. Does that matter for the other goals? Give an example.
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.