How does Australia compare to other rich countries on the SDGs?
Compare Australia with the other wealthy countries on a few Sustainable Development Goal measures — air quality, how much material the country gets through, young people out of work and study, and women in parliament.
It depends entirely which goal you pick. Australia has the 8th lowest fine-particle pollution of 38 OECD members and the 4th highest share of women in parliament, but consumes 48 tonnes of material per person a year — 2.8 times the median. On young people out of work it is unremarkable.
- Rank on fine particle pollution
- 8 of 38
- 2023, cleanest first · 6.2 µg/m³ against a median of 8.9 and a WHO guideline of 5
- Rank on material consumption per person
- 4 of 36
- 2022, highest first; 26 of the 36 country-reported, 10 estimated · 47.7 t against a median of 17.1
- Rank on women in parliament
- 4 of 38
- 2026, highest first · 46% against a median of 35.3%
- Rank on young people out of work and study
- 14 of 33
- 2024, lowest first · 8.5% against a median of 9.9%
1. Eighth lowest fine-particle pollution in the OECD, by two hundredths of a microgram
Australia's 6.2 micrograms per cubic metre is 8th lowest in the OECD, well under the median of 8.9 and a third of what South Korea, Türkiye or Chile breathe. The seven cleaner than Australia are Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Iceland, New Zealand and Portugal — not one profile but several. Portugal is 6.208 against Australia's 6.226, so seventh and eighth are two hundredths of a microgram apart. It is still above the World Health Organization's guideline of 5, which only Finland and Sweden meet among the 38. Nothing in this series separates geography from policy, and it measures one pollutant: rankings on ozone or nitrogen dioxide would differ.
Fine particulate matter, 2023
Population-weighted annual mean PM2.5. Lower is better
- Median of the 38 shown
- New Zealand
- Australia
- Other series
Micrograms per cubic metre
United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Indicators Global Database — indicator 11.6.2, fine particulate matter, Extracted September 2026 SDG Indicators Global Database — indicator 11.6.2, fine particulate matter
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| Micrograms per cubic metre | Median of the 38 shown | Other OECD members | New Zealand | Australia |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finland | 8.9 | 4.1 | — | — |
| Sweden | 8.9 | 4.6 | — | — |
| Norway | 8.9 | 5.1 | — | — |
| Estonia | 8.9 | 5.3 | — | — |
| Iceland | 8.9 | 5.6 | — | — |
| New Zealand | 8.9 | — | 5.9 | — |
| Portugal | 8.9 | 6.2 | — | — |
| Australia | 8.9 | — | — | 6.2 |
| Ireland | 8.9 | 6.6 | — | — |
| Luxembourg | 8.9 | 7.0 | — | — |
| Denmark | 8.9 | 7.7 | — | — |
| United Kingdom | 8.9 | 8.0 | — | — |
| Spain | 8.9 | 8.0 | — | — |
| Switzerland | 8.9 | 8.1 | — | — |
| Lithuania | 8.9 | 8.2 | — | — |
| Japan | 8.9 | 8.5 | — | — |
| Germany | 8.9 | 8.7 | — | — |
| France | 8.9 | 8.8 | — | — |
| Canada | 8.9 | 8.8 | — | — |
| Netherlands | 8.9 | 9.0 | — | — |
| Austria | 8.9 | 9.5 | — | — |
| Belgium | 8.9 | 9.6 | — | — |
| Latvia | 8.9 | 9.6 | — | — |
| United States | 8.9 | 9.8 | — | — |
| Czechia | 8.9 | 11.0 | — | — |
| Hungary | 8.9 | 11.2 | — | — |
| Slovenia | 8.9 | 12.1 | — | — |
| Slovakia | 8.9 | 12.3 | — | — |
| Italy | 8.9 | 13.3 | — | — |
| Greece | 8.9 | 14.4 | — | — |
| Colombia | 8.9 | 14.6 | — | — |
| Poland | 8.9 | 14.7 | — | — |
| Costa Rica | 8.9 | 15.5 | — | — |
| Mexico | 8.9 | 16.1 | — | — |
| Israel | 8.9 | 16.9 | — | — |
| South Korea | 8.9 | 19.2 | — | — |
| Türkiye | 8.9 | 20.6 | — | — |
| Chile | 8.9 | 21.5 | — | — |
2. And fourth-highest domestic material consumption in the OECD
counts everything extracted or imported and used inside the country — ore, coal, crops, sand. Australia gets through 48 tonnes a person, 4th highest of the 36 members with usable figures and 2.8 times the median of 17.1, behind Mexico, Canada and Chile. Exports are netted off, not counted: the measure is domestic extraction plus imports less exports, so the iron ore and coal that leave the country are already subtracted and Australia's domestic extraction per person is larger still.
Domestic material consumption per person, 2022
Tonnes of material consumed per person. Lower is better. Japan and New Zealand are omitted — see the caveats
- Median of the 36 shown
- Australia
- Other series
Tonnes per person
United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Indicators Global Database — indicator 8.4.2, domestic material consumption, Extracted September 2026 SDG Indicators Global Database — indicator 8.4.2, domestic material consumption
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| Tonnes per person | Median of the 36 shown | Other OECD members | Australia |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 17.1 | 128 | — |
| Canada | 17.1 | 53.8 | — |
| Chile | 17.1 | 52.3 | — |
| Australia | 17.1 | — | 47.7 |
| Finland | 17.1 | 44.2 | — |
| Estonia | 17.1 | 26.7 | — |
| Denmark | 17.1 | 25.7 | — |
| Sweden | 17.1 | 24.4 | — |
| Ireland | 17.1 | 24.0 | — |
| Luxembourg | 17.1 | 23.5 | — |
| United States | 17.1 | 22.5 | — |
| Israel | 17.1 | 22.5 | — |
| Norway | 17.1 | 22.5 | — |
| Lithuania | 17.1 | 20.1 | — |
| Iceland | 17.1 | 19.0 | — |
| Poland | 17.1 | 18.3 | — |
| Austria | 17.1 | 17.5 | — |
| South Korea | 17.1 | 17.4 | — |
| Latvia | 17.1 | 16.9 | — |
| Czechia | 17.1 | 15.8 | — |
| Portugal | 17.1 | 15.0 | — |
| Slovenia | 17.1 | 14.7 | — |
| Germany | 17.1 | 13.7 | — |
| Hungary | 17.1 | 13.5 | — |
| Belgium | 17.1 | 12.9 | — |
| France | 17.1 | 11.8 | — |
| Türkiye | 17.1 | 11.6 | — |
| Slovakia | 17.1 | 11.3 | — |
| Greece | 17.1 | 10.9 | — |
| Switzerland | 17.1 | 10.4 | — |
| Costa Rica | 17.1 | 9.9 | — |
| Netherlands | 17.1 | 9.4 | — |
| Spain | 17.1 | 9.0 | — |
| Italy | 17.1 | 8.9 | — |
| United Kingdom | 17.1 | 8.8 | — |
| Colombia | 17.1 | 7.8 | — |
3. Near the top on women in parliament
At 46 per cent Australia is 4th of 38, above every G7 country and above the median of 35.3. Only Mexico, Costa Rica and Iceland sit higher — and Iceland by three hundredths of a point. Australia reached this position in two elections: in 2016 it was 21st of 38, on 26.67 per cent against a median of 27.86.
Seats held by women in parliament, 2026
Lower or single chamber, at 1 January. Higher is better
- Median of the 38 shown
- New Zealand
- Australia
- Other series
Per cent of seats
United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Indicators Global Database — indicator 5.5.1, seats held by women in national parliaments, Extracted September 2026 SDG Indicators Global Database — indicator 5.5.1, seats held by women in national parliaments
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| Per cent of seats | Median of the 38 shown | Other OECD members | New Zealand | Australia |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 35.3% | 50.4% | — | — |
| Costa Rica | 35.3% | 49.1% | — | — |
| Iceland | 35.3% | 46.0% | — | — |
| Australia | 35.3% | — | — | 46.0% |
| New Zealand | 35.3% | — | 45.5% | — |
| Finland | 35.3% | 45.5% | — | — |
| Sweden | 35.3% | 44.7% | — | — |
| Denmark | 35.3% | 44.1% | — | — |
| Spain | 35.3% | 44.0% | — | — |
| Netherlands | 35.3% | 43.3% | — | — |
| Norway | 35.3% | 42.6% | — | — |
| Belgium | 35.3% | 40.7% | — | — |
| United Kingdom | 35.3% | 40.6% | — | — |
| Switzerland | 35.3% | 39.7% | — | — |
| Slovenia | 35.3% | 37.8% | — | — |
| Latvia | 35.3% | 37.0% | — | — |
| Portugal | 35.3% | 36.5% | — | — |
| France | 35.3% | 36.2% | — | — |
| Austria | 35.3% | 35.5% | — | — |
| Luxembourg | 35.3% | 35.0% | — | — |
| Chile | 35.3% | 34.8% | — | — |
| Czechia | 35.3% | 33.5% | — | — |
| Italy | 35.3% | 32.8% | — | — |
| Germany | 35.3% | 32.5% | — | — |
| Poland | 35.3% | 31.5% | — | — |
| Canada | 35.3% | 30.3% | — | — |
| Estonia | 35.3% | 29.7% | — | — |
| Colombia | 35.3% | 29.4% | — | — |
| United States | 35.3% | 28.9% | — | — |
| Lithuania | 35.3% | 28.4% | — | — |
| Israel | 35.3% | 25.8% | — | — |
| Ireland | 35.3% | 25.0% | — | — |
| Greece | 35.3% | 23.9% | — | — |
| Slovakia | 35.3% | 22.0% | — | — |
| South Korea | 35.3% | 20.8% | — | — |
| Türkiye | 35.3% | 19.9% | — | — |
| Hungary | 35.3% | 15.6% | — | — |
| Japan | 35.3% | 15.5% | — | — |
4. Unremarkable on young people, and low on aid
On the share of 15 to 24 year olds neither working nor Australia is 14th of 33 at 8.5 per cent, just better than the median of 9.9 and a long way behind Iceland and the Netherlands. Australia also sits low on as a share of national income, 29th of the 42 donors reporting for 2025, which is not charted here because it has its own page. The two ranks run over different comparator sets and are not ordered against each other.
Young people not in employment, education or training, 2024
Aged 15 to 24. Lower is better
- Median of the 33 shown
- New Zealand
- Australia
- Other series
Per cent of 15–24 year olds
United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Indicators Global Database — indicator 8.6.1, young people not in employment, education or training, Extracted September 2026 SDG Indicators Global Database — indicator 8.6.1, young people not in employment, education or training
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| Per cent of 15–24 year olds | Median of the 33 shown | Other OECD members | New Zealand | Australia |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iceland | 9.9% | 4.0% | — | — |
| Netherlands | 9.9% | 4.1% | — | — |
| Czechia | 9.9% | 4.6% | — | — |
| Sweden | 9.9% | 5.6% | — | — |
| Ireland | 9.9% | 5.7% | — | — |
| Norway | 9.9% | 5.8% | — | — |
| Denmark | 9.9% | 6.9% | — | — |
| Switzerland | 9.9% | 6.9% | — | — |
| Slovenia | 9.9% | 7.1% | — | — |
| Germany | 9.9% | 7.6% | — | — |
| Portugal | 9.9% | 7.8% | — | — |
| Belgium | 9.9% | 8.2% | — | — |
| Finland | 9.9% | 8.3% | — | — |
| Australia | 9.9% | — | — | 8.5% |
| Slovakia | 9.9% | 8.8% | — | — |
| Spain | 9.9% | 9.4% | — | — |
| Latvia | 9.9% | 9.9% | — | — |
| Hungary | 9.9% | 10.0% | — | — |
| Estonia | 9.9% | 10.2% | — | — |
| Luxembourg | 9.9% | 10.2% | — | — |
| Greece | 9.9% | 10.4% | — | — |
| Poland | 9.9% | 10.7% | — | — |
| United States | 9.9% | 11.6% | — | — |
| Italy | 9.9% | 12.0% | — | — |
| France | 9.9% | 12.6% | — | — |
| New Zealand | 9.9% | — | 12.8% | — |
| Canada | 9.9% | 13.0% | — | — |
| Austria | 9.9% | 13.3% | — | — |
| Chile | 9.9% | 13.8% | — | — |
| United Kingdom | 9.9% | 14.3% | — | — |
| Lithuania | 9.9% | 14.9% | — | — |
| Israel | 9.9% | 15.3% | — | — |
| Costa Rica | 9.9% | 18.3% | — | — |
What to watch for
- The comparison set is the 38 members of the OECD, which is a workable stand-in for 'other rich countries' but includes Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile and Türkiye, whose incomes are well below Australia's. Where they sit at one end of a chart, that is what is doing it.
- Not every indicator covers every member. Air quality and parliamentary representation cover all 38; young people out of work covers 33; material consumption covers 36 of the 38 after two are dropped.
- Japan and New Zealand are omitted from the material consumption chart because the database reports them at or just below zero tonnes per person, for every year from 2019 to 2022. A country cannot consume a negative quantity of material, so those figures are wrong rather than low, and charting them would put two false points at the bottom of the ranking.
- Each of these series is compiled by an international agency to one standard, which is what makes the comparison valid. The Australian figure in each chart will therefore differ from the ABS or Australian agency figure for the same concept: the harmonised series is the right one for ranking countries and the domestic series is the right one for stating the Australian fact.
- The reference line on each chart is the median of the countries shown, not an OECD average. A mean of national rates is not the rate of any population, and the median is used here only to mark the middle of the distribution. Each median is an Aard calculation over the members in that response, and the evidence record for each chart carries every one of them with its position, so both the median and Australia's rank can be checked.
- Two of these four ranks turn on less than the page rounds to. Portugal is 6.208 micrograms and Australia 6.226; Iceland is 46.03 per cent and Australia 46.00. A rank is a useful summary and a brittle one, and a revision of a hundredth would move either of them.
- The four indicators are not all the same kind of number, and one chart mixes two kinds within itself. Every air-quality observation is a WHO estimate, while the material-consumption ranking sets 26 country-reported figures against 10 estimated ones, Australia's among the estimated. Parliamentary representation and the youth series are country data.
- Reference years differ by indicator because the custodians publish on different cycles: air quality is 2023, material consumption 2022, young people 2024 and parliamentary representation at 1 January 2026. No chart mixes years within itself.
- Mexico's material-consumption figure sets the top of that chart's scale and sits on an unstable series: the same vintage gives it 12.3 tonnes a person in 2010, 40.4 in 2019 and 101.2 in 2020, a two-and-a-half-fold rise in the pandemic year when throughput fell almost everywhere. The page screens the bottom of this ranking for impossible values and does not screen the top. Australia's rank and the median do not depend on Mexico.
References
Data extracted . Reviewed 2026-09-16 by Aard Data Team. Each numbered entry is the publication that documents the figures; the calls beneath it are the ones the retrieval actually made, and each figure is numbered under its publication — 1.1, 1.2 — and links to the narrowest call that returns it.
- [1]United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Indicators Global Database — indicator 11.6.2, fine particulate matter, Extracted September 2026Vintage: Series EN_ATM_PM25, population-weighted annual mean PM2.5 by degree of urbanisation. Modelled estimates combining satellite retrievals, chemical transport models and ground measurements. The World Health Organization's 2021 air quality guideline for annual mean PM2.5 is 5 micrograms per cubic metre.
- API Calls: · extracted 16 September 2026
UNSD-SDG:EN_ATM_PM25https://unstats.un.org/SDGAPI/v1/sdg/Series/Data?seriesCode=EN_ATM_PM25&pageSize=20000&timePeriodStart=2023&timePeriodEnd=2023- 1.18.93 µg/m³derived here · 2023 · Median of the 38 OECD members in this response
OECD median· the median of the OECD members' values in this response - 1.24.118 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Finland
ALLAREA.246 - 1.34.62 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Sweden
ALLAREA.752 - 1.45.093 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Norway
ALLAREA.578 - 1.55.249 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Estonia
ALLAREA.233 - 1.65.645 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Iceland
ALLAREA.352 - 1.75.902 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · New Zealand
ALLAREA.554 - 1.86.208 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Portugal
ALLAREA.620 - 1.96.226 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Australia
ALLAREA.36 - 1.106.623 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Ireland
ALLAREA.372 - 1.116.975 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Luxembourg
ALLAREA.442 - 1.127.713 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Denmark
ALLAREA.208 - 1.137.948 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
ALLAREA.826 - 1.148.029 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Spain
ALLAREA.724 - 1.158.128 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Switzerland
ALLAREA.756 - 1.168.171 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Lithuania
ALLAREA.440 - 1.178.497 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Japan
ALLAREA.392 - 1.188.692 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Germany
ALLAREA.276 - 1.198.806 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · France
ALLAREA.250 - 1.208.829 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Canada
ALLAREA.124 - 1.219.032 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
ALLAREA.528 - 1.229.535 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Austria
ALLAREA.40 - 1.239.562 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Belgium
ALLAREA.56 - 1.249.644 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Latvia
ALLAREA.428 - 1.259.831 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · United States of America
ALLAREA.840 - 1.2610.968 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Czechia
ALLAREA.203 - 1.2711.21 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Hungary
ALLAREA.348 - 1.2812.121 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Slovenia
ALLAREA.705 - 1.2912.312 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Slovakia
ALLAREA.703 - 1.3013.3 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Italy
ALLAREA.380 - 1.3114.381 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Greece
ALLAREA.300 - 1.3214.557 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Colombia
ALLAREA.170 - 1.3314.732 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Poland
ALLAREA.616 - 1.3415.482 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Costa Rica
ALLAREA.188 - 1.3516.131 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Mexico
ALLAREA.484 - 1.3616.898 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Israel
ALLAREA.376 - 1.3719.182 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Republic of Korea
ALLAREA.410 - 1.3820.582 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Türkiye
ALLAREA.792 - 1.3921.473 µg/m³whole series · 2023 · Chile
ALLAREA.152
ALL 38 OECD MEMBERS IN THIS RESPONSE, so the rank and the median reproduce from this record alone rather than from a handful of named countries. THE SELECTION NEEDS Location=ALLAREA: the call returns five degrees of urbanisation per country and the page compares the all-areas figure. Every observation is Nature=E, a WHO estimate. Note how close the ranking is at Australia's position: Portugal is 6.208 and Australia 6.226, so 7th and 8th are separated by two hundredths of a microgram. Omitting areaCode and pinning the year returns every reporting country; the page keeps the 38 OECD members, which is the comparison set the first caveat describes and the only indicator on the page that covers all of them alongside parliamentary representation. Australia's rank and the median are read off this one response.
- 1.18.93 µg/m³derived here · 2023 · Median of the 38 OECD members in this response
- Read from the publication · extracted 16 September 2026
Read from the publication, not from a call: Indicator 11.6.2 metadata, WHO 2021 global air quality guideline for annual mean PM2.5, SDG Indicators Global Database
- 1.405 µg/m³ · 2021
The guideline is a health threshold the WHO sets, not an Australian measurement, so it is its own record and the charts draw it as a reference line. The SDG Indicators Global Database serves this as series metadata rather than as an observation, so there is no call to name; the figures beside it on the page cite the call that returned them.
Source: United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Indicators Global Database, indicator 11.6.2 (custodian agency: World Health Organization), extracted 16 September 2026. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. - [2]United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Indicators Global Database — indicator 5.5.1, seats held by women in national parliaments, Extracted September 2026Vintage: Series SG_GEN_PARL. Seats in the single or lower chamber as at 1 January of the year shown, from the IPU Parline database. An election changes the figure reported for the following January, not for the year the election was held.
- API Calls: · extracted 16 September 2026
UNSD-SDG:SG_GEN_PARLhttps://unstats.un.org/SDGAPI/v1/sdg/Series/Data?seriesCode=SG_GEN_PARL&pageSize=20000&timePeriodStart=2026&timePeriodEnd=2026- 2.135.26 % of seatsderived here · 2026 · Median of the 38 OECD members in this response
OECD median· the median of the OECD members' values in this response - 2.250.4 % of seats · 2026 · Mexico
SG_GEN_PARL.484 - 2.349.12 % of seats · 2026 · Costa Rica
SG_GEN_PARL.188 - 2.446.03 % of seats · 2026 · Iceland
SG_GEN_PARL.352 - 2.546 % of seats · 2026 · Australia
SG_GEN_PARL.36 - 2.645.53 % of seats · 2026 · New Zealand
SG_GEN_PARL.554 - 2.745.5 % of seats · 2026 · Finland
SG_GEN_PARL.246 - 2.844.7 % of seats · 2026 · Sweden
SG_GEN_PARL.752 - 2.944.13 % of seats · 2026 · Denmark
SG_GEN_PARL.208 - 2.1044 % of seats · 2026 · Spain
SG_GEN_PARL.724 - 2.1143.33 % of seats · 2026 · Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
SG_GEN_PARL.528 - 2.1242.6 % of seats · 2026 · Norway
SG_GEN_PARL.578 - 2.1340.67 % of seats · 2026 · Belgium
SG_GEN_PARL.56 - 2.1440.62 % of seats · 2026 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
SG_GEN_PARL.826 - 2.1539.7 % of seats · 2026 · Switzerland
SG_GEN_PARL.756 - 2.1637.78 % of seats · 2026 · Slovenia
SG_GEN_PARL.705 - 2.1737 % of seats · 2026 · Latvia
SG_GEN_PARL.428 - 2.1836.52 % of seats · 2026 · Portugal
SG_GEN_PARL.620 - 2.1936.17 % of seats · 2026 · France
SG_GEN_PARL.250 - 2.2035.52 % of seats · 2026 · Austria
SG_GEN_PARL.40 - 2.2135 % of seats · 2026 · Luxembourg
SG_GEN_PARL.442 - 2.2234.84 % of seats · 2026 · Chile
SG_GEN_PARL.152 - 2.2333.5 % of seats · 2026 · Czechia
SG_GEN_PARL.203 - 2.2432.75 % of seats · 2026 · Italy
SG_GEN_PARL.380 - 2.2532.54 % of seats · 2026 · Germany
SG_GEN_PARL.276 - 2.2631.52 % of seats · 2026 · Poland
SG_GEN_PARL.616 - 2.2730.32 % of seats · 2026 · Canada
SG_GEN_PARL.124 - 2.2829.7 % of seats · 2026 · Estonia
SG_GEN_PARL.233 - 2.2929.41 % of seats · 2026 · Colombia
SG_GEN_PARL.170 - 2.3028.87 % of seats · 2026 · United States of America
SG_GEN_PARL.840 - 2.3128.37 % of seats · 2026 · Lithuania
SG_GEN_PARL.440 - 2.3225.83 % of seats · 2026 · Israel
SG_GEN_PARL.376 - 2.3325 % of seats · 2026 · Ireland
SG_GEN_PARL.372 - 2.3423.91 % of seats · 2026 · Greece
SG_GEN_PARL.300 - 2.3522 % of seats · 2026 · Slovakia
SG_GEN_PARL.703 - 2.3620.81 % of seats · 2026 · Republic of Korea
SG_GEN_PARL.410 - 2.3719.93 % of seats · 2026 · Türkiye
SG_GEN_PARL.792 - 2.3815.58 % of seats · 2026 · Hungary
SG_GEN_PARL.348 - 2.3915.48 % of seats · 2026 · Japan
SG_GEN_PARL.392
ALL 38 OECD MEMBERS IN THIS RESPONSE, so the rank and the median reproduce from this record alone rather than from a handful of named countries. Seats in the single or lower chamber at 1 January. Nature=C throughout. Iceland is 46.03 and Australia 46.00, so third and fourth place are separated by three hundredths of a point. The cross-country counterpart of the Australian series: the same indicator, one year, every reporting country, with the 38 OECD members kept. Australia's own history — below the median as recently as 2016 — comes from this same call's earlier years being visible in the Australia-only series, and the rank here is read off the 2026 response.
- 2.135.26 % of seatsderived here · 2026 · Median of the 38 OECD members in this response
- API Calls: · extracted 16 September 2026
UNSD-SDG:SG_GEN_PARLhttps://unstats.un.org/SDGAPI/v1/sdg/Series/Data?seriesCode=SG_GEN_PARL&pageSize=20000&timePeriodStart=2016&timePeriodEnd=2016- 2.4027.86 % of seatsderived here · 2016 · Median of the 38 OECD members, 2026
OECD median· the median of the OECD members' values in this response - 2.4126.67 % of seats · 2016 · Australia
SG_GEN_PARL.36
The 2016 counterpart of the 2026 comparison record, added because the page asserts that Australia was below the OECD median "as recently as 2016" and nothing retrieved supported it: the Australia-only series gives Australia's 26.67 and says nothing about where the other members sat. Now retrieved: the median of the 38 members at 1 January 2016 was 27.86 and Australia was 21th. The claim is true; it simply had no call behind it.
- 2.4027.86 % of seatsderived here · 2016 · Median of the 38 OECD members, 2026
Source: United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Indicators Global Database, indicator 5.5.1 (custodian agency: Inter-Parliamentary Union), extracted 16 September 2026. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. - [3]United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Indicators Global Database — indicator 8.4.2, domestic material consumption, Extracted September 2026Vintage: Series EN_MAT_DOMCMPC, domestic material consumption per capita, all products (product code ALP), 2022. Compiled by the UN Environment Programme from the Global Material Flows Database. Australia's total reconciles with the sum of its published product components. Twelve reporting areas, including Japan and New Zealand, carry values at or below zero for every year from 2019 to 2022 and are not usable.
- API Calls: · extracted 16 September 2026
UNSD-SDG:EN_MAT_DOMCMPChttps://unstats.un.org/SDGAPI/v1/sdg/Series/Data?seriesCode=EN_MAT_DOMCMPC&pageSize=20000&timePeriodStart=2022&timePeriodEnd=2022- 3.117.142 tonnes per personderived here · 2022 · Median of the 36 OECD members in this response
OECD median· the median of the OECD members' values in this response - 3.2128.226 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Mexico
ALP.484 - 3.353.819 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Canada
ALP.124 - 3.452.27 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Chile
ALP.152 - 3.547.657 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Australia
ALP.36 - 3.644.243 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Finland
ALP.246 - 3.726.741 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Estonia
ALP.233 - 3.825.7 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Denmark
ALP.208 - 3.924.399 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Sweden
ALP.752 - 3.1023.977 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Ireland
ALP.372 - 3.1123.492 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Luxembourg
ALP.442 - 3.1222.539 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · United States of America
ALP.840 - 3.1322.511 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Israel
ALP.376 - 3.1422.467 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Norway
ALP.578 - 3.1520.105 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Lithuania
ALP.440 - 3.1618.956 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Iceland
ALP.352 - 3.1718.308 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Poland
ALP.616 - 3.1817.52 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Austria
ALP.40 - 3.1917.379 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Republic of Korea
ALP.410 - 3.2016.905 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Latvia
ALP.428 - 3.2115.752 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Czechia
ALP.203 - 3.2215.037 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Portugal
ALP.620 - 3.2314.738 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Slovenia
ALP.705 - 3.2413.7 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Germany
ALP.276 - 3.2513.544 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Hungary
ALP.348 - 3.2612.909 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Belgium
ALP.56 - 3.2711.791 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · France
ALP.250 - 3.2811.608 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Türkiye
ALP.792 - 3.2911.31 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Slovakia
ALP.703 - 3.3010.885 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Greece
ALP.300 - 3.3110.346 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Switzerland
ALP.756 - 3.329.91 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Costa Rica
ALP.188 - 3.339.396 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
ALP.528 - 3.349.043 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Spain
ALP.724 - 3.358.884 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Italy
ALP.380 - 3.368.77 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
ALP.826 - 3.377.78 tonnes per personwhole series · 2022 · Colombia
ALP.170
ALL 36 OECD MEMBERS IN THIS RESPONSE, so the rank and the median reproduce from this record alone rather than from a handful of named countries. THE SELECTION NEEDS Type of product=ALP, all products: the call returns seven product types per country and Australia's metal-ores figure alone is 16.328, which would rank it quite differently. Japan (-0.025) and New Zealand (-0.348) are dropped because the response reports them below zero tonnes per person, which cannot be a quantity of material consumed. THE RANKING MIXES TWO PROVENANCES: 26 of the 36 charted countries are Nature=C, country-reported, and 10 are Nature=E, estimated — Australia, Canada, Chile and Mexico among the estimated, Finland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands among the reported. An earlier version of this note said every observation was estimated, which hid that. Mexico's 128.226 also sits on a series that runs 12.27 in 2010, 40.42 in 2019 and 101.15 in 2020, a two-and-a-half-fold rise in the pandemic year; Australia's rank and the median do not depend on it, but it sets the top of the chart's scale. 36 of the 38 OECD members. Japan and New Zealand are dropped because this response reports them at or just below zero tonnes per person for every year from 2019 to 2022, which cannot be a quantity of material consumed — the omission and its reason are read straight off the call, which is what the third caveat states.
- 3.117.142 tonnes per personderived here · 2022 · Median of the 36 OECD members in this response
Source: United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Indicators Global Database, indicator 8.4.2 (custodian agency: UN Environment Programme), extracted 16 September 2026. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. - [4]United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Indicators Global Database — indicator 8.6.1, young people not in employment, education or training, Extracted September 2026Vintage: Series SL_TLF_NEET_19ICLS, aged 15–24, compiled by the ILO from ABS Labour Force Survey microdata on the 19th ICLS standard. The 13th ICLS series SL_TLF_NEET is a separate series and is not spliced to it.
- API Calls: · extracted 16 September 2026
UNSD-SDG:SL_TLF_NEET_19ICLShttps://unstats.un.org/SDGAPI/v1/sdg/Series/Data?seriesCode=SL_TLF_NEET_19ICLS&pageSize=20000&timePeriodStart=2024&timePeriodEnd=2024- 4.19.89 % of 15-24 year oldsderived here · 2024 · Median of the 33 OECD members in this response
OECD median· the median of the OECD members' values in this response - 4.23.97 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Iceland
15-24.BOTHSEX.352 - 4.34.14 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
15-24.BOTHSEX.528 - 4.44.62 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Czechia
15-24.BOTHSEX.203 - 4.55.58 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Sweden
15-24.BOTHSEX.752 - 4.65.67 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Ireland
15-24.BOTHSEX.372 - 4.75.82 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Norway
15-24.BOTHSEX.578 - 4.86.9 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Denmark
15-24.BOTHSEX.208 - 4.96.91 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Switzerland
15-24.BOTHSEX.756 - 4.107.13 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Slovenia
15-24.BOTHSEX.705 - 4.117.58 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Germany
15-24.BOTHSEX.276 - 4.127.76 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Portugal
15-24.BOTHSEX.620 - 4.138.15 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Belgium
15-24.BOTHSEX.56 - 4.148.28 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Finland
15-24.BOTHSEX.246 - 4.158.53 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Australia
15-24.BOTHSEX.36 - 4.168.75 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Slovakia
15-24.BOTHSEX.703 - 4.179.39 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Spain
15-24.BOTHSEX.724 - 4.189.89 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Latvia
15-24.BOTHSEX.428 - 4.199.98 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Hungary
15-24.BOTHSEX.348 - 4.2010.23 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Estonia
15-24.BOTHSEX.233 - 4.2110.23 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Luxembourg
15-24.BOTHSEX.442 - 4.2210.43 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Greece
15-24.BOTHSEX.300 - 4.2310.65 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Poland
15-24.BOTHSEX.616 - 4.2411.6 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · United States of America
15-24.BOTHSEX.840 - 4.2511.96 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Italy
15-24.BOTHSEX.380 - 4.2612.57 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · France
15-24.BOTHSEX.250 - 4.2712.78 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · New Zealand
15-24.BOTHSEX.554 - 4.2812.99 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Canada
15-24.BOTHSEX.124 - 4.2913.26 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Austria
15-24.BOTHSEX.40 - 4.3013.8 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Chile
15-24.BOTHSEX.152 - 4.3114.3 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
15-24.BOTHSEX.826 - 4.3214.91 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Lithuania
15-24.BOTHSEX.440 - 4.3315.27 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Israel
15-24.BOTHSEX.376 - 4.3418.28 % of 15-24 year oldswhole series · 2024 · Costa Rica
15-24.BOTHSEX.188
ALL 33 OECD MEMBERS IN THIS RESPONSE, so the rank and the median reproduce from this record alone rather than from a handful of named countries. THE SELECTION NEEDS Sex=BOTHSEX and Age=15-24: the call returns three sexes per country. Only 33 of the 38 members report this series on the 19th ICLS standard for 2024. Nature=C throughout. Only 33 of the 38 OECD members report this series on the 19th ICLS standard for 2024, which is the coverage the second caveat states and is a property of this response.
- 4.19.89 % of 15-24 year oldsderived here · 2024 · Median of the 33 OECD members in this response
Source: United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Indicators Global Database, indicator 8.6.1 (custodian agency: International Labour Organization), extracted 16 September 2026. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. - [5]United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Indicators Global Database — indicator 17.2.1, official development assistance, 2000–2025Vintage: Custodian data supplied by the OECD Development Assistance Committee, DAC database 2026 release. Grant-equivalent series (DC_ODA_TOTGGE, DC_ODA_TOTLGE) begin with 2018 data; earlier years are on the net-disbursement basis (DC_ODA_TOTG) and the two are not a single series. The 2025 observations are OECD early estimates and are revised when detailed data is published. Values in constant 2024 United States dollars. The least-developed-countries series (DC_ODA_LDCG) is net disbursements including imputed multilateral flows.
- API Calls: · extracted 16 September 2026
UNSD-SDG:DC_ODA_TOTGGEhttps://unstats.un.org/SDGAPI/v1/sdg/Series/Data?seriesCode=DC_ODA_TOTGGE&pageSize=4000&timePeriodStart=2025- 5.142 reporting countriesderived here · 2025 · totalElements returned by the call, every country reporting DC_ODA_TOTGGE for 2025· the number of rows the call returned, not a value the response publishes
- 5.21.030721 %whole series · 2025 · Norway
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.578 - 5.30.992544 %whole series · 2025 · Luxembourg
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.442 - 5.40.849012 %whole series · 2025 · Sweden
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.752 - 5.50.723359 %whole series · 2025 · Denmark
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.208 - 5.60.612539 %whole series · 2025 · United Arab Emirates
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.784 - 5.70.579761 %whole series · 2025 · Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.528 - 5.80.558135 %whole series · 2025 · Germany
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.276 - 5.90.501037 %whole series · 2025 · Türkiye
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.792 - 5.100.459857 %whole series · 2025 · Switzerland
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.756 - 5.110.443185 %whole series · 2025 · Finland
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.246 - 5.120.432325 %whole series · 2025 · Qatar
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.634 - 5.130.43152 %whole series · 2025 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.826 - 5.140.42469 %whole series · 2025 · Ireland
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.372 - 5.150.423334 %whole series · 2025 · France
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.250 - 5.160.369947 %whole series · 2025 · Belgium
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.56 - 5.170.345139 %whole series · 2025 · Japan
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.392 - 5.180.337354 %whole series · 2025 · Iceland
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.352 - 5.190.328961 %whole series · 2025 · Austria
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.40 - 5.200.316411 %whole series · 2025 · Canada
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.124 - 5.210.296433 %whole series · 2025 · Italy
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.380 - 5.220.272838 %whole series · 2025 · New Zealand
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.554 - 5.230.271401 %whole series · 2025 · Spain
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.724 - 5.240.235547 %whole series · 2025 · Croatia
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.191 - 5.250.21574 %whole series · 2025 · Slovenia
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.705 - 5.260.211562 %whole series · 2025 · Lithuania
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.440 - 5.270.205112 %whole series · 2025 · Malta
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.470 - 5.280.203341 %whole series · 2025 · Republic of Korea
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.410 - 5.290.193484 %whole series · 2025 · Estonia
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.233 - 5.300.183803 %whole series · 2025 · Australia
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.36 - 5.310.179775 %whole series · 2025 · Latvia
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.428 - 5.320.178268 %whole series · 2025 · Portugal
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.620 - 5.330.16214 %whole series · 2025 · Poland
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.616 - 5.340.138966 %whole series · 2025 · Hungary
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.348 - 5.350.135476 %whole series · 2025 · Romania
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.642 - 5.360.132868 %whole series · 2025 · Slovakia
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.703 - 5.370.129766 %whole series · 2025 · Greece
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.300 - 5.380.11688 %whole series · 2025 · Bulgaria
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.100 - 5.390.116012 %whole series · 2025 · Czechia
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.203 - 5.400.112538 %whole series · 2025 · Kuwait
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.414 - 5.410.094008 %whole series · 2025 · United States of America
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.840 - 5.420.063293 %whole series · 2025 · Azerbaijan
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.31 - 5.430.051239 %whole series · 2025 · Israel
DC_ODA_TOTGGE.376
Omitting areaCode returns every reporter: all 42 rows for 2025 are recorded here, so the rank, the count above 0.7 per cent and every plotted value reproduce from this record alone. Every row carries Nature=C, country data, and the response's own footnote on every row reads "Grant equivalents, Based on OECD, DAC database, 2026, Provisional" — the 2025 figures are provisional and are revised. Which twenty donors are "largest by volume" was settled from the companion call on the level series, https://unstats.un.org/SDGAPI/v1/sdg/Series/Data?seriesCode=DC_ODA_TOTLGE&pageSize=4000&timePeriodStart=2025, sorted descending with European Union institutions dropped because they report ODA and have no GNI to divide it by. That selection is recorded here as a per-observation note rather than as a figure, because it is a selection rule and not a number the page prints. In order: United States of America, Germany, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Japan, France, Canada, Netherlands (Kingdom of the), Italy, Türkiye, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Republic of Korea, Australia, Denmark, United Arab Emirates, Belgium, Ireland, Austria. Luxembourg is second on the ratio and outside the twenty by volume, so the chart shows three of the four reporters at or above 0.7 per cent, not four.
Source: United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Indicators Global Database, indicator 17.2.1 (custodian agency: OECD Development Assistance Committee), extracted 16 September 2026. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO.