SDG 15
Life on Land
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of ecosystems.
Ireland: Significant challenges remain· Moderately improving
Official figures from the Sustainable Development Report 2026 (Sachs, Lafortune, Fuller, Iablonovski — SDSN), shown as published — only the layout is ours. The report is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by SDSN. Imported from their published database on 2026-09-21.
What this goal covers
- •Conserve and restore terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems
- •Halt deforestation and restore degraded forests
- •Combat desertification and restore degraded land
Simplified from the UN's official targets for this goal.
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Goal 15 score, by country
Ireland is in rank group 47 of 212 (out of 212 countries with a score for this goal).
What makes up Ireland's score (69 out of 100)
The average of 6 indicator scores, one per official target area. Each bar scores Ireland from 0 to 100 on that indicator: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0.
- 15.2 Forest management · Annual forest area change rate1% (2025)100
- 15.1 Biodiversity sites · Land biodiversity sites covered by protection83.3% (2025)100
- 15.5 Species · Red List Index (species survival)0.9 (2025)85
- 15.4 Mountain ecosystems · Mountain biodiversity sites covered by protection65.7% (2025)76
- 15.1 Protected land · Terrestrial protected areas14.2% of land (2025)34
- 15.1 Forests · Forest area11.5% of land (2023)18
1 other indicator for this goal has no recent data for Ireland, so it isn't in the average.
Not covered: Genetic resources (15.6), invasive species (15.8) and biodiversity planning (15.9) are yes/no policy measures with no usable score.
Simplified score, may contain errors. See how it's built
Chart data: World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0) and the UN SDG Global Database (UNdata terms). Each goal score (0–100, 100 = best) averages a country's scores on several official indicators, one per main target area of the goal (7 for this goal). Each indicator is scored against a range set by the data: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0. Latest value per country since 2010; fetched 2026-09-22. The scores are calculated by this site; the underlying values are the sources', unchanged. Not covered: Genetic resources (15.6), invasive species (15.8) and biodiversity planning (15.9) are yes/no policy measures with no usable score. How the scores are built →
- Forest area (WB AG.LND.FRST.ZS; 15.1 Forests)
- Annual forest area change rate (UN AG_LND_FRSTCHG; 15.2 Forest management)
- Terrestrial protected areas (WB ER.LND.PTLD.ZS; 15.1 Protected land)
- Land biodiversity sites covered by protection (UN ER_PTD_TERR; 15.1 Biodiversity sites)
- Red List Index (species survival) (UN ER_RSK_LST; 15.5 Species)
- Land that is degraded (UN AG_LND_DGRD; 15.3 Land degradation)
- Mountain biodiversity sites covered by protection (UN ER_PTD_MTN; 15.4 Mountain ecosystems)
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