The Canadian population of Common Raven is best monitored by the Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), which samples a moderate proportion of the breeding range and has high precision in its estimates. The national BBS trend has increased steadily since the early 1970s. In British Columbia, numbers have largely stabilized since the 1990s, whereas in the Prairies and southern Ontario and Quebec the increases have been largely since the early 2000s and are still accelerating. The only region showing a slight decline since the 1990s is the Maritimes, although even there abundance remains slightly higher than in 1970.  The population is also covered well by the Christmas Bird Count, but precision of the Canadian trend is low, so the evidence for little change carries little weight relative to the high probability of a large increase shown by the BBS.

The goal for Common Raven is to remain at or above its recent population level, based on the Breeding Bird Survey. Trend data show that Common Raven is currently within its goal range.