The Sustainable Development Goals Report is prepared by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with the UN Statistical System, using data and estimates in the Global SDG Indicators Database.
This year’s report “paints a particularly bleak picture” of the 2030 Agenda and “how it is being seriously jeopardized” by multiple intersecting crises, wiping out years of progress on the SDGs and pushing millions into hunger and poverty.
The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) issued its annual Sustainable Development Goals Report, warning that “cascading and interlinked crises,” dominated by COVID-19, climate change, and conflicts, have reversed years of progress in eradicating poverty and hunger, improving health and education, and providing basic services, putting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development “in grave danger.”
The Sustainable Development Goals Report is the only official UN report that monitors global progress on the 2030 Agenda. It is prepared by the DESA in collaboration with the UN Statistical System, using data and estimates in the Global SDG Indicators Database, which contains global, regional, and country data and metadata on the official SDG indicators. The database uses information from custodians for each SDG indicator, and specifies whether the national data were adjusted, estimated, modeled, or are the result of global monitoring.
According to Yongyi Min, Chief, SDG Monitoring Section, Statistics Division, DESA, and the publication’s lead author, this year’s report “paints a particularly bleak picture” of the 2030 Agenda and “how it is being seriously jeopardized” by multiple intersecting crises, wiping out years of progress on the SDGs and pushing millions into hunger and poverty.
Some of the report’s findings include:
In a forward to the report, UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls for “an urgent rescue effort for the SDGs” by creating a global economy that works for all and ensuring greater investment in data infrastructure. Echoing this message, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Liu Zhenmin outlines a three-step “road map for survival”: ending armed conflicts and embarking on a path of diplomacy and peace; adopting low-carbon, resilient, and inclusive development pathways; and comprehensively transforming the international financial and debt architecture.
The report was released on 7 July 2022, during the first week of the 2022 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). [Publication: The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022] [Key Messages] [Statistical Annex 2022] [Publication Landing Page] [DESA Press Release] [UN News Story] [Interview with Yongyi Min, DESA] [SDG Knowledge Hub Story on Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021]
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