About SDGs
Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; It was accepted at the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2015, with the signature of the Heads of State. It is the continuation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) process announced by the UN for the years 2000-2015. It aims to continue the developments made with the MDG and to complete the missing issues. In the spirit of global solidarity, it should be implemented in line with the principle of leaving no one behind, especially considering the poorest and most vulnerable. Governments, local administrations, private sector and non-governmental organizations are expected to be in close coordination. It is also among the principles of the 2030 Agenda to identify sets of indicators that take into account the specific needs and priorities of certain geographical regions (regional) and countries (national) in order to monitor the Goals and Objectives of the Agenda.
Indicators measuring the Sustainable Development Goals consisting of 17 goals and 169 targets ;
- In March 2016, the UN Statistics Commission (UNSC) approved the global indicator framework proposed by the IAEG to measure the SDGs and corresponding targets. There were 241 (230 non-repetitive) indicators in this indicator list.
- There were 244 (232 non-repetitive) indicators in the revised list published in March 2017.
- There are 247 indicators (231 non-repetitive unique indicators) in the revised list published according to the Comprehensive Revision 2020 as a result of the Inter-Agency Expert Group (IAEG-SDGs) studies for Sustainable Development Indicators (51st UNSC meeting, March 2020).
- There are 248 (231 non-repetitive) indicators in the indicator list published after the annual revision in 2022.
Comprehensive changes will be made in 2025 with annual possible corrections within the framework of the indicator. Revisions will continue in this process until metadata and classifications are clear. There may be revisions in this context.
To facilitate the implementation of the global indicator framework, all indicators are classified by the IAEG-SDGs into three tiers based on their level of methodological development and the availability of data at the global level, as follows:
Tier I: Indicators that are conceptually clear, have an agreed international definition and are regularly produced by countries.
Tier II: Indicators that are conceptually clear, have an agreed international definition and are not yet regularly produced by countries.
Tier III: Indicators that are not accepted by international standards and are not regularly produced by countries.
The role of the National Statistical Offices; in the context of the 2030 Agenda, 48. UN Statistical Commission and CES Declaration of the role of national statistical offices in measuring and monitoring SDGs (2015), has been emphasized as follows:
In the Agenda text,
“Follow up and review at the high level political forum will be informed by an annual progress report on the Sustainable Development Goals to be prepared by the Secretary General in cooperation with the United Nations system, based on the global indicator framework and data produced by national statistical systems and information collected at the regional level.”
UN Statistics Commission decision (48th session, March 2017),
“Stresses that official statistics and data from national statistical systems constitute the basis needed for the global indicator framework.. and also stresses the role of national statistical offices as the coordinator of the national statistical system”
In CES Declaration,
“The national statistical offices are committed to contribute their expertise to measure SDGs in a professional, independent and impartial way”