Executive Summary vii

Part 1. A Global Plan to Finance the Sustainable Development Goals 1

Part 2. The SDG Index and Dashboards 9

2.1 Global trends and rankings 10

2.2 SDG dashboards and trends by income groups and major world regions 17

2.3 International spillovers 28

Part 3. Policy Efforts and Commitments for the SDGs 35

3.1 Political leadership and policy environment: results from the 2022 SDSN Policy Coordination Survey for the SDGs 35

3.2 The six SDG Transformations scorecards 40

3.3 Governments’ SDG commitments versus SDG Index gaps 47

Part 4. SDG Data Systems and Statistics 51

4.1 Data innovations during the COVID-19 pandemic 51

4.2 Emerging lessons for data systems 55

Annex. Methods Summary and Data Tables 56

A.1 Interpreting the SDG Index and Dashboards results 56

A.2 Changes to the 2022 edition and main limitations 56

A.3 Methodology (overview) 57

References 77

References cited in the text 77

Databases 80

Part 5. Country Profiles 83