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Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021
July 13 , 2021
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- It was recently published by UN department of Economic and Social Affairs.
- It was launched at 2021 session of High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF).
- Findings
- The Number of indicators included in global SDG database has increased from 115 in 2016 to 211 in 2021.
- However, covid-19 pandemic has disrupted data operations like population censuses, worldwide.
- SDG 1: Global poverty rate is estimated to be 7% in 2030.
- SDG 2: 22% of children under 5 are stunted, 6.7% suffer from wasting, while 5.7% are overweight.
- SDG 3: covid-19 has halted or reversed progress in health. It has reduced life expectancy.
- SDG 4: 9% of children in grades 1-8 have come below minimum reading proficiency levels in 2020.
- SDG 5: 25.6% of national parliamentarians are women, 36.3% are local government representatives while 28.2% are occupied at managerial positions.
- SDG 6: 2 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water and 3.6 billion people are deprived of safely managed sanitation.
- SDG 7: 2.6 billion people are vulnerable to dangerous and inefficient cooking systems.
- SDG 8: covid-19 led to loss of 255 million full-time jobs.
- SDG 9: Manufacture of medium and high-tech products contributed for economic recovery in 2020.
- SDG 10: For every 100,000 persons, 311 are refugees in 2020.
- SDG 11: Half of world’s urban population has access to public transport.
- SDG 12: Global material footprint has increased by 70% between 2000 and 2017.
- SDG 13: Global average temperature was at 1.2 Degree Celsius in 2020.
- SDG 14: Dead zones have increased from 400 in 2008 to 700 in 2019.
- SDG 15: During 2000-2020, 100 million hectares of forest were lost.
- SDG 16: Child labour has increased to 160 million in 2020. It accounted for first increase for two decades.
- SDG 17: About 3.7 billion people (half of world’s population) are still not online.
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