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You and the Global Goals: Introduction On 25 September 2015, all 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aka the Global Goals. This book articulates a path to make these Goals appear manageable, to implement in your life, adapting the 120 indicators used by the SDG Index to the individual level. The scope of the Goals is gargantuan, ill-fitted f...

Dashboard map for 2022 SDG Index Goal #1 ratings. Data source: sdgindex.org You and the Global Goals: SDG #1 - No Poverty Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90/day (%) The definition of extreme poverty is an international poverty line, as deemed by the World Bank. The World Bank is an international financial institution within the UN System, with the task to provide loans to developing countries with t...

Dashboard map for 2022 SDG Index Goal #2 ratings. Data source: sdgindex.org You and the Global Goals: SDG #2 - Zero Hunger Prevalence of undernourishment (%) The aim by 2030 is to achieve zero hunger as part of SDG #2. As of 2020, a tenth of the global population, equal to 811 million, experienced hunger and undernourishment . Due to the effects of COVID-19, the number of people suffering acute hu...

Dashboard map for 2022 SDG Index Goal #3 ratings. Data source: sdgindex.org You and the Global Goals: SDG #3 - Good Health and Well-being Maternal mortality rate (per 100,000 live births) This indicator measures the estimated number of women between the ages of 15 and 49 dying from pregnancy-related causes whilst pregnant, or within 42 days of the pregnancy’s termination. The long-term aim is 3.4...

Dashboard map for 2022 SDG Index Goal #4 ratings. Data source: sdgindex.org You and the Global Goals: SDG #4 - Quality Education Participation rate in pre-primary organized learning (% of children aged 4 to 6) This indicator defines pre-primary as one year before primary school entry. Over the past decade, based on research, the recognition has grown as to the importance of early childhood educati...

Dashboard map for 2022 SDG Index Goal #5 ratings. Data source: sdgindex.org You and the Global Goals: SDG #5 - Gender Equality Demand for family planning is satisfied by modern methods (% of females aged 15 to 49) This indicator measures women of reproductive age (15 to 49) whose demand for family planning is being met using modern methods of contraception, aiming to meet 100% of demand by 2030. S...

Dashboard map for 2022 SDG Index Goal #6 ratings. Data source: sdgindex.org You and the Global Goals: SDG #6 - Clean Water and Sanitation Population using at least basic drinking water services (%) As of 2020, 90% of the world has basic drinking water services, with a steady upward trend since the start of the MDG period. Yet the 10% left over is still too much, with the 2022 SDG Index scores show...

Dashboard map for 2022 SDG Index Goal #7 ratings Data source: sdgindex.org You and the Global Goals: SDG #7 - Affordable and Clean Energy Population with access to electricity (%) Much of the world population is on track to meet the 2030 goal of 100% access to electricity, except for the low-income and lower-middle income countries, plus Libya . 90.5% of the world population has access to electric...

Dashboard map for 2022 SDG Index Goal #8 ratings. Data source: sdgindex.org You and the Global Goals: SDG #8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth Adjusted GDP growth (%) This indicator measures the annual growth of GDP (gross domestic product), the total of everything produced (products and services) within a country. In 2020, the per capita GDP of the world (or GWP, gross world product) was $17,061,...

Dashboard map for 2022 SDG Index Goal #9 ratings. Data source: sdgindex.org You and the Global Goals: SDG #9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure Population using the internet (%) The definition of this indicator is using the internet within the last three months, whether from a fixed or mobile network, aiming for 100% of the world population to use the internet by 2030. Since the era of COVI...

Dashboard map for 2022 SDG Index Goal #10 ratings. Data source: sdgindex.org You and the Global Goals: SDG #10 - Reduced Inequalities Gini coefficient The most well-known measure of income inequality is the Gini coefficient, developed by Corrado Gini, an Italian statistician. 'Coefficient’ may harken to high school maths in a way you’d prefer to repress - if so, we can consider the Gini coefficien...

Dashboard map for 2022 SDG Index Goal #11 ratings. Data source: sdgindex.org You and the Global Goals: SDG #11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities Proportion of urban population living in slums (%) The definition of a slum is a group of people living under the same roof without access to one, or a combination of: improved water source improved sanitation source sufficient living area housing dura...

Dashboard map for 2022 SDG Index Goal #12 ratings. Data source: sdgindex.org You and the Global Goals: SDG #12 - Responsible Consumption and Production Electronic waste (kg/capita) This Goal and indicator’s 2022 score results paint an ugly portrait of the industrialised world. Most Goals heretofore align with poverty or inequality, though Goal's #12 to #15 focus on the environmental pillar of sust...

Dashboard map for 2022 SDG Index Goal #13 ratings. Data source: sdgindex.org You and the Global Goals: SDG #13: Climate Action CO₂ emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production (tCO₂/capita) One of the first things worth noting about SDG #13 is the Goal works in symbiosis with the UNFCCC’s Paris Agreement. The UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) is the primary internat...

Dashboard map for 2022 SDG Index Goal #14 ratings. Data source: sdgindex.org You and the Global Goals: SDG #14 - Life Below Water Mean area protected in marine sites important to biodiversity (%) Goals #14 & #15 are the biodiversity goals. We’re amid a crisis of enormous magnitude when it comes to mass species extinction, and we’re in a real pickle with oceans and seas, or pickle juice, to be...

Dashboard map for 2022 SDG Index Goal #15 ratings. Data source: sdgindex.org You and the Global Goals: SDG #15 - Life on Land Mean area that is protected in terrestrial sites important to biodiversity (%) Biodiversity is the variability of life on Earth. What happens without the richness of biodiversity in the form of healthy populations of myriad species? What other species beside our own could d...

Dashboard map for 2022 SDG Index Goal #16 ratings. Data source: sdgindex.com You and the Global Goals: SDG #16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions Homicides (per 100,000 population) The 2030 aim is for the homicide rate to be below 0.3 per 100,000 population, excluding deaths in the context of armed conflict. Summary : Don’t commit homicide. Unsentenced detainees (% of prison population) This...

Dashboard map for 2022 SDG Index Goal #17 ratings. Data source: sdgindex.com You and the Global Goals: SDG #17 - Partnerships for the Goals Government spending in health & education (% of GDP) This measure looks at the portion of government spending (i.e., your tax dollars) on health and education, measured as a percentage of the whole GDP, aiming by 2030 for 15% of national GDP spent on healt...

You and the Global Goals: Conclusion We have a vision of what we want the world to resemble as articulated in the Global Goals. The SDGs draw their strength from our imaginations and the prospect of creating the future we want. We actualise this by articulating goals, targets, and indicators. These efforts become gratifying through the link in our imaginations to the existence we intend to forecas...