Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017: From World Development Indicators

Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017

From World Development Indicators

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Foreword

Reaching the targets and overcoming the challenges facing the Sustainable Development Goals requires a sharper focus on better financing, better data, and better methods of delivery, working together with partners. And immediate action is necessary if we truly want to build a world that is more just, prosperous, and secure.

The World Bank Group aims to end extreme poverty in a generation and to promote shared prosperity. It will help nations meet their national goals, and address long-term global problems such as climate change, fragility, pandemics, and stunting. The Bank’s global practices and cross-cutting solution areas, broadly aligned with the SDGs, have deep knowledge and experience in virtually every cross-sectoral area.

That expertise is reflected in this SDG Atlas, which presents a visual and engaging guide to the challenges of the SDGs, to help policy makers, managers, and the public alike better understand them. The Atlas helps quantify progress, highlight some of the key issues, and identify the gaps that still remain.

The Atlas draws on World Development Indicators, a database of over 1,400 indicators for more than 220 economies, many going back more than 50 years. And it relies on the work of national and international statistical agencies around the world. I would like to acknowledge and commend them all: they play a crucial role in measuring and quantifying the development process, so that we can all make better decisions about our lives and the scarce resources we all manage.

Mahmoud Mohieldin

Senior Vice President

World Bank Group

Acknowledgments

The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017 was produced by the Development Economics Data Group of the World Bank, in collaboration with the Global Practices and Cross-Cutting Solution Areas of the World Bank and the Office of the Senior Vice President for the 2030 Development Agenda, United Nations Relations, and Partnerships.

The publication was prepared by a team led by Umar Serajuddin, under the management of Neil Fantom and the overall direction of Haishan Fu. The editorial team was coordinated by Elizabeth Purdie and comprised Ana Florina Pirlea, Tariq Khokhar, Jomo Tariku, and Andrew Whitby. Hiroko Maeda and Andrew Whitby managed the development of the Sustainable Development Goals Interactive Dashboard.

Contributions were received from Husein Abdul-Hamid, Paola Agostini, Luis Alberto Andres, Michelle Ashwin Mehta, Raka Banerjee, Randall Brummett, Shun Chonabayashi, Davida Connon, Simon Davies, Bénédicte de la Brière, Klaus Deninger, Mustafa Dinc, Angela Elzir, Mahyar Eshragh-Tabary, Juan Feng, Caron Grown, Lewis Hawke, Timothy Herzog, Barbro Hexeberg, Thea Hilhorst, Masako Hiraga, Patrick Hoang-Vu Eozenou, Maddalena Honarati, Aira Maria Htenas, Atsushi Iimi, Sara Johansson de Silva, Bala Bhaskar Naidu Kalimili, Haruna Kashiwase, Buyant Khaltarkhuu, Silvia Kirova, Irinia I. Klytchnikova, Craig Kullmann, Samuel Lantei Mills, Shiqing Li, Libbet Loughnan, Hiroko Maeda, Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich, Alejandro Moreno, Ines Zabalbeitia Mugica, Silvia Muzi, Esther Naikal, Oya Pinar Ardic Alper, Sonia Plaza, Malvina Pollock, William Prince, Anne Marie Provo, Holy Tiana Rame, Jorge Rodriguez Meza, Evis Rucaj, Fernanda Ruiz Nunez, Christopher Sall, Valentina Saltane, Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta, Meera Shekar, Avjeet Singh, Adam Stone Diehl, Victoria Strokova, Rubena Sukaj, Emi Suzuki, Robert Townsend, Tea Trumbic, Hiroki Uematsu, Michael Vaislic, Zichao Wei, Dereje Wolde, Tamirat Yacob, Junhe Yang, Soonhwa Yi, Nobuo Yoshida, Yucheng Zheng, and Urska Zrinski.

Guidance from the Office of the Senior Vice President for the 2030 Development Agenda, United Nations Relations, and Partnerships, particularly Marco Scuriatti, Mariana Dahan, Mike Kelleher and Farida Aboulmagd, and discussions with Chiyo Kanda, Nazmul Chaudhury, Andres Londono, and Sara Okada of the Operations Strategy, Results, and Risk Unit are gratefully acknowledged. The report benefited from comments and suggestions from David Rosenblatt, Tatiana Didier Brandao, Tito Cordella, Poonam Gupta, and Claudia Paz Sepulveda of the Development Economics Operations and Strategy Unit. Marianne Fay, Carter Brandon, Vivien Foster, and Melissa Johns provided invaluable advice.

Bruno Bonansea provided guidance on maps. Aziz Gokdemir, Jewel McFadden, and Nora Ridolfi oversaw printing and distribution. A team at Communications Development Incorporated—led by Bruce Ross-Larson and including Joe Caponio, Chris Trott, Lawrence Whiteley, and Elaine Wilson—managed the design, editing, and typesetting. Elysee Kiti, Lisa Burke, Juderica Diaz, and Colleen Burke provided administrative support.

About the data

The maps, charts, and analyses in this Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017 are intended to present data trends and comparisons in an accessible and visually appealing way. Given the breadth and scope of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the editors have been selective, emphasizing issues considered key by experts in the World Bank’s Global Practices and Cross-Cutting Solution Areas.

The data draw on the World Development Indicators (WDI) database—the World Bank’s compilation of internationally comparable statistics about global development and the quality of people’s lives. For each of the 17 SDGs, relevant indicators have been chosen to illustrate important trends and challenges, and highlight measurement issues.

New indicators have been added to the WDI database to better reflect coverage of specific goals and targets. In some cases—for example, where country or temporal coverage is limited—supplementary data from other databases or published studies have been used. But for some targets, there may be no reliable data to use for comparisons between countries or to measure progress.

The primary international source of the data is provided in footnotes. Where indicators are available in the WDI database, the codes used to identify these indicators are given. This CETS code (the Catalog of Economic Time Series classification) can be used to quickly access each indicator and its metadata, using the format http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/.

The 2017 Atlas uses two primary methods for classifying and aggregating countries and economies — by income (as defined for the World Bank’s 2017 fiscal year) and by region. These are presented in the maps on pages vi to ix.

For more information, including details on the structure of the coding scheme, the methodology, concepts and definitions, coverage, periodicity, development relevance of all WDI indicators, and the methods used for classifying countries for analytical purposes, please refer to http://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org.

The cutoff date for data is January 31, 2017.

Introduction

Between 1990 and 2013 nearly one billion people were raised out of extreme poverty. Its elimination is now a realistic prospect, although this will require both sustained growth and reduced inequality. Even then, gender inequalities continue to hold back human potential.

Undernourishment and stunting have been nearly halved since 1990, despite increasing food loss, while the burden of infectious disease has also declined. Access to water has expanded, but progress on sanitation has been slower. For too many people, access to healthcare and education still depends on personal financial means.

To date the environmental cost of growth has been high. Accumulated damage to oceanic and terrestrial ecosystems is considerable. But hopeful signs exist: while greenhouse gas emissions are at record levels, so too is renewable energy capacity.

Physical infrastructure continues to expand, but so too does population, so that urban housing and rural access to roads remain challenges, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Meanwhile the institutional infrastructure of development strengthens, with more reliable government budgeting and foreign direct investment recovering from the financial crisis. Official development assistance, however, continues to fall short of target levels.

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