The UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in September 2015. It aims to change our world for the better by 2030 and builds on the Millennium Development Goals. The 2030 Agenda is of unprecedented scope and importance because it applies to everyone worldwide and everyone is therefore required to get involved. No one should be left behind on this journey. Therefore, those who are furthest behind should be reached first.
The 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda are further developed into 169 targets and are to be made measurable using suitable indicators. An international working group - the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) - was commissioned to develop the indicator set consisting of 231 indicators, of which the Federal Statistical Office was a member from mid-2015 to May 2021.
The IAEG-SDGs is also tasked with revising and further developing the indicator set. Annual fine-tuning and two major revision rounds in 2020 and 2025 are planned. The 2020 revision has already been completed. Among other things, six indicators were deleted, eight new ones were added to the indicator set and 14 indicators were replaced. The 2030 Agenda also calls for the individual indicators to be broken down according to various characteristics such as gender, age, income, migration status, disability, geographical location and other dimensions. The IAEG-SDGs is working on being able to provide all of this data and also to make it internationally comparable.
Data for Germany as well as descriptive information on the indicators have been available in a prepared and interactive form on the online platform for the indicators of the UN Sustainable Development Goals since July 2019.