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No Poverty
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Target 1.1: By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
Indicator 1.1.1: Proportion of population below the international poverty line, by sex, age, employment status and geographical location (urban/rural)
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Target 1.3: Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable
Indicator 1.3.1: Proportion of population covered by social protection floors/systems, by sex, distinguishing children, unemployed persons, older persons, persons with disabilities, pregnant women, newborns, work injury victims and the poor and the vulnerable
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Target 1.4: By 2030 ensure that all men and women, particularly the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership, and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology, and financial services including microfinance
Indicator 1.4.1: Proportion of population living in households with access to basic services
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Target 1.5: By 2030 build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations, and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
Indicator 1.5.1: Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
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Indicator 1.5.2: Direct economic loss attributed to disasters in relation to global gross domestic product (GDP)
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Indicator 1.5.3: Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
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Target 1.a: Create sound policy frameworks, at national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies to support accelerated investments in poverty eradication actions
Indicator 1.a.1: Total official development assistance grants from all donors that focus on poverty reduction as a share of the recipient country’s gross national income
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Zero Hunger
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
Target 2.1: By 2030 end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
Indicator 2.1.1: Prevalence of undernourishment
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Indicator 2.1.2: Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)
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Target 2.2: By 2030 end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving by 2025 the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women, and older persons
Indicator 2.2.3: Prevalence of anemia in women aged 15 to 49 years, by pregnancy status (percentage)
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Target 2.a: Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development, and plant and livestock gene banks to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular in least developed countries
Indicator 2.a.1: The agriculture orientation index for government expenditures
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Indicator 2.a.2: Total official flows (official development assistance plus other official flows) to the agriculture sector
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Target 2.b: Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets including by the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round
Indicator 2.b.1: Agricultural Export Subsidies
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Target 2.c: Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives, and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
Indicator 2.c.1: Indicator of food price anomalies
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Good health and well-being
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Target 3.1: By 2030 reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
Indicator 3.1.1: Maternal Mortality Ratio
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Indicator 3.1.2: Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel
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Target 3.2: By 2030 end preventable deaths of newborns and under-5 children
Indicator 3.2.1: Under-5 mortality rate
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Indicator 3.2.2: Neonatal Mortality Rate
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Target 3.3: By 2030 end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases, and other communicable diseases
Indicator 3.3.1: Number of new HIV infections per 1,000 uninfected population by sex, age and key populations
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Indicator 3.3.2: Tuberculosis incidence per 100,000 population
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Indicator 3.3.3: Malaria incidence per 1,000 population
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Indicator 3.3.4: Hepatitis B incidence per 100,000 population
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Indicator 3.3.5: Number of people requiring interventions against neglected tropical diseases
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Target 3.4: By 2030 reduce by one-third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) through prevention and treatment, and promote mental health and well being
Indicator 3.4.1: Mortality rate attributed to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory disease
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Indicator 3.4.2: Suicide mortality rate
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Target 3.5: Strengthen prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol
Indicator 3.5.2: Alcohol per capita consumption (aged 15 years and older) within a calendar year in litres of pure alcohol
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Target 3.6: By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents
Indicator 3.6.1: Death rate due to road traffic injuries
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Target 3.7: By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes
Indicator 3.7.1: Proportion of women of reproductive age (aged 15-49 years) who have their need for family planning satisfied with modern methods
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Target 3.8: Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all
Indicator 3.8.1: Coverage of essential health services
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Indicator 3.8.2: Proportion of population with large household expenditures on health as a share of total household expenditure or income
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Target 3.9: By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination
Indicator 3.9.1: Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution
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Indicator 3.9.2: Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene (exposure to unsafe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for All (WASH) services)
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Indicator 3.9.3: Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning
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Target 3.a: Strengthen the implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries, as appropriate
Indicator 3.a.1: Age-standardized prevalence of current tobacco use among persons aged 15 years and older
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Target 3.b: Support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non‑communicable diseases that primarily affect developing countries, provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines, in accordance with the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, which affirms the right of developing countries to use to the full the provisions in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights regarding flexibilities to protect public health, and, in particular, provide access to medicines for all
Indicator 3.b.1: Proportion of the target population covered by all vaccines included in their national programme
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Indicator 3.b.2: Total net official development assistance to the medical research and basic health sectors
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Target 3.c: Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States
Indicator 3.c.1: Health worker density and distribution
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Target 3.d: Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks
Indicator 3.d.1: International Health Regulations (IHR) capacity and health emergency preparedness
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Quality Education
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Target 4.2: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education
Indicator 4.2.2: Participation rate in organized learning (one year before the official primary entry age), by sex
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Target 4.b: By 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States and African countries, for enrollment in higher education, including vocational training and information and communications technology, technical , engineering and scientific programmes, in developed countries and other developing countries
Indicator 4.b.1: Volume of official development assistance flows for scholarships by sector and type of study
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Gender Equality
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Target 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
Indicator 5.1.1: Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce and monitor equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sex
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Target 5.2: Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation
Indicator 5.2.1: Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner, in the last 12 months, by form of violence and by age group
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Target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
Indicator 5.5.2: Proportion of women in managerial positions
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Target 5.6: Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences
Indicator 5.6.2: Number of countries with laws and regulations that guarantee full and equal access to women and men aged 15 years and older to sexual and reproductive health care, information and education
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Clean water and Sanitation
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Target 6.1: By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all
Indicator 6.1.1: Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services
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Target 6.4: By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity
Indicator 6.4.1: Change in water-use efficiency over time
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Indicator 6.4.2: Level of water stress: freshwater withdrawal as a proportion of available freshwater resources
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Target 6.5: By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through trans boundary cooperation as appropriate
Indicator 6.5.1: Degree of integrated water resources management implementation (0-100)
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Indicator 6.5.2: Proportion of trans boundary basin area with an operational arrangement for water cooperation
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Target 6.6: By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes
Indicator 6.6.1: Change in the extent of water-related ecosystems over time
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Target 6.a: By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water and sanitation-related activities and programmes, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies
Indicator 6.a.1: Amount of water and sanitation-related official development assistance that is part of a government coordinated spending plan
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Target 6.b: Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management
Indicator 6.b.1: Proportion of local administrative units with established and operational policies and procedures for participation of local communities in water and sanitation management
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Affordable and Clean Energy
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all
Target 7.1: By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services
Indicator 7.1.1: Proportion of population with access to electricity
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Indicator 7.1.2: Proportion of population with primary reliance on clean fuels and technology
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Target 7.2: By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix
Indicator 7.2.1: Renewable energy share in the total final energy consumption
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Target 7.3: By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency
Indicator 7.3.1: Energy intensity measured in terms of primary energy and gross domestic product (GDP)
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Target 7.a: By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology
Indicator 7.a.1: International financial flows to developing countries in support of clean energy research and development and renewable energy production, including in hybrid systems
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Target 7.b: By 2030, expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, in accordance with their respective programmes of support
Indicator 7.b.1: Installed renewable energy-generating capacity in developing countries (in watts per capita)
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Decent work and Economic growth
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Target 8.1: Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances and, in particular, at least 7 percent gross domestic product growth per annum in the least developed countries
Indicator 8.1.1: Annual growth rate of real GDP per capita
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Target 8.2: Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labor-intensive sectors
Indicator 8.2.1: Annual growth rate of real GDP per employed person
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Target 8.3: Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation and encourage the formalization and growth of micro, small and medium sized enterprises, including through access to financial services
Indicator 8.3.1: Proportion of informal employment in total employment, by sector and sex
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Target 8.4: Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavor to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation,in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries taking the lead
Indicator 8.4.2: Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP
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Target 8.5: By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
Indicator 8.5.1: Average monthly earnings of female and male employees, by occupation, age group and persons with disabilities
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Indicator 8.5.2: Unemployment rate, by sex, age group and persons with disabilities
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Target 8.6: By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training
Indicator 8.6.1: Proportion of youth (aged 15-24 years) not in education, employment or training
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Target 8.7: Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms
Indicator 8.7.1: Proportion and number of children aged 5-17 years engaged in child labour, by sex and age
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Target 8.8: Protect labor rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment
Indicator 8.8.2: Level of national compliance of labour rights (freedom of association and collective bargaining) based on International Labour Organization (ILO) textual sources and national legislation, by sex and migrant status
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Target 8.10: Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all
Indicator 8.10.2: Proportion of adults (15 years and older) with an account at a bank or other financial institution or with a mobile-money-service provider
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Target 8.a: Increase Aid for Trade support for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, including through the Enhanced Integrated Framework for Trade - related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries
Indicator 8.a.1: Aid for Trade commitments and disbursements
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Target 8.b: By 2020, develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment and implement the Global Jobs Pact of the International Labour Organization
Indicator 8.b.1: Existence of a developed and operationalized national strategy for youth employment, as a distinct strategy or as part of a national employment strategy
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Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Target 9.2: Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and, by 2030, significantly raise industry’s share of employment and gross domestic product, in line with national circumstances, and double its share in least developed countries
Indicator 9.2.2: Manufacturing employment as a percentage of total employment
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Target 9.3: Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises, in particular in developing countries, to financial services, including affordable credit, and their integration into value chains and markets
Indicator 9.3.2: Percentage of small-scale industries with a loan or line of credit
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Target 9.4: By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities
Indicator 9.4.1: CO2 emission per unit of value added
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Target 9.5: Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in particular developing countries, including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and substantially increasing the number of research and development workers per 1 million people and public and private research and development spending
Indicator 9.5.1: Research and development expenditure as a percentage of GDP
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Indicator 9.5.2: Researchers (in full-time equivalent) per million inhabitants
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Target 9.a: Facilitate sustainable and resilient infrastructure development in developing countries through enhanced financial, technological and technical support to African countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States
Indicator 9.a.1: Total official international support (official development assistance plus other official flows) to infrastructure
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Target 9.b: Support domestic technology development, research and innovation in developing countries, including by ensuring a conducive policy environment for, inter alia, industrial diversification and value addition to commodities
Indicator 9.b.1: Proportion of medium and high-tech industry value added in total value added
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Target 9.c: Significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries by 2020
Indicator 9.c.1: Proportion of population covered by a mobile network, by technology
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Reduced Inequalities
Reduce inequality within and among countries
Target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
Indicator 10.2.1: Proportion of people living below 50 per cent of median income, by sex, age and persons with disabilities
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Target 10.4: Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality
Indicator 10.4.1: Labour share of GDP
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Target 10.5: Improve the regulation and monitoring of global financial markets and institutions and strengthen the implementation of such regulations
Indicator 10.5.1: Financial Soundness Indicators
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Target 10.6: Ensure enhanced representation and voice for developing countries in decision-making in global international economic and financial institutions in order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and legitimate institutions
Indicator 10.6.1: Proportion of members and voting rights of developing countries in international organizations
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Target 10.7: Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies
Indicator 10.7.2: Number of countries that have implemented well-managed migration policies
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Indicator 10.7.3: Number of people who died or disappeared in the process of migration towards an international destination
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Indicator 10.7.4: Proportion of the population who are refugees, by country of origin
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Target 10.a: Implement the principle of special and differential treatment for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, in accordance with World Trade Organization agreements
Indicator 10.a.1: Proportion of tariff lines applied to imports from least developed countries and developing countries with zero-tariff
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Target 10.c: By 2030, reduce to less than 3 per cent the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5 percent
Indicator 10.c.1: Remittance costs as a percentage of the amount remitted
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Sustainable Cities and Communities
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Target 11.2: By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons
Indicator 11.2.1: Proportion of population that has convenient access to public transport, by sex, age and persons with disabilities
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Target 11.3: By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries
Indicator 11.3.1: Ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate
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Target 11.5: By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations
Indicator 11.5.1: Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
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Indicator 11.5.2: Direct economic loss attributed to disasters in relation to global gross domestic product (GDP)
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Indicator 11.5.3: (a) Damage to critical infrastructure and (b) number of disruptions to basic services, attributed to disasters
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Target 11.6: By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention t o air quality and municipal and other waste management
Indicator 11.6.1: Proportion of municipal solid waste collected and managed in controlled facilities out of total municipal waste generated, by cities
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Indicator 11.6.2: Annual mean levels of fine particulate matter (e.g. PM2.5 and PM10) in cities (population weighted)
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Target 11.7: By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities
Indicator 11.7.1: Average share of the built-up area of cities that is open space for public use for all, by sex, age and persons with disabilities
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Target 11.a: Support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning
Indicator 11.a.1: Number of countries that have national urban policies or regional development plans that (a) respond to population dynamics; (b) ensure balanced territorial development; and (c) increase local fiscal space
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Target 11.b: By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, and develop and implement, in line with the Sendai Framework f or Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, holistic disaster risk management at all levels
Indicator 11.b.1: Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
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Responsible Consumption and Production
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Target 12.2: By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
Indicator 12.2.2: Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP
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Target 12.4: By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment
Indicator 12.4.1: Number of parties to international multilateral environmental agreements on hazardous and other chemicals and waste that meet their commitments and obligations in transmitting information as required by each relevant agreement
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Target 12.a: Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production
Indicator 12.a.1: Installed renewable energy-generating capacity in developing countries (in watts per capita)
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Target 12.b: Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
Indicator 12.b.1: Implementation of standard accounting tools to monitor the economic and environmental aspects of tourism sustainability
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Target 12.c: Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the specific needs and conditions of developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts on their development in a manner that protects the poor and the affected communities
Indicator 12.c.1: Amount of fossil-fuel subsidies per unit of GDP (production and consumption)
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Climate Action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Target 13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
Indicator 13.1.1: Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
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Indicator 13.1.2: Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
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Target 13.2: Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
Indicator 13.2.2: Total greenhouse gas emissions per year
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Life Below Water
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Target 14.4: By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
Indicator 14.4.1: Proportion of fish stocks within biologically sustainable levels
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Target 14.5: By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine are as, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
Indicator 14.5.1: Coverage of protected areas in relation to marine areas
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Target 14.6: By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and over fishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation, the DOHA Development Agenda and the Hong Kong ministerial mandate.)
Indicator 14.6.1: Degree of implementation of international instruments aiming to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
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Target 14.7: By 2030, increase the economic benefits to small island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
Indicator 14.7.1: Sustainable fisheries as a proportion of GDP in small island developing States, least developed countries and all countries
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Target 14.b: Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
Indicator 14.b.1: Progress by countries in the degree of application of a legal/regulatory/policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small-scale fisheries
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Life on Land
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Target 15.1: By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and dry lands, in line with obligations under international agreements
Indicator 15.1.1: Forest area as a proportion of total land area
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Target 15.3: By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world
Indicator 15.3.1: Proportion of land that is degraded over total land area
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Target 15.4: By 2030, ensure the conservation of mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity, in order to enhance their capacity to provide benefits that are essential for sustainable development
Indicator 15.4.1: Coverage by protected areas of important sites for mountain biodiversity
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Target 15.6: Promote fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and promote appropriate access to such resources, as internationally agreed
Indicator 15.6.1: Number of countries that have adopted legislative, administrative and policy frameworks to ensure fair and equitable sharing of benefits
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Target 15.8: By 2020, introduce measures to prevent the introduction and significantly reduce the impact of invasive alien species on land and water ecosystems and control or eradicate the priority species
Indicator 15.8.1: Proportion of countries adopting relevant national legislation and adequately resourcing the prevention or control of invasive alien species
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Peace, Justice and strong Institutions
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Target 16.1: Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere
Indicator 16.1.1: Number of victims of intentional homicide per 100,000 population, by sex and age
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Target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children
Indicator 16.2.2: Number of victims of human trafficking per 100,000 population, by sex, age and form of exploitation
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Target 16.3: Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all
Indicator 16.3.2: Unsentenced detainees as a percentage of overall prison population
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Target 16.5: Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms
Indicator 16.5.1: Proportion of persons who had at least one contact with a public official and who paid a bribe to a public official, or were asked for a bribe by those public officials, during the previous 12 months
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Indicator 16.5.2: Proportion of businesses that had at least one contact with a public official and that paid a bribe to a public official, or were asked for a bribe by those public officials during the previous 12 months
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Target 16.6: Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels
Indicator 16.6.1: Primary government expenditures as a proportion of original approved budget, by sector (or by budget codes or similar)
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Target 16.8: Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance
Indicator 16.8.1: Proportion of members and voting rights of developing countries in international organizations
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Target 16.9: By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration
Indicator 16.9.1: Proportion of children under 5 years of age whose births have been registered with a civil authority, by age
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Target 16.10: Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements
Indicator 16.10.2: Number of countries that adopt and implement constitutional, statutory and/or policy guarantees for public access to information
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Target 16.a: Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime
Indicator 16.a.1: Existence of independent national human rights institutions in compliance with the Paris Principles
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Partnerships for the Goals
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Target 17.1: Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
Indicator 17.1.1: Total government revenue as a proportion of GDP, by source
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Indicator 17.1.2: Proportion of domestic budget funded by domestic taxes
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Target 17.3: Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources
Indicator 17.3.2: Volume of remittances (in United States dollars) as a percentage of total GDP
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Target 17.4: Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress
Indicator 17.4.1: Debt service as a proportion of exports of goods and services
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Target 17.6: Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge-sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism
Indicator 17.6.1: Fixed Internet broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed
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Target 17.7: Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favorable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed
Indicator 17.7.1: Total amount of funding for developing countries to promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies
Tier I
Target 17.8: Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology
Indicator 17.8.1: Proportion of individuals using the Internet
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Target 17.9: Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation
Indicator 17.9.1: Dollar value of financial and technical assistance (including through North-South, South- South and triangular cooperation) committed to developing countries
Tier I
Target 17.10: Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda
Indicator 17.10.1: Worldwide weighted tariff-average
Tier I
Target 17.12: Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access
Indicator 17.12.1: Weighted average tariffs faced by developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States
Tier I
Target 17.13: Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence
Indicator 17.13.1: Macroeconomic Dashboard
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Target 17.17: Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships
Indicator 17.17.1: Amount in United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure
Tier I
Target 17.18: By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts
Indicator 17.18.2: Number of countries that have national statistical legislation that complies with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
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