SDG 1: No Poverty
SDG 4: Quality Education
SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
Institutions: Ministry of Finance; Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; Ministry of Education; Ministry of Rural Development
Launched at the High-Level Political Forum on 14 July 2025, the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025 warns that with only five years left, 35% of measurable SDG targets are stagnating or reversing. Hunger still affected up to 757 million people in 2023, while 2.2 billion lack safe drinking water and 3.4 billion sanitation. Education gaps remain severe, with over half of SDG4 targets off-track, and informal employment affects 57.8% of workers worldwide. Rising inequalities, debt distress, biodiversity loss, and ocean degradation highlight structural vulnerabilities, while climate change, exacerbated by record heat in 2024, threatens to undo hard-won gains.
Positive advances exist. HIV infections have fallen 40% since 2010, malaria prevention has saved 12.7 million lives, and global social protection now covers over half the population.
The report calls for urgent reforms in global finance through the Sevilla Commitment, investment in six key accelerators including food, energy, digital, education, jobs, and climate, and stronger multilateralism to bridge a 4 trillion-dollar annual SDG financing gap.
Follow the full report here:
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2025/