Statistics for SDGs - Country Resources

The Road Map on Statistics for Sustainable Development Goals - Second Edition is accompanied by in-depth examples of how countries implement the Road Map recommendations. The original case studies were collected in 2021. In September 2024, an exercise was undertaken to collect new case studies and to identify still up-to-date and to update outdated existing case studies.

To keep track of the regional progress in implementing key recommendations, the Steering Group maintains an overview table. Where available, background documents or web pages are provided. The information in this table is mostly collected through a pre-filled questionnaire that was filled out by country representatives. A partial update to the table was made through a CES consultation on lessons learned from providing statistics for SDGs in 2024.

Country Case Studies for the Road Map 2.0

Road Map Section 1: Use of Statistics for SDGs

2024:

Germany: Policy follow up on off-track SDG indicators

Netherlands: Using well-being and SDG indicators to hold government to account

Netherlands: Local government use of NSO data - Urban Data Centres

Poland: Statistics Poland and Supreme Court Audit Office - cooperation for state auditing in line with the SDGs

Road Map Section 2: Quality Assurance of SDG Indicators

2021:

Norway: The ontology for SDG statistics

Norway: The role of taxonomy in improving the quality of SDG indicator sets

2024:

Netherlands: Quality criteria for externally sourced data

Sweden: Metadata for national indicators

Road Map Section 3: National Coordination Mechanisms

2024:

Portugal: Coordinating the statistical follow-up of the 2030 Agenda

Russian Federation: National coordination mechanisms for SDGs

Road Map Section 4: Reporting Global SDG Indicators

2021:

Iceland: Implementation of Icelandic National Reporting Platform

Kyrgyzstan: National Reporting Platform on Statistics for SDGs

Kyrgyzstan: Reporting on global SDG indicators and SDMX

Türkiye: Country experience in the production of non-official statistics

2024:

Armenia: National Reporting Platform for Armenia data for SDG indicators

Portugal: Reporting and validating SDG data

Road Map Section 5: Tracking Progress of the SDGs

2021:

France: Territorial indicators of sustainable development

Norway: The KPIs for Smart Sustainable Cities as a standard for city assessment against the SDGs

2024:

Albania: Human rights statistics and Sustainable Development Goals

Armenia: Trend Assessment Dashboard for SDGs indicators

France: Augmented National Accounts

Poland: Impact Barometer – a set of SDG indicators for Polish business

Russian Federation: National set of SDG indicators

Spain: Regional (sub-national) Indicators for Sustainable Development

Sweden: Local indicator sets

EU: Using official and experimental indicators to monitor SDGs in European cities

Road Map Section 6: Leave No One Behind

2021:

Canada: Small area estimation for employment and sales survey

France: Administrative sources for earning survey

France: Local statistics

France: Surveying the homeless

France: Using panels for longitudinality

Ireland: Communication of data on different population groups

Ireland: Story Maps to illustrate unemployment and poverty

Ireland: Tutorial on linking statistical and geospatial data

Kyrgyzstan: Traditional sources and MPI calculator

OECD: Child well-being

UNESCO: Identifying regional capacity gaps ensures no one is left behind

2024:

Albania: Combining census data with other sources

Albania: Gender equality

Armenia: SDG indicators related to children’s rights and situation

Netherlands: Distribution of well-being across population groups

Poland: Experimental SDG statistics

United Kingdom: Inclusive Data Charter

EU: Development of an SDG regional indicator set

Road Map Section 7: Communication of Statistics for SDGs

2021:

Canada: Infographics to better communicate statistics

France: Website as a tool to communicate statistics

Ireland: Use of social media, NRP and story maps

Republic of Moldova: Social media

2024:

Armenia: Armstat Microdata Library

Netherlands: Increasing national SDG awareness by communicating to and through children

Poland: Digital SDG Reports “Poland on the way to SDGs”

Portugal: National Reporting Platform as a tool to communicate and disseminate the SDG indicators

Portugal: Use of social media

Spain: Informative website “Explain”

Spain: Use of social media to communicate statistics

Ukraine: Assessment of the progress towards achieving SDGs in Ukraine

United Kingdom: Use of social media, NRP and other communication tools

Road Map Section 8: Voluntary National Reviews

2021:

Norway: Using the SDG data for Voluntary Local Reviews

2024:

Russian Federation: 2020 Voluntary National Review

Austria: Coordination in VNR preparation

Road Map Section 9: Capacity Development for SDG Statistics

2021:

France: International cooperation for capacity building

2024:

Armenia: Coordination of capacity development for SDG statistics in Armenia

United Kingdom: International collaboration

Addendum: Guidance on Assessing and Conceptualizing SDG Indicator Availability 

2024:

Poland: Analysis of global indicator availability on the national level – pilot testing of the 2024 Self-Assessment Tool for Indicator Availability

Progress in implementing Road Map recommendations