Find out how far OECD countries are from achieving the SDG targets. Based on the UN Global Indicator List, and using UN SDG and OECD data, the OECD has developed a unique methodology allowing comparison of progress across SDG goals and targets. Measuring Distance to the SDG Targets 2019 - An Assessment of Where OECD Countries Stand also includes innovative analyses on trends and on measuring the transboundary aspects of the 2030 Agenda as well as country notes showing performance at the target level and data gaps for individual OECD countries.

1. MEASURING DISTANCE TO THE SDG TARGETS :
AN ASSESSMENT OF WHERE OECD COUNTRIES
STAND
LAUNCH OF 2019 EDITION
Martine Durand, Chief Statistician and Director
OECD Statistics and Data Directorate

2. Goals
17
169
244
1,000+
Targets
Indicators
Data series

3. Tool to help countries navigate the 2030 Agenda and identify priorities for
action
Measures how far OECD countries are from 2030 targets, allowing
comparison across goals, targets and indicators
OECD average and country-level analysis
Based on the internationally agreed UN Global Indicator List
Analysis of performance over time (trends) and exploration of
transboundary impacts
What is the purpose of this study? What does it do?

4. Key messages
OECD countries have achieved some SDG targets
already but are lagging behind and slipping further
away on others
There’s still a lot we don’t know! Filling data gaps is a
priority
OECD countries’ global and transboundary
contributions need to be enhanced
The OECD performance is uneven on average across
SDG goals and targets
There are also large disparities in country
performances across goals and targets

5. 0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
Eradicate Poverty
Food
Health
Education
Gender Equality
Water
Energy
Economy
InfrastructureReduce Inequality
Cities
Sustainable Production
Climate
Oceans
Biodiversity
Institutions
Implementation
Uneven average
OECD performance
across goals
But
• High uncertainty on
planet results (Goals
12, 13, 14, 15) due
to missing data
• Varying ambition
levels

6. … and uneven performance across targets and within goals
*The longer the bars, the closer to the 2030 targets; target levels are represented by the outer dotted circle.
Levels of achievement to be attained by 2030
1: Eradicate poverty
2: Food
3: Health
4: Education
5: Gender equality
6: Water
7: Energy
8: Economy
9: Infrastructure
10: Reduce inequality
11: Cities
12: Sustainable production
13: Climate
14: Oceans
15: Biodiversity
16: Institutions
17: Implementation
Goals
Close to
target
2.4 soil
quality
16.9
registration
of
births
5.b1 women
using
internet
Far from
target
2.2 obesity
rate
16.5
confidence
in national
government
5.4 gender
gap in
unpaid
work

7. Country performances differ across goals
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
Distance
from Target PartnershipsPeople Planet Prosperity Peace

8. 0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
Moving towards targets No trend or no data Moving away from targets
OECD countries have been moving towards several
SDG targets but away from others
Number of
countries
People Planet Prosperity PartnershipsPeace

9. OECD global and transboundary contributions:
improvements needed
Country A
Makes
efforts to
achieve
SDGs
Country
B
Proposed approach to mapping transboundary
effects in the SDGs:
Global
public
goods
Other countries
97 of the 169 targets
have a direct
transboundary impact

10. AUS
CAN
DEU
FRA
GBR
ITA
JPN
KORM…
TUR
USA
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
0.01 0.03 0.05 0.07 0.09 0.11 0.13
CO2intensityofenergy
(tCO2/toeTPES)
Energy intensity of GDP (TFC/GDP, toe per thousand 2015 USD
PPP)
Global contribution : improvement in CO2 productivity
needed to reach climate-related targets
2020
2030
Carbon and energy intensity of OECD countries in 2014 and the path to 2020 and 2030 needed to reach target of
remaining under 2 degrees Celsius
Improvements in carbon and
energy intensity are necessary
to achieve the goal of staying
below 2 degrees Celsius.
Adapted from OECD (2017), Investing in Climate, Investing in Growth, OECD Publishing, Paris,

11. Transboundary contribution: total and sectoral ODA still
far away from targets
The ODA target of 0.7% of GNI is
far from being achieved
ODA as a share of GNI, DAC total
ODA is part of most goals
ODA by goals, DAC total, billion USD, 2016
or 2017
Left panel shows (net) ODA as a share of donor countries’ Gross National Income from 1980 to 2017. Right Panel shows specific ODA across SDG goals
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0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
1980 1990 2000 2010
2017
0
10
20
30
40
50

12. A word of caution on data :
Only 132 of the 244 UN indicators are available for OECD
countries, with different coverage across SDGs
0
20
40
60
80
100
Share of
targets
covered
People Planet Prosperity PartnershipsPeace

13. Assist Members in
navigating the SDG
Agenda: assessing
trends and
transboundary impacts
Provide data to the UN
Global Database either
directly (e.g. ODA) or
through multiagency
consortia (PISA, TALIS,
PIAAC, SIGI etc.)
Assisting with
methodological work to
help fill data gaps (e.g.
Governance, TOSSD)
Pursue work on specific
SDG issues: gender, role
of social dialogue, role
of businesses
Measuring Distance to
SDG Targets for and
building capacity in
developing countries
(with PARIS21)
What’s next: OECD will continue to act as UN “best
supporting actor” on SDG data

14. THANK YOU!