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2025 UN Sustainable Development Report

  • Rick Bonetti
  • Jun 24
  • 3 min read

"Produced by the SDSN’s SDG Transformation Center, the SDR has provided the most up-to-date data to track and rank the performance of all UN Member States on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) since 2016."


This year’s SDR includes the SDG Index and Dashboards, which rank all UN Member States on their performance across the 17 Goals and features a new Index (SDGi), which focuses on 17 headline indicators to track overall SDG progress.


"Ahead of the June 30, 2025-July 3, 2025 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), the report outlines urgent reforms to the Global Financial Architecture (GFA) that should be adopted during the conference to unlock the financing needed to achieve the SDGs."


"On the heels of the 80th anniversary of the creation of the UN System, the report also provides improved measures to track countries’ support for and engagement with the UN system via its UN Multilateralism Index (UN-Mi).


"Some key findings from the Sustainable Development Report:

  • Global commitment for the SDGs remains strong: 190 of 193 UN Member States have participated in Voluntary National Reviews.

  • Progress is lagging: Only 17% of SDG targets are on track for 2030, hindered by conflict, vulnerabilities, and fiscal constraints.

  • Top performers: Nordic countries again top the Index – Finland (#1), Sweden (#2), Denmark (#3), Germany (#4), and France (#5).

  • Fastest progress: Since 2015, East and South Asian countries have shown the most improvement – Nepal (+11.1), Cambodia (+10), the Philippines (+8.6), Bangladesh (+8.3), and Mongolia (+7.7).

  • Commitment to multilateralism: Barbados leads again in UN-based multilateralism commitment, while the United States ranks last.

  • Financing the future: The GFA must be overhauled to fund global public goods and sustainable development."

"Ten years after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), progress remains alarmingly off-track, with less than 20% of targets projected to be achieved by 2030. Yet, global averages mask stark disparities across regions and countries in SDG progress. Despite these challenges, commitment remains high among the majority of UN Member States, reveals the 10th edition of the Sustainable Development Report (SDR), released today by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)."



  • "A decade after the adoption of Agenda 2030 and the SDGs, 190 of the 193 UN member states have participated in the Voluntary National Review (VNR) process, presenting their SDG implementation plans and sustainable development priorities to the international community. The European Union and State of Palestine have also presented VNRs. Most UN member states have presented two or more VNRs, and 39 countries volunteered to present one in 2025. Only three UN member states have not taken part in the VNR process: Haiti, Myanmar, and the United States."


  • "The United States ranks last in the world in the 2025 Index of Countries’ Support to UN-Based Multilateralism (UN-Mi)."


  • "In early 2025, the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization (WHO) and formally declared its opposition to the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda."


  • "The overall cost of UN operations is a paltry sum – just US $46 billion in 2023 (the year of most recent data) compared with US $2.4 trillion spent worldwide on the military that year. The United States paid US $13 billion towards UN operations in 2023, compared with US $916 billion on military outlays."

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