SDG Explorer
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are the world's shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet. Click any card to flip it and learn the goal's mission and key targets.
No Poverty
End poverty in all its forms everywhere by 2030, ensuring that all people have equal rights to economic resources, basic services, and protection from climate-related shocks.
Key Targets
- Eradicate extreme poverty (people living on less than $1.25/day)
- Reduce by at least half the proportion living in poverty by national definitions
- Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems for all
Zero Hunger
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture so that all people have access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food.
Key Targets
- End hunger and ensure access to safe, nutritious food for all people
- End all forms of malnutrition and address stunting and wasting in children
- Double the agricultural productivity of small-scale food producers
Good Health and Well-being
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages by strengthening health systems, eliminating preventable deaths, and achieving universal health coverage.
Key Targets
- Reduce global maternal mortality to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
- End preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5
- End the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases
Quality Education
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, leaving no learner behind regardless of gender, disability, or economic status.
Key Targets
- Ensure all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education
- Ensure equal access for all to affordable vocational and higher education
- Substantially increase the number of youth and adults with relevant skills
Gender Equality
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls by ending discrimination, violence, and harmful practices while ensuring full participation in political, economic, and public life.
Key Targets
- End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
- Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls
- Eliminate all harmful practices such as child marriage and female genital mutilation
Clean Water and Sanitation
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, including safe drinking water and ending open defecation.
Key Targets
- Achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water
- Achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all
- Improve water quality by reducing pollution and eliminating dumping
Affordable and Clean Energy
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by substantially increasing the share of renewable energy globally.
Key Targets
- Ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services
- Substantially increase the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix
- Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency
Decent Work and Economic Growth
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all while protecting labor rights.
Key Targets
- Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances
- Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through innovation and technology
- Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation to drive economic growth and human well-being.
Key Targets
- Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure
- Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
- Increase the access of small-scale industrial enterprises to financial services
Reduced Inequalities
Reduce inequality within and among countries by empowering and promoting the social, economic and political inclusion of all regardless of age, sex, disability, race, or economic status.
Key Targets
- Achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 percent at a rate higher than the national average
- Empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all
- Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome
Sustainable Cities and Communities
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable by ensuring access to housing, transportation, public spaces, and reducing environmental impact.
Key Targets
- Ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services
- Provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems
- Enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for planning
Responsible Consumption and Production
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns by decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation and promoting resource efficiency.
Key Targets
- Implement the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on sustainable consumption and production
- Achieve sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
- Halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels
Climate Action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts by strengthening resilience, integrating climate measures into policy, and mobilizing $100 billion annually for developing nations.
Key Targets
- Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards
- Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
- Improve education and awareness on climate change mitigation and adaptation
Life Below Water
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development by preventing marine pollution and protecting ecosystems.
Key Targets
- Prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds
- Sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems
- Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification
Life on Land
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation.
Key Targets
- Ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems
- Promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests
- Combat desertification and restore degraded land and soil
Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
Key Targets
- Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere
- End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against children
- Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels
Partnerships for the Goals
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development through finance, technology, capacity building, and multi-stakeholder partnerships.
Key Targets
- Strengthen domestic resource mobilization to improve domestic capacity for tax collection
- Developed countries to fully implement official development assistance commitments
- Promote development, transfer and dissemination of environmentally sound technologies
Source: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). sdgs.un.org