Global level

Progress towards achieving the 2030 Agenda goals is measured through sustainable development indicators. The list of global indicators was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in July 2017. In 2017, the final set of indicators consisted of 244 indicators, of which 232 were unique.

A comprehensive revision was carried out in March 2020, in which the number of indicators was increased to 247 (by 3), of which 231 were unique. The last comprehensive revision of the indicators was in 2025. The final set of indicators consists of 251 indicators, of which 234 are unique.

Data per country are published on the UN website, in the global database, along with metadata. SDG Indicators Database provided Country Profile for either country.

Indicators are an essential tool for monitoring progress towards the fulfilment of the 2030 Agenda goals, as well as for following up and monitoring national development and assessing the effectiveness of the measures taken.

The indicators are broken down into three groups according to criteria, whether there is an established methodology for the calculation of data and whether there are data for a given indicator.
Tier Classification Criteria:
Tier I: There is an established methodology and also data available to the indicator.
Tier II: Established methodology but data have not been available yet.
Tier III: The methodology has been still developing so far and there have not been data available for the indicators. Currently, the global indicator framework no longer contains any Tier III indicators.

The following table compares the number of indicators in Tier after comprehensive revisions (2020, 2025) with the number of indicators in the original list (2017):

Table 1 Overview of the number of indicators in Tier classifications

 Source: Own processing by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic

The Inter-agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) is tasked with the methodology development.

Please click on icon from the list below to find information and data on the relevant goal.
To view the list of indicators after the refinement in April 2025, please click on the List of indicators (xlsx, 87 kB) or List of indicators (pdf, 966 kB)

The Statistical Office of the SR provides data calculated at national level, that are available from the national database DATAcube. on this website. As development of indicators and related progress monitoring is a continuing process, the websites and databases are complemented and updated on an ongoing basis.