Data & sources

SDSN, Sustainable Development Report 2026 (SDG Index and Dashboards database).

Citation: Fuller, G., Iablonovski, G., Lafortune, G. and Sachs, J. D. (2026). The SDG Index and Dashboards. Sustainable Development Report 2026. Paris: SDSN; Dublin: Dublin University Press. DOI:10.82163/225

The database is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: it may be shared for non-commercial purposes with attribution, without modification. This site shows the published values for teaching and links back to the original. For research, download the full database from SDSN.

Each indicator’s original producer (for example the World Bank, OECD, WHO or Global Carbon Project) is named in the indicator explorer and in the database codebook.

• Index versus dashboards. The SDG Index and goal scores use globally comparable indicators. G7 dashboards also use OECD-only indicators (marked † on goal pages), so a goal can look strong in the score and weak in the colour.
• Backdated scores. Index and goal scores for past years are recalculated with 2026 indicators and methods, carrying data forward where years are missing. They differ from scores in earlier editions of the report.
• Latest year varies. Each indicator’s latest value has its own year, shown in tooltips and tables. Some are many years old.
• Regional averages on this site are unweighted means of countries computed from the backdated index, not population-weighted.

SDSN publishes a new report each June. To update the site:

# 1. Download the new database (Excel) from SDSN and save it as
#    data-pipeline/raw/database_2026.xlsx  (or edit the file name in build.py)
pip install openpyxl
python data-pipeline/build.py
npm run build
git add . && git commit -m "Update to SDR 2027" && git push