List of Sustainable Development Goal targets and indicators


This List of SDG targets and indicators provides a complete overview of all the targets and indicators for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
The global indicator framework for Sustainable Development Goals was developed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators and agreed upon at the 48th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission held in March 2017. The official indicator list below includes all the refinements made as of 2020.

Targets and indicators for each SDG

This table is the global indicator framework for the Sustainable Development Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development The footnotes are updates from the indicator framework in 2020. Earlier in 2016, as stated in the UN Sustainability Development, the Member States have decided that the report should be produced once every four years to inform the SDG review deliberations; reported from 15 experts who all have representing backgrounds. The official indicator list below includes all updates until the 51st session Statistical Commission in March 2020. Between 15 October 2018 and 17 April 2020, a range of changes have been made to the indicators. Those are not yet reflected in the table below.
Sustainable Development Goal indicators should be disaggregated, where relevant, by income, sex, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability and geographic location, or other characteristics, in accordance with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics.

Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

Targets Indicators UNSD Indicator Codes
14.1 By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution14.1.1 Index of coastal eutrophication; and plastic debris densityC140101
14.2 By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans14.2.1 Number of countries using ecosystem-based approaches to managing marine areasC140201
14.3 Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels14.3.1 Average marine acidity measured at agreed suite of representative sampling stationsC140301
14.4 By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics14.4.1 Proportion of fish stocks within biologically sustainable levelsC140401
14.5 By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information14.5.1 Coverage of protected areas in relation to marine areasC140501
14.6 By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation414.6.1 Degree of implementation of international instruments aiming to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishingC140601
14.7 By 2030, increase the economic benefits to small island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism14.7.1 Sustainable fisheries as a proportion of GDP in small island developing States, least developed countries and all countriesC140701
14.a Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries14.a.1 Proportion of total research budget allocated to research in the field of marine technologyC140a01
14.b Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets14.b.1 Degree of application of a legal/regulatory/ policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small-scale fisheriesC140b01
14.c Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of "The future we want"14.c.1 Number of countries making progress in ratifying, accepting and implementing through legal, policy and institutional frameworks, ocean-related instruments that implement international law, as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resourcesC140c01

Repeat indicators

Indicators in the global indicator framework that repeat are the following:
  • 7.b.1/12.a.1
  • 8.4.1/12.2.1
  • 8.4.2/12.2.2
  • 10.3.1/16.b.1
  • 10.6.1/16.8.1
  • 13.2.1/13.b.1
  • 15.7.1/15.c.1
  • 15.a.1/15.b.1
  • 1.5.1/11.5.1/13.1.1
  • 1.5.3/11.b.1/13.1.2
  • 1.5.4/11.b.2/13.1.3
  • 4.7.1/12.8.1/13.3.1