Behind each headline Goal sits a flagship report, usually from the UN agency that custodians it, with the real numbers on where progress stands. These briefs pull out what each one says and what it leaves uncounted, ordered roughly by Goal from food and health to climate and cities.
UN SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2026
Ten years of water and sanitation: 74% now have safely managed drinking water, but none of SDG 6’s targets are on track and progress must accelerate sharply.
Read the brief → FAO/WFP/GNAFC · 2026Global Report on Food Crises 2026
Acute crises in 2025: 266 million people in 47 countries, and famine confirmed in two places in one year for the first time.
Read the brief → IEA/IRENA/UN/WB/WHO · 2026Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report 2026
The SDG 7 scorecard: renewables pass 30% of global electricity, yet 655 million still lack power and 2 billion lack clean cooking.
Read the brief → UNIDO · 2026Industrial Development Report 2026
The SDG 9 flagship: on a business-as-usual path, developing countries hold just 16% of global manufacturing by 2050 despite 55% of the population.
Read the brief → UN-Habitat · 2026World Cities Report 2026
The SDG 11 flagship: a global housing crisis, with up to 3.4 billion people lacking adequate housing, and why supply alone will not fix it.
Read the brief → FAO et al. · 2025State of Food Security & Nutrition in the World
The SDG 2 scorecard: hunger eased to 8.2%, but 2.3 billion are food insecure and a healthy diet is unaffordable for 2.6 billion.
Read the brief → WHO · 2025World Health Statistics 2025
The SDG 3 scorecard: only one health-related target is on track for 2030, life expectancy has clawed back its COVID losses, and 344 million are pushed into poverty by health costs.
Read the brief → UN Women & UN DESA · 2025The Gender Snapshot 2025
SDG 5 is generations off pace: women hold 27% of parliamentary seats, managerial parity is nearly a century away, and the gender data itself is thinning.
Read the brief → IEA · 2025World Energy Outlook 2025
Electricity demand rises about 40% by 2035 as data centres and AI reshape the system, yet 730 million people still lack electricity and 2 billion lack clean cooking.
Read the brief → ILO · 2025World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2025
The SDG 8 picture: global unemployment sits at 5%, but a 402-million jobs gap, informal work at three in five, and 240 million in working poverty tell the fuller story.
Read the brief → WMO · 2025State of the Global Climate 2025
The SDG 13 record: even in a cooler year, ocean heat, greenhouse gases and sea level all set or neared records.
Read the brief → UNEP · 2025Emissions Gap Report 2025
Emissions hit a record 57.7 GtCO2e and current policies still point to about 2.8°C; the report’s verdict, for a third time, is “off target.”
Read the brief → UNICEF · 2025The State of the World’s Children 2025
412 million children live in extreme poverty, more than twice the adult rate, with those in fragile states bearing a rising share.
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