Assessment of Sustainable development indicators
In the Assessment of sustainable development indicators, the Federal Planning Bureau assesses for Belgium the trends of 51 indicators towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, adopted by the United Nations in 2015: Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development). This assessment is the continuation of the ones published since 2005 in the Federal Sustainable Development Reports (Act of 5 May 1997 on sustainable development, text in PDF in French and Dutch).
For 26 of these 51 indicators, policy makers have set a target, a precise value to be reached by 2030. For the other 25 indicators, only a desired direction was determined. The assessment result for each indicator is represented by an icon.
| 2024–November Assessment of 51 indicators — summary | ||||
| Result | Trend assessment | Total | ||
| towards target | in desired direction | |||
| Favourable | 6 | 10 | 16 | |
| Undetermined | 0 | 12 | 12 | |
| Unfavourable | 20 | 3 | 23 | |
| Total | 26 | 25 | 51 | |
This assessment was made for the report Sustainable Development Indicators 2025 (report available in French and Dutch). More information on the assessment method is provided in that report, annex 7.5.
Previous assessment results are available: report Sustainable Development Indicators 2024 (chapter 2, in French and Dutch); Belgian Voluntary National Review 2023 to the United Nations (chapter 6 and annex); report Sustainable Development Indicators 2023 (chapter 2, in French and Dutch); 2022 Sustainable Development Report (chapter 2; in French and Dutch); report Sustainable Development Indicators 2022 (chapter 2, in French and Dutch); article on 2021 Assessment (Trend break needed to achieve all SDGs by 2030, in French and Dutch); 2019 Sustainable Development Report (chapter 1, in French and Dutch); 2017 Sustainable Development Report (chapter 2, in French and Dutch); 2016 Assessment (press release in French and Dutch) and 2015 Assessment (press release in French and Dutch).
| 2024–November Assessment of 51 indicators — details * | |
| * | The survey methodology of four indicators was substantially revised from 2019 onwards for greater accuracy. As a result, their data up to and including 2018 are not comparable with those from 2019 onwards. Those indicators are i01, i51, i52 and i53. This break in series could impact the evaluation result, which should therefore be handled with caution. |
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