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UNCTAD SDG Pulse 2025

UNCTAD SDG Pulse 2025

UNCTAD SDG Pulse 2025 provides an update on the evolution of a selection of official SDG indicators and complementary data and statistics about the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.

  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • SDGs by theme
        • Multilateralism
          • Developing economies and trade
          • Developing economies’ trade in services
          • Tariffs
        • Development finance
          • Development financing
          • Investment flows
          • Debt sustainability
          • Illicit financial flows
        • Diversification
          • Sustainable industrialization
          • Digital technologies for development
        • Sustainability
          • Transport resilience & sustainability
          • Resilience and risk
  • SDGs by theme
    • Multilateralism and trade
      • Developing economies and trade
      • Developing economies' trade in services
      • Tariffs
    • Development finance
      • Development financing
      • Investment flows
      • Debt sustainability
      • Illicit financial flows
    • Diversification
      • Sustainable industrialisation
      • Digital technologies for development
    • Sustainability and resilience
      • Transport resilience and sustainability
      • Resilience and risk
  • SDGs by goal
  • SDGs by goal
  • In focus
    • 2025: Critical minerals
    • 2024: Gender
    • 2023: Paths to SDGs
    • 2022: Inclusive growth
    • 2021: Remoteness
    • 2020: COVID-19
    • 2019: Inequality
  • UNCTAD in action
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In focus

In focus

In focus 

Trade in critical minerals shapes energy transition, digital transformation and industrial development worldwide

06/05/202526/06/2025 sonia

Rethinking the role of critical minerals for development The global shift toward a low-carbon economy has intensified the demand for

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Goal 10: Reduce inequality In focus 

The data-informed path to bridging the gender gap in trade

23/05/202427/06/2025 sonia

Gender inequality persists globally, impacting economic participation, education, health, and political empowerment, affecting women’s lives globally. Despite advancements, significant disparities

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Goal 17: Partnership for the goals In focus 

Unlocking transition pathways: A global perspective to SDG costing with synergistic approaches

07/03/202327/06/2025 sonia

The Bridgetown Covenant underlines the importance of “boosting resources, private and public, and domestic and international” and their “effective employment”

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Goal 17: Partnership for the goals In focus 

Stark contrasts in inclusive growth – progress towards equal opportunities needed everywhere

08/06/202224/06/2025 sonia

“We used to think of progress as if economy, society and environment were separate spheres and that mindset led to

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Goal 17: Partnership for the goals In focus 

Remoteness

11/06/202124/05/2024 sonia

Overcoming the tyranny of distance to achieve sustainable development Little has been said about the challenges and opportunities associated with

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Goal 17: Partnership for the goals In focus 

COVID-19: Measurement issues and assessments

29/05/202027/06/2025 sonia

Timeline of a pandemic On 31 May 2020, the WHO reported that more than 5.9 million people had been confirmed

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Goal 10: Reduce inequality In focus 

The many faces of inequality

05/04/201927/06/2025 sonia

This chapter provides some discussion and analyses on a few of the many dimensions of inequality that exist. The chapter

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In focus this year

Trade in critical minerals shapes energy transition, digital transformation and industrial development worldwide
In focus 

Trade in critical minerals shapes energy transition, digital transformation and industrial development worldwide

06/05/202526/06/2025 sonia

Rethinking the role of critical minerals for development The global shift toward a low-carbon economy has intensified the demand for

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