1. Impact-level indicators

Data for SDG indicators comes from the UN. It will be taken from the UN SDG Global Database which provides access to data on more than 210 SDG indicators – by indicator, country, region or time period.

For the SDG indicators, the assessment of data availability (column on the right) was conducted based on data available in the UN SDG Global Database, in May 2022.

Regional and global average values for these indicators will be used in TEI reporting only when publically available on the SDG Global Database.

SDG indicator 2.2.1 – official SDG indicator title focuses on prevalence of stunting, whereas data is published on undernourishment. Data from 2019 or more recent is not available for 90 out of 157 countries in the Asia Pacific region, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and
the Caribbean (LAC), as well as beneficiaries of
the European Neighbourhood Instrument and Instrument for Pre-Accession. Data gaps for this indicator particularly affect countries in Asia Pacific, LAC and those benefitting from ENI and IPA, where undernourishment is possibly not a key development issue. Most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have data available for this indicator: 30 out of 45 countries in this region have data from 2015 or more recent; however only 5 of them present more recent data (from 2019 – Burundi, Ethiopia, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe).

SDG indicator 2.3.2 (income of small-scale food producers) – as of March 2022, classified by the UN as a Tier II indicator, meaning that data is not widely available.
SDG data is available only for Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Peru and Uganda. If this data gap persists, the WG will identify a replacement indicator to use for reporting.
SDG indicator 4.1.1 (minimum proficiency learning) – full title: “Proportion of children and young people (a) in grades 2/3; (b) at the end of primary; and (c) at the end of lower secondary achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in (i) reading and (ii) mathematics, by sex”. Recent (2019/2021) data is not available for several countries of interest for TE, including Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Mali and others. Other countries may have data only for some levels of education (for example, at
the end of primary only, but not at other thresholds specified in the indicator), or only for one of the required subjects (reading or mathematics). Due to challenges in data availability, two other education-related indicators are included – see the two bullets that follow.
SDG indicator 4.1.2 Completion rate, by education level (primary education, lower secondary education, upper secondary education) – no data available for 2021 or 2020. 2019 data is available but not for all countries (i.e. missing for Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, DRC and others).
SDG indicator 4.5.1 – 2021 data on “SDG 4.5.1 Gender gap in upper secondary education” is not available. 2019 data is available for less than 20 countries. Nevertheless, it was deemed to include this indicator in order to assess
the gender equality dimension to the extent possible.
SDG indicator 6.1.1 (water) – 53 out of 157 countries do not have data for this indicator, including over half of
the countries in LAC and over a third of countries in Asia Pacific. For countries where data is available, it tends to be recent (i.e. 2020). In Sub-Saharan Africa, data is missing for only 5 countries: Central African Republic, Chad, Eritrea, Madagascar, South Sudan.

SDG indicator 6.2.1 (sanitation) – 54 out of 157 countries do not have data, primarily in the LAC region. In Sub-Saharan Africa, data is missing only for Senegal. A back-up indicator could be “Proportion of population practicing open defecation, by urban/rural” which has better data coverage and still falls under the same SDG indicator.
SDG indicator 7.2.1 (renewable energy) – data is not available only for a small number of countries (Iran and
the islands of Bonaire, Saba, Saint Barthélemy,
Sint Eustatius). However, the most recent data was published in 2017 or 2018, depending on the country.
SDG indicator 8.5.2 (unemployment rate) – for this indicator, the LAC countries that are islands have the largest data gap. Almost half of Sub-Saharan Africa countries also lack data. Disaggregation is foreseen by sex, age and disability but this type of data is inconsistently available across countries.
SDG indicator 8.6.1 (NEETs) – LAC countries that are islands also lack data for this indicator. In addition, only
9 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have relatively recent data for this indicator (2018 or 2019): Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo and Uganda. Data disaggregated by sex and age is available for a large number of countries.
SDG indicator 8.10.2 (bank account) – data is primarily missing in LAC and Asia Pacific countries that are islands.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 9 out of 47 countries lack data: Tanzania has data only until 2015, Burundi until 2016, Chad, Djibouti and Malawi until 2017, and there is no data available for this indicator for Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon and Somalia.
SDG indicator 9.4.1 (CO2 emissions) – data is not available for most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as for LAC and Asia Pacific countries that are islands. Most recent data, when available, is from 2017 or 2018.
SDG indicator 10.7.4 – data is not available only for 7 out of 157 countries. As of March 2022, the most recent data available is from 2020.
SDG indicator 15.5.1 (Red List Index) – data is not available only for 6 out of 157 countries. As of March 2022, the most recent data available is from 2021.
SDG indicator 17.8.1 (Internet use) – data is not available only for 7 out of 157 countries. However, 2019 data is available only for some 40 countries, while in other cases data may come from 2016, 2017 or 2018.

Number of refugees and asylum-seekers of concern to the UNHCR by situation

UNHCR data portal

UNHCR reports that it “publishes population statistics every six months: (a) End-year statistics for the previous year are published in June, typically on World Refugee Data. (b) Mid-year statistics covering January to June for the current year are typically published in December. (c) Demographic data is only collected within the end-year statistics.

WB Doing Business distance to the frontier score

WB open data

As of March 2022, the World Bank Group is formulating a new approach to assessing the business and investment climate in economies worldwide following the discontinuation of the Doing Business project. If the new methodology and data is not available in time for the first TEI report, the WG will select a back-up indicator.

Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) Global Peace Index

Global Peace Index Reports

Based on the 2021 IEP Global Peace Report, data is missing for some 40 out of the 157 countries, primarily states in Asia Pacific and LAC that are islands.

WB Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI):