WB Provides Atlas for Tracking how SDGs Are Transforming Our World

Governments and societies from all over the world together with the United Nations have joined forces since two years in order to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. They aim at transforming our world by ending poverty, protect the planet and guarantee well-being for all.

Yet, a lot of people may ask: “Is the world on track to achieve the 17 SDGs Agenda by 2030?”
The answer to this question is provided by the World Bank (WB) and the recently released Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals for 2017. This Atlas visualizes data and includes over 150 maps that make possible tracking progress done in achieving the 17 SDGs.
The Atlas is part of the WB’s World Development Indicators (WDI). It includes pointers for each of Sustainable Development Goals. Those indicators have been visualized in order to help all readers analyze and understand the progress and development made so far for detailed issues.
Further on, the Atlas includes statistics that are published for the first time in the WDI. It provides data, even for access to clean cooking fuels and technologies, access to electricity, etc.

In the meantime, data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank are joined to show crucial findings on healthcare financing.
For example, goal three, good health and well-being aims to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
According to the Atlas: “In 2015, 303,000 mothers died from complications in pregnancy or childbirth or 216 per 100,000 live births. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the rate was more than twice that. Both there and in South Asia only half of births are attended by skilled staff, and the number of newborn deaths in the first month is also high, at around 30 per 1,000 births. Goal 3 addresses these and other causes of premature death and seeks universal health coverage so that people can obtain health care without great financial penalty.”
Moreover, it includes data on reducing maternal and child mortality, ending epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, preventing substance abuse, extending financial protection, etc.

Representatives from governments, civil society, the private sector and other stakeholders are cooperating in order to achieve the SDGs agenda by 2030. On the other hand, youth, which is considered to be the driving force for social and economic development, can have its role too. All the members of the Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition have and continue to give their contribution to improving the lives of people everywhere in the world and their ideas and projects focus on implementing the SDGs. Our competition helps individuals to join this call to action by developing their own ideas that help to improve communities and countries.

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