LaGuardia Humanitarian Initiative (LHI) Research Guide: Statistics & Data

See the progress different countries are making toward the UN's Sustainable Development Goals

Explore SDG Data by Goal and learn about SDG progress in a one-stop hub with data, insights and infographics for a comprehensive overview across all 17 Goals.

Tracks global progress towards the SDGs and allows people around the world to hold their governments accountable to achieving the agreed goals.

Presents interactive storytelling and data visualizations about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. It highlights trends for selected targets within each goal and introduces concepts about how some SDGs are measured.

Data on children related to each of the SDGs and country profiles. From UNICEF website

Search, view, and download SDG indictor data.
What is an indicator?
For the UN Sustainable Goals, indicators is the term for the data that is used to determine progress toward the goal. For example, for Goal 2: Zero Hunger, some of the indicators include measurements of undernourishment, anemia in women, income of small-scale food producers, and food price anomalies.

Sound and timely statistics are key to inform decisions, policies and investments that tackle issues related to food and agriculture, from hunger and malnutrition to rural poverty, from food systems productivity to the sustainable use of natural resources or to climate change.

UIS is the official and trusted source of international data on education, science, culture and communication. UIS is also the custodian agency for Sustainable Development Goal 4 on Education (SDG 4), producing a wide range of data to inform the policies and investments needed to transform lives and propel the world towards its development goals.

Features country profiles and interactive tools interactive computational tool that offers users quick access to the World Bank’s estimates of poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity.
Check out How to Use for videos on the tools.

The Statistical Yearbook provides in a single volume a comprehensive compilation of internationally available statistics on social and economic conditions and activities, at world, regional and national levels each year. From the United Nations Digital Library

The World Food Programme (WFP)’s global hunger monitoring system.