Io Sono Futuro · I Am The Future
Fondazione Della Frera · New York 2026
Four Years Left
In September 2015, 193 countries adopted 17 goals with a 2030 deadline. We are eleven years in, with four years to go.
169 dots are drifting behind this text. They are not decoration.
9.3%
of the world lives in extreme poverty
Down from 32.0% in 2000
0.02
index points gained in the latest year
The slowest year on record
7%
of all goal ratings are green
40% are red
4
years left to the 2030 deadline
193 countries, 17 goals, one date
Source: Sustainable Development Report 2026, SDG Index database (Fuller, Iablonovski, Lafortune and Sachs).
Scene two
Before we judge the last decade, look at the last twenty five years.
In 2000, nearly a third of humanity lived in extreme poverty. Life expectancy was 67.6 years, one child in eighteen died before turning five, and a fifth of the world had no electricity at all.
Almost every one of those numbers has moved, and moved a long way. Most people, including most experts, guess the direction of that movement wrongly — which is the first thing worth knowing about the state of the world's promises.
Since 2000, has the share of the world in extreme poverty been…
Pick one first — then reveal.
Since 2000, which way has extreme poverty moved?
Share of the world population living in extreme poverty, percent, 2000 to 2026.
Source: Sustainable Development Report 2026, SDG Index database (Fuller, Iablonovski, Lafortune and Sachs).
Progress has not stopped. It has almost stalled.
World SDG Index score, 0 to 100, 2000 to 2025. Line color shows how much the world gained each year. Italy is drawn alongside for scale.
Source: Sustainable Development Report 2026, SDG Index database (Fuller, Iablonovski, Lafortune and Sachs).
The world SDG Index, 2000 to 2025
The world has gained about ten points since 2000, but the line is not one story: it runs fast, then slower, then almost flat.
Every country, every goal: 2,873 ratings
One square per country and goal: 2,873 ratings across 169 countries and 17 goals, Sustainable Development Report 2026.
Source: Sustainable Development Report 2026, SDG Index database (Fuller, Iablonovski, Lafortune and Sachs).
2,873 ratings
The Sustainable Development Report rates every country on every goal. Here is the whole world's report card, one square at a time, in no particular order.
The average hides seventeen different stories
World score for each of the 17 goals, 0 to 100, 2015 to 2025.
Source: Sustainable Development Report 2026, SDG Index database (Fuller, Iablonovski, Lafortune and Sachs).
All seventeen
The world index is an average, and averages lie. Underneath it are seventeen goals moving at seventeen different speeds.
Where you are born still writes most of your scorecard
SDG Index score, 0 to 100, 169 ranked countries. Grey means not ranked.
Source: Sustainable Development Report 2026, SDG Index database (Fuller, Iablonovski, Lafortune and Sachs).
The world in 2026
Darker means a higher score. Finland leads at 87.4; Italy is 26th at 79.9; at the palest end, South Sudan is last at 39.9.
The richest large economy ranks 45th
Change in SDG Index rank, 2015 to 2025, all 168 ranked countries. Rank 1 is at the top. Italy stays marked on every step.
Source: Sustainable Development Report 2026, SDG Index database (Fuller, Iablonovski, Lafortune and Sachs).
United States
Red on 7 goals. Green on 1: innovation.
Portrait one
The United States fell from rank 40 to 45, red on 7 goals and green on one. Is that a data artifact or a policy verdict?
Scene eight
Nobody has finished.
Finland ranks first in the world at 87.4 out of 100, and it is still red on 2 goals. Its spillover score, which measures the damage a country's consumption does abroad, is 66.9.
Not one country is on track for all 17 goals.
The SDGs are not a race others must finish. They are unfinished business everywhere, including here.
Finland's 17 goals
Tile color is the rating, the top band is the goal's official color, the arrow is the trend.
Still short on: SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production, SDG 13 Climate Action.
Source: Sustainable Development Report 2026, SDG Index database (Fuller, Iablonovski, Lafortune and Sachs).
At today's pace the world reaches about 70.5 by 2030
World SDG Index score, 0 to 100. History to 2025, then the current pace projected to the deadline.
Source: Sustainable Development Report 2026, SDG Index database (Fuller, Iablonovski, Lafortune and Sachs).
The difference between the current path and the promised one is not knowledge, money or technology. It is priorities, institutions and cooperation — which is why an AI project moves this line only if it reaches the people the goals were written for, and someone answers for what it does.
In 2030 the youngest people in this room will be voting adults, and the oldest will be building the companies and institutions that deliver the last mile. These goals are your inheritance, and your projects are a first draft of what comes next.
The explorer
Look up any country.
Every ranked country, its score, its trajectory and all 17 goals. Start with the country your project is built for, then add up to three to the comparison set and they appear here side by side.
64.8
SDG Index score, out of 100
110
Rank of 169
East & South Asia · spillover score 95.7
Bangladesh: 53.1 in 2000 to 64.8 today
SDG Index score against the East & South Asia average.
Source: Sustainable Development Report 2026, SDG Index database (Fuller, Iablonovski, Lafortune and Sachs).
Bangladesh
Tile color is the goal rating, from green through yellow and orange to red; grey means no data. The arrow is the trend. Hover any tile for its goal.
About this briefing
This page was built for Io Sono Futuro – I Am The Future, the national programme of Fondazione Della Frera that identifies and supports young Italian talent through education, innovation and international experience. Its New York 2026 mission brings high school and university students whose AI based project ideas take on emerging global challenges. This is a briefing on the implementation and progress of the Sustainable Development Goals — the agenda those projects set out to serve. It is a visualization of, and commentary on, a published database. It is not a UN publication.
What the SDG Index is, and is not
The SDG Index is an independent academic assessment produced for the Sustainable Development Report by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), not official United Nations statistics. The official companion is the UN's annual SDG progress report. The index scores each country from 0 to 100 as an average of its performance across all 17 goals, so it rates outcomes, and national wealth correlates with the result. Three things in this story push against that: Bangladesh outperforming its income class, spillover scores that penalise rich country consumption, and climate ratings that invert the usual hierarchy.
Scores are backdated by the report's authors, so the 59.03 figure for 2000 is computed on today's methodology rather than taken from a report published in 2000. Ranks cover 169 countries with sufficient data.
Suggested citation
Fuller, G., Iablonovski, G., Lafortune, G. and Sachs, J. (2026). Sustainable Development Report 2026. Dublin: Dublin University Press. SDG Index database.
License and attribution
The underlying SDG Index database is published by Fuller, Iablonovski, Lafortune and Sachs (SDSN) under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0. That licence permits sharing with attribution for non commercial use and does not permit distribution of modified versions of the database. This page therefore presents the published figures as visualization and commentary, with attribution displayed on every chart, and links to the unmodified data below.
The data
- world_index.json World SDG Index by year, 2000 to 2025
- goal_scores_world.json World score for each of the 17 goals, 2015 to 2025
- regions.json Regional and income group averages by year
- dashboard_cells.json All 2,873 country by goal ratings and trends
- ranks.json Rank in 2015 and 2025 for every ranked country
- countries.json Per country score, rank, ratings, trends and index history
- poverty_world.json World extreme poverty rate, 2000 to 2026
- derived_stats.json Every headline figure used on this page
Presenting this page
Arrow keys, space or page down move through the story one stop at a time. Digits 1 to 9 jump to a scene, F is fullscreen, B blanks the screen, Home returns to the top and ? lists the shortcuts. The comparison set is stored in the address, so a prepared set of countries can be bookmarked.
Built by Mafizul Islam for Io Sono Futuro, New York 2026. Charts hand built in SvelteKit with d3 as a maths helper; no chart library, no map tiles, no external requests at all, so the page runs offline. Type is Baloo 2 and Inter, self hosted. Design grammar follows the World Bank's Atlas of Global Development.