Short answers, pulled from the story.
The UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda and seventeen Sustainable Development Goals on the 25th of September 2015. This resolution created the framework that guides international cooperation until 2030.
As of 2025, there are 234 official indicators used globally to monitor progress across the goals. Each target has between one and four indicators with an average number of indicators per target being 1.5.
The financial gap for developing countries rose to $4.2 trillion in 2020 alone after starting at $2.5 trillion annually before the pandemic. Estimates from 2018 found reaching all goals requires between $2.5 and $5.0 trillion per year globally.
Sub-Saharan Africa shows the lowest level of achievement at 56 points despite a 7.2 percent change. Latin America and the Caribbean display lower levels of achievement at 73 points while East and South Asia score 69.
Colombia proposed the idea of Sustainable Development Goals at a preparation event held in Indonesia in July 2011. The United Nations Department of Public Information picked up the idea at an NGO conference in Bonn, Germany that September.