Sustainable development in the European Union : monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context : 2023 edition

This is the seventh edition of Eurostat's monitoring report on the sustainable development goals (SDGs). This 2023 edition assesses the progress of the European Union (EU) towards reaching the SDGs and is based on a set of around 100 indicators selected according to their policy relevance for the EU as well as their statistical quality. The EU SDG indicator set is aligned with - but not identical to - the UN list of global SDG indicators. Many of the selected indicators are already used to monitor existing policies, such as the European Pillar of Social Rights or the 8th Environment Action Programme. This allows the EU SDG indicators to monitor policies and phenomena particularly relevant in the EU context. This report opens with a synopsis of the EU's overall progress towards achieving the SDGs, followed by a presentation of the policy background at global and EU levels and the monitoring of the SDGs at EU level. The detailed monitoring results are presented in 17 chapters, one for each goal, showing the EU progress over the most recent years and pointing to areas where further effort is needed. In addition, for the first time, the short-term effects on the SDGs of the current crises, such as the energy crisis brought by Russia's aggression against Ukraine and the aftershocks of the pandemic, are analysed with timely and high-frequency data. The report also features an improved analysis of the spillover effects in the world as a result of EU consumption.