The document discusses the Social Progress Index (SPI) as a framework for measuring progress related to 16 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and emphasizes its role in areas lacking official indicators. It notes that the global score on the SPI has increased from 63.19 in 2014 to 64.85 in 2017, indicating an improvement in social progress, though it highlights that economic growth alone is insufficient to achieve the SDGs. The SPI provides valuable insights for implementing SDGs across a global network that encompasses 2.4 billion people in 38 countries.

1. Localization and
Implementation of the SDGs
Using the Social Progress Index:
The Path to Achieve Sustainable
and Resilient Societies
HLPF
New York, 16 July 2018 2018

2. The Social Progress framework answers universally
important questions embedded within the SDGs

4. Realizing the promise of the Sustainable Development Goals
The Social Progress Index captures outcomes related to 16 of the 17 SDGs in a
simple but rigorous framework designed for aggregation, making it an invaluable proxy
measure of SDG performance, particularly for areas where official indicators do not exist

5. Global change in Social
Progress 2014-2017
Since 2014, the world aggregate score on the Social Progress
Index has improved by 1.66 points
2017: 64.852014: 63.19

6. Global Social Progress is Uneven

7. According to a
2015 Deloitte
report, the world
will come
nowhere near
achieving the
SDGs through
economic
growth alone

8. Our global network
covers 2.4 billion
people in 38
countries.
Social Progress Index supporting SDG implementation around the world