The disparities and development trajectories of nations in achieving the sustainable development goals DOI Creative Commons
Fengmei Ma, Heming Wang, Asaf Tzachor

et al.

Nature Communications, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 16(1)

Published: Jan. 28, 2025

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a comprehensive framework for societal progress and planetary health. However, it remains unclear whether universal patterns exist in how nations pursue these goals key development areas are being overlooked. Here, we apply the product space methodology, widely used economics, to construct an 'SDG of nations'. SDG models relative performance specialization 166 countries across 96 indicators from 2000 2022. Our reveals polarized global landscape, characterized by distinct groups nations, each specializing specific indicators. Furthermore, find that as improve their overall scores, they tend modify sustainable trajectories, pursuing different objectives. Additionally, identify orphaned - where certain country remain under-specialized. These patterns, more broadly, high-resolution tool understand evaluate disparities towards achieving SDGs.

Language: Английский

The disparities and development trajectories of nations in achieving the sustainable development goals DOI Creative Commons
Fengmei Ma, Heming Wang, Asaf Tzachor

et al.

Nature Communications, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 16(1)

Published: Jan. 28, 2025

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a comprehensive framework for societal progress and planetary health. However, it remains unclear whether universal patterns exist in how nations pursue these goals key development areas are being overlooked. Here, we apply the product space methodology, widely used economics, to construct an 'SDG of nations'. SDG models relative performance specialization 166 countries across 96 indicators from 2000 2022. Our reveals polarized global landscape, characterized by distinct groups nations, each specializing specific indicators. Furthermore, find that as improve their overall scores, they tend modify sustainable trajectories, pursuing different objectives. Additionally, identify orphaned - where certain country remain under-specialized. These patterns, more broadly, high-resolution tool understand evaluate disparities towards achieving SDGs.

Language: Английский

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