UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Index 2026
- Background: UN India ranks 94th on the SDG Index 2026 (its highest ranking ever); However, achieving the goal of ‘no hunger’ remains the biggest challenge.
UN About the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Code 2026
- It is an annual assessment of countries’ progress towards achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
- It was released by the ‘United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network’ (SDSN) at the Hamburg Sustainability Conference 2026.
- The 2026 edition ranks 167 countries (based on an SDG score on a scale of (0-100).
- Newly joined countries: Eritrea and Timor-Leste.
Global key features
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- Global status: None of the SDGs are on track to be fully achieved by 2030; Only 16.5% of targets are progressing on the right track.
- Best performing countries: Finland (1st), Sweden (2nd), Denmark (3rd).
India position
- Rank: 94th (highest ever); 68.3 marks out of 100. In 2025, it has improved from 99th place.
- Improvement: 18 places improvement from 2015 (from 112 to 94); India is one of the fastest growing major economies.
- Regional position: Behind Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, but ahead of Pakistan.
- Outlook to 2030: Only 33.3% of India’s SDG targets are on track.
Civil Registration System (CRS) Report 2024
- Context: India’s latest civil registration data, CRS 2024, released suggests that registration is improving across the country, and that sex ratio at birth is improving in some places, but predictably, progress remains uneven across States and Union Territories.
About Civil Registration System (CRS) Report 2024
- The Civil Registration System (CRS) Report 2024 shows that birth and death registration in India has reached near-universal coverage.
- Birth registration: 99.1% in 2024; Death registration: 99.4% in 2024.
- India’s Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB): 917 females per 1,000 males.
- Top performers in SRB:
- Arunachal Pradesh – 1,050
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands – 984
- Lowest SRB:
- Nagaland – 865
- Lakshadweep – 865
- Jharkhand – 890
- Registered births increased from 2.52 crore (2023) to 2.54 crore (2024).
- Registered deaths increased from 86.6 lakh (2023) to 89.4 lakh (2024).
- Stillbirths in 2024: 81,117, with 69% occurring in urban areas.
- 13 States achieved over 90% birth registration, and 15 States achieved over 90% death registration.
