Charts and maps illustrate the issues for 33 indicators, relying entirely on official provincial statistics.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, which has been reporting on the health of the bay since 1998, examines data for 13 indicators in three categories: pollution, habitat and fisheries.
The EIU Democracy Index in turn, is based on the ratings for 60 indicators, grouped into five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.
The study does this for 12 indicators, and as Lawrence Haddad of the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University points out, only on three of those indicators were things significantly better in the millennium villages.
Political action is needed to reach the targets for 18 indicators assigned with a red traffic light.
The new report is a product of the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership, a consortium of 40 organizations that contributed data and analyses for 31 indicators of biodiversity.
For the 2017 rankings, the research team spent six months crunching numbers for 83 indicators in nine categories: General Livability, Health Care, Wellness, Financial Security, Education, Transportation and Convenience, Employment, Living Arrangements and Community Engagement.
Only for 12 indicators it can be assumed that the sustainability targets for 2020 can be achieved without additional or changes of policy measures (green traffic light).
Patient and physician rankings of individual indicators differed for 25 indicators.
FAO is the 'custodian' UN agency for 21 indicators, for SDGs 2, 5, 6, 12, 14 and 15 and a contributing agency for four more.
