Fig. 1.

Logic for identifying assessable, country-level SDG targets. Note: * Numbers differ for the special case of least developed countries (LDCs). Targets 8.1 and 9.2 are quantified and measurable at the country level for LDCs. For all other countries, a proxy target cannot be established for these two targets. For LDCs, there are instead 37 quantified and measurable targets and 57 that do not pass the same test. Of those 57, the same 43 proxy targets can be established as for non-LDCs, yielding a total of 80 targets for which LDCs could potentially be assessed for on or off-track status and 14 targets for which they cannot. Source: Authors’ calculations.