The World Bank published the 2020 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on November 16, 2020. This Atlas outlines the United Nations SDGs through interactive storytelling and innovative data visualizations.
Expanding Understanding of Key Trends
The goal of the SDGs is to address the world’s greatest challenges such as eliminating poverty, eradicating hunger, expanding access to education, achieving gender equality, and addressing the climate crisis.
The Atlas aims to expand understanding of key SDG indicators and trends, which is important for measuring progress and directing action. The 2020 edition seeks new and creative ways to expand understanding of each of the 17 goals.
Collective Insights
The 2020 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals builds insights from data scientists, statisticians, and subject specialists from the World Bank, including a talented team of data visualization designers. In addition, the Atlas collaborates with partner countries and UN agencies in monitoring the SDGs and improving measurement.
Storytelling through Creative Visuals
The 2020 Atlas explores each SDG target and highlights trends that show achievement towards the SDGs. Additionally, the atlas shows readers how a few of the SDGS are measured. The chapters also highlight the recent emerging impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the indicators and trends presented in the atlas.
Visuals and data in the Atlas are drawn from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators and showcases new data from scientists and researchers around the globe.
Each chapter in the Atlas provides readers with an interactive experience. For instance, in the chapter on SDG 3 (Good health and well-being) readers are introduced to a visual that allows them to easily see the trend in measles immunization within an income group and in each individual country over 40 years.
The chapter on SDG 14, which covers life below water, the world map highlights oceans making it easy to see the distribution of endangered marine life, such as corals.
Originally published on the World Bank on November 16, 2020. You can read more here.