Top Scoring SDGs

The top three scoring SDGs and SDG 17* are used in the overall ranking. Each score is normalized and accounts for 26 percent of the total while SDG 17 accounts for 22 percent. Because THE ask different questions in each SDG, the range of scores may vary.

For example, in SDG 4 the highest score may be 89.2 and the lowest 15.1, whereas in SDG 8 the highest score may be 76.3 and the lowest may be 7.2.

In order to generate the overall ranking these scores are scaled so the range for all SDGs is 0 – 100. It is these scaled scores that are used to produce the overall ranking.

*SDG 17 is the deduplicated count of all publications from SDGs 1-16.