The United Nations (UN) launched the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, in 2016 as a blueprint to achieve a better world by 2030. The SDGs address challenges including poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation. However, despite their significance, progress towards meeting these SDGs has been slow.

Only 16% of the goals are on track to be achieved by 2030, according to the SDG Transformation Center, a UN task force created to drive SDG progress.

In Southeast Asia, headway has been made in some areas but there have also been serious regional setbacks, according to 2022 data from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Statistics Division. The region’s poverty figure – directly related to SDG1: No Poverty – increased by 27.8% in 2022 compared to 2016’s figure. Its unemployment rate, which comes under SDG8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, went up by 5.4% during this period.

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