Following their adoption in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become the world’s shared goals, but their operationalization and ultimate achievement at the country level requires clear baselines, public discussions about implementation priorities, the design of goal-based strategies, and effective follow-through mechanisms. This, in turn, depends on timely and comprehensive data being available to inform public discussions and policy design processes.

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This dashboard report, Africa SDG Index and Dashboards 2018, is a tool to track progress toward the SDGs, to help pinpoint key implementation challenges, and to assist countries in benchmarking their SDG performance against their African peers. It draws on official and unofficial SDG data as well as elements of Agenda 2063 to identify priorities for action in order to achieve the SDGs. 51 countries are ranked in the Index and all 54 African countries have full country profiles with detailed dashboards and trends analysis.