Sustainable Development Report 2025
UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network · Published 24 June 2025
Latest edition: 24 June 2025 · Next expected: June 2027
This ranking is flawed. The method is open, but modelled values carry no error bars and the funding is only partly disclosed.
What the report claims
The Sustainable Development Report measures each country’s progress on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, using official data from UN custodian agencies and the World Bank, with equal weights across the goals and a published methodology, indicator-level data, and country dashboards. India ranks 99th of 167, with a score of 66.95, its first time in the top 100, up from 109th in 2024. The indicator list, target thresholds, and lower bounds are all published, and the historical series is recalculated whenever indicators change so the trend stays comparable.
The Credibility Score, dimension by dimension
- Methodology transparency / replicability
- 14 / 20
- Source verifiability + measurement integrity
- 15 / 25
- Internal consistency of India’s place
- 12 / 20
- Construct validity / India coverage
- 5 / 10
- Independence and funding
- 7 / 20
- Accountability (corrections, versioning)
- 2 / 5
Funding and independence: The report is produced by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network with the Bertelsmann Stiftung as its long-standing philanthropic partner, plus wider support from governments, development agencies, and foundations. SDSN states its mission as advancing the Sustainable Development Goals through research and advocacy, and the report recommends policy and financing choices. A complete public schedule of amounts, restrictions, and funder roles for the 2025 edition is not published, and there is no formal public log of later corrections to individual country figures.
Sources: UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Sustainable Development Report 2025
Updated 9 November 2026