Sustainable development in the European Union. Monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context. 2026 edition
The EU is fully committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations in September 2015. Eurostat monitors the EU’s progress towards the SDGs along a set of 102 indicators. The EU indicator set has been carefully selected in cooperation with a large number of stakeholders based on criteria of statistical quality and relevance in an EU policy context. The indicators are assessed annually over a short-term (past five or six years of available data) and over a long-term (15 years) period. This report is the tenth in the series. It includes a chapter on the EU in the world and spillover effects of EU consumption. Regional differences within countries are presented for a selection of SDG indicators. In addition, a new chapter analyses the EU SDG indicator set using alternative classifications that reveal additional, cross-cutting patterns of sustainable development.