Austria's Commitment to the 2030 Agenda

Alexandra
Wegscheider-Pichler
© Statistik Austria
Senior Expert in the area of social affairs & living
conditions of Statistics Austria
Monitoring of the 2030 Agenda in Austria:
Supervision of the Sustainable Development
Goals on a statistical level
Independent monitoring of reliable statistical
performance indicators is necessary
to indicate which goals of the 2030 Agenda
have already been successfully implemented
or which areas need particular
action. In Austria, Statistics Austria with
its national SDG indicators set issued since
2017 guarantees 14 , that the performance
indicators are calculated according to
international standards or comply with
the highest quality standards. Currently,
about 200 indicators which are annually
updated and developed are included. The
creation of these comprehensive sets, also
as compared internationally, requires broad
cooperation and coordination activities
with other data owners and stakeholders.
The third indicators report 15 of April 2023
allows us to catch a glimpse of the progress
Austria has made until the data year 2021 in
achievement of the SDGs. At the same time,
the report focuses on 126 content-related
targets of which 29 are already considered
as partly or entirely reached in 2021. For the
majority of these targets, there are indicators
available whose development trends
are evaluated according to the Eurostat
methods: if there is a time sequence and
clear normative target course, a positive or
negative development is marked according
to the total of 4 characteristics. It was
possible to evaluate 83 indicators, no trend
evaluation was possible for 37 other indicators.
The development from 2010 to 2021
was approx. 80% positive, almost one fifth
(19.3%) of the indicators were evaluated as
moderately or significantly negative. The
report also disclosed important data gaps
where no monitoring of goal achievement
was possible.
the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and
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