SDG INDIA INDEX AND DASHBOARD 2020–21

Overall Results and Findings

• The country’s overall SDG score improved by 6 points—from 60 in 2019 to 66 in 2020–21.
  
  
• This improvement is largely driven by exemplary country-wide performance in Goal 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) and Goal 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), where the composite Goal scores are 83 and 92, respectively.
  
  
• India saw significant improvement in the SDGs related to clean energy, urban development, Health, eradication of poverty and hunger in 2020.
  
  
• However, there has been a major decline in the areas of industry, innovation and infrastructure as well as decent work and economic growth. The country’s score on the SDG related to industry and infrastructure dropped 10 points to 55, while the scores on decent work dropped three points to 61.
  
  
• The Clean Water and Sanitation SDG also saw a five-point drop.