National Indicator Framework Progress Report 2025
Source: PIB
GS II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation
Overview
- News in Brief
- About National Indicator Framework Progress Report, 2025 – Sustainable Development Goals
- Highlights from the SDG NIF progress report 2025
Why in the News?
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released the following publications on Sustainable Development Goals – National Indicator Framework Progress Report, 2025
News in Brief
- Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released the following publications on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
- Sustainable Development Goals – National Indicator Framework Progress Report, 2025
- Data Snapshot on Sustainable Development Goals – National Indicator Framework, Progress Report, 2025
- Sustainable Development Goals – National Indicator Framework, 2025
About National Indicator Framework Progress Report, 2025 – Sustainable Development Goals
- The report presents the time series data on the SDG national indicators, received from the data source Ministries, which will be instrumental in monitoring the national-level progress of the 17 SDGs.
- SDG Progress Reports, released by MoSPI, serve as valuable tools for policymakers, planners, and other stakeholders.
About the report
- SDGs NIF serves as the backbone for monitoring SDGs at the national level.
- The report offers valuable guidance to policymakers and the implementing agencies of various schemes and programs.
- The major data sources for these SDG national indicators are administrative data, surveys and censuses.
- Primarily, secondary data from concerned line Ministries is used for the compilation of the indicators.
The report consists of four main sections
- Overview and Executive Summary: The ‘Overview’ covers the background of SDG-NIF along with the role and steps taken by MoSPI for facilitating the monitoring of SDGs at the national level. ‘Executive Summary’ includes a goal-wise summary highlighting/ progress made during the period under reference.
- Data Snapshot: presenting the data summary of the SDG national indicators.
- Metadata: contains information on each indicator describing goal, target, level & type of disaggregation, mapping with global indicator, unit of measurement, link/source(s) of data availability, etc.
- Data Tables: presenting time series data on the indicators, wherever available.
Data Snapshot on Sustainable Development Goals – National Indicator Framework, Progress Report, 2025
- It is a derived report, in handbook form, from the Sustainable Development Goals – National Indicator Framework Progress Report, 2025.
- It provides national-level time series data for the SDG indicators.
Sustainable Development Goals – National Indicator Framework, 2025
- It is also a derived report, in handbook form, from the Sustainable Development Goals – National Indicator Framework Progress Report, 2025.
- Report encompassing all the national SDG indicators along with their data source and periodicity.
- The report consists of 284 national SDG indicators.
Highlights from the SDG NIF progress report 2025
- Social Protection
- The population covered by social protection systems/floors has increased from 22% in 2016 to 64.3% in 2025.
- Agriculture
- Gross Value Added in agriculture per worker (in Rs.) has increased from 61,247 in 2015-16 to 94,110 in 2024-25.
- Drinking Water
- The percentage of the population using an improved drinking water source in rural areas has increased from 94.57% in 2015-16 to 99.62% in 2024-25.
- Renewable energy’s
- Total installed electricity generation has increased from 16.02 in 2015-16 to 22.13 in 2024-25.
- Installed renewable energy generating capacity in the country has increased from 64.04 watts per capita in 2014-15 to 156.31 watts per capita 2024-25.
- Waste Recycling
- The number of waste recycling plants installed has increased from 829 in 2019-20 to 3036 in 2024- 25.
- The percentage of waste processed has increased from 17.97% in 2015-16 to 80.7% in 2024-25
- Start Up
- The number of start-ups recognised under Start-up India has increased from 453 in 2016 to 34,293 in 2024.
- Gini coefficient of household expenditure
- Decreased from 0.283 in 2011-12 to 0.237 in 2023-24 in rural areas.
- Also, for urban areas, it has decreased from 0.363 in 2011-12 to 0.284 in 2023-24.
- Emission Target
- The reduction in emissions intensity of GDP in 2020 over the 2005 level is 36%.
- Digital Connectivity
- The total number of internet subscriptions (in millions) has increased from 302.36 in 2015 to 954.40 in 2024.
- Forest Cover
- The percentage of total geographical area has increased from 21.34% in 2015 to 21.76% in 2023.
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