EU Sustainable Development Strategy
date: 29/06/2016
The EU Sustainable Development Strategy adopted in 2001, and renewed in 2006 and in 2009, defines the EU’s actions, objectives and targets aimed at putting Europe on the path towards sustainable development. Eurostat regularly monitors progress towards these objectives, using a set of more than 130 sustainable development indicators (SDIs), which are grouped into 10 themes. Most thematic areas include one headline indicator.
On a biannual basis, Eurostat publishes a monitoring report to update on progress based on the recent SDI data. The last report published in 2015 covers the period from 1990 to 2014 and describes the relationship between the EU SDS and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Theme |
Headline indicator |
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Socio-economic development |
Real GDP per capita, growth rate and totals |
Sustainable consumption and production |
Resource productivity |
Social inclusion |
Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion |
Demographic changes |
Employment rate of older workers |
Public health |
Healthy life years and life expectancy at birth, by sex |
Climate change and energy |
Greenhouse gas emissions Primary energy consumption |
Sustainable transport |
Energy consumption of transport relative to GDP |
Natural resources |
Common bird index |
Global partnership |
Official development assistance as share of gross national income |
Good governance |
No headline indicator |