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Table 2 German Sustainable Development Goals complemented by digital indicators

From: Linking sustainability and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: a monitoring framework accounting for technological development

SDG no.

Indicator field

SDG measuring indicator

 

1

Poverty

Materially deprived persons

1-1-a

Severely materially deprived persons

1-1-b

2

Farming

Nitrogen surplus

2-1-a

Organic farming

2-1-b

Payments to developing and emerging countries to support good governance for food security

2-2-a

3

Health and nutrition

Premature mortality—female

3-1-a

Premature mortality—male

3-1-b

Smokers, adults

3-1-c

Smokers, youth

3-1-d

Obesity, youth

3-1-e

Obesity adults

3-1-f

Emissions air pollutants

3-2-a

Fine dust

3-2-b

4

Education and training

Early school leavers

4-1-a

Early school leavers, female

 

Early school leavers, male

 

30 to 34-year-olds with tertiary or post-secondary non-tertiary education

4-1-b

Full day care, 0–2-year-olds

4-2-a

Full day care, 3–5-year-olds

4-2-b

5

Equal opportunities

Earnings gap between women and men

5-1-a

Women in management positions in the economy

5-1-b

Professional qualification of girls and women through German development cooperation

5-1-c

6

Water quality

Phosphorus in running waters

6-1-a

Nitrate in groundwater

6-1-b

Development cooperation for drinking water and sanitation

6-2-a

7

Resource conservation

Final energy productivity

7-1-a

Primary energy consumption

7-1-b

Share of renewable energies in gross final energy consumption

7-2-a

Share of electricity from renewable energy sources in gross electricity consumption

7-2-b

8

Employment

Total raw material productivity

8-1-a

Government deficit

8-2-a

Structural deficit

8-2-b

Debt level

8-2-c

Ratio of gross fixed capital formation to GDP

8-3-a

Gross domestic product per inhabitant

8-4-a

Employment rate, 20–64 years

8-5-a

Employment rate, 60–64 years

8-5-b

Number of members of the Textile Alliance

8-6-a

9

Innovation

Private and public expenditure on R&D

9-1-a

Digitalization

9-1-b

10

Equal educational opportunities

Foreign school leavers

10-1-a

Gini coefficient for income distribution

10-2-a

11

Housing

Increase in settlement and transport area

11-1-a

Loss of free space

11-1-b

Population density

11-1-c

Final energy consumption in freight transport

11-2-a

Final energy consumption in passenger transport

11-2-b

Accessibility of central and regional centers by public transport

11-2-c

Share of persons in households spending more than 40% of disposable income on housing

11-3-a

12

Sustainable consumption

Market share of products with government eco-labels

12-1-a

Direct CO2 emissions and CO2 content of consumer goods

12-1- b

Use of the environmental management system EMAS in Germany

12-2-a

Share of recycled paper with the Blue Angel in the total paper consumption of the immediate federal administration

12-3-a

CO2 emissions per mileage of public-sector vehicles

12-3-b

13

Climate protection

Greenhouse gas emissions in CO2 equivalents

13-1-a

German payments primarily to developing and emerging countries for climate financing

13-1-b

14

Protecting the oceans

Total nitrogen concentration in North Sea

14-1-a

Total nitrogen concentration in Baltic Sea

 

Proportion of sustainably exploited fish stocks in the North Sea and Baltic Sea

14-1-b

15

Ecosystems

Biodiversity and landscape quality

15-1-a

Ecosystems with exceedance of load limits for eutrophication due to nitrogen inputs

15-2-a

Payments to developing and newly industrializing countries for the proven preservation or reconstruction of forests under the REDD + scheme

15-3-a

16

Good governance

Crimes

16-1-a

Number of projects implemented by Germany in affected regions of the world to secure, register and destroy small arms and light weapons

16-2-a

Corruption Perception Index in Germany

16-3-a

Corruption Perception Index in the partner countries of German Development Cooperation

16-3-b

17

Knowledge transfer, especially in technical areas

Share of public development expenditure in gross national income

17-1-a

Students and researchers from developing and transition countries in Germany

17-2-a

Imports from least developed countries (LDCs)

17-3-a

  1. The Digitalization category contains WEF-derived indicators and complements SDG 9 [75, 76]. This table illustrates how they integrate into the overall measurement approach of the GSDS