Refinitiv has launched Country Sustainable Development Scores to measure how extensively a country meets UN SDGs.
Norway tops the list of overall scores followed by the UK.
Refinitiv says the scores provide comparisons at the country level for fund managers, advisors and investors. The Country SDGs scores cover 210 countries, 17 UN SDGs and 148 benchmarked metrics that compose the SDGs. They are calculated on an annual basis providing an overall SDG level and individual metric level performance scores.
Top 25 Countries with the highest SDG Scores (%):
Ranking Country Overall Score
1 Norway 9.25
2 United Kingdom 9
3 Switzerland 9
4 Sweden 9
5 Netherlands 9
6 Iceland 9
7 Germany 9
8 Denmark 9
9 Finland 9
10 France 9
12 Austria 9
13 Monaco 9
14 Czech Republic 8.75
15 Belgium 8.5
16 Luxembourg 8.5
17 Australia 8.5
18 New Zealand 8.5
19 Estonia 8.25
20 Japan 8
21 Uruguay 8
22 United States 8
23 Spain 8
24 Slovenia 8
25 Portugal 8
The scores are available on Refinitiv Eikon.