Abstract In March 2017, the United Nations (UN) Statistical Commission adopted a measurement framework for the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, comprising of 232 indicators designed to measure the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their respective 169 targets. The scope of this measurement framework is so ambitious it led Mogens Lykketoft, President of the seventieth session of the UN General Assembly, to describe it as an ‘unprecedented statistical challenge’. Naturally, with a programme of this magnitude, there will be foreseen and unforeseen challenges and consequences. This article outlines some of the key differences between the Millennium Development Goals and the SDGs, before detailing some of the measurement challenges involved in compiling the SDG indicators, and examines some of the unanticipated consequences arising from the mechanisms put in place to measure progress from a broad political economy perspective.

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衡量可持续发展目标指标：前所未有的统计挑战

摘要2017年3月，联合国统计委员会通过了《联合国2030年可持续发展议程》的衡量框架，其中包括232项指标，旨在衡量17项可持续发展目标及其各自的169个目标。这一衡量框架的范围如此宏大，以至于导致联合国大会第七十届会议主席莫根斯·莱克托夫特（Mogens Lykketoft）将其描述为“前所未有的统计挑战”。自然，采用如此庞大的计划，将会有预见和无法预料的挑战和后果。本文概述了千年发展目标与可持续发展目标之间的一些主要区别，然后详细介绍了在编制可持续发展目标指标时涉及的一些衡量挑战，