Sustainable development is a part of every recent global agenda; the world has been trying to establish a more sustainable path and various goals and targets have been set to achieve this. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), introduced by the United Nations in 2015, aim to tackle economic, social and environmental issues that plague the world and to promote the concept of sustainability. This paper provides a comprehensive literature review regarding each SDG, the problem that each one addresses and why it is important to tackle it. Recent data regarding various targets are provided and compared to previous years, while a trend analysis is carried out to evaluate global progress and in different world regions. Based on UN estimations, an evaluation is extracted of each SDG’s progress and those areas where attention is needed are identified. These assessments reveal that economy-related targets, such as targets included in the 8th SDG (decent work and economic growth), the 9th (industry, innovation and infrastructure) and 12th SDG (responsible consumption and production) are close to being achieved, while acceleration is needed in order to achieve targets and goals regarding education (4th SDG), cities and communities’ sustainability (11th SDG) and in particular climate change (13th SDG).

可持续发展是最近所有全球议程的一部分；世界一直在尝试建立一条更可持续的道路，并为此设定了各种目标。联合国于2015年提出的17个可持续发展目标（SDG）旨在解决困扰世界的经济，社会和环境问题，并推广可持续性概念。本文提供了有关每个SDG，每个SDG所解决的问题以及解决它的重要性的全面文献综述。提供了有关各种目标的最新数据，并与往年进行了比较，同时进行了趋势分析，以评估全球进展以及不同世界地区的发展。根据联合国的估计，提取每个SDG进度的评估，并确定需要关注的领域。这些评估表明，与经济有关的目标，例如即将实现的第八个可持续发展目标（体面劳动和经济增长），第九个可持续发展目标（工业，创新和基础设施）和第十二个可持续发展目标（负责任的消费和生产）所包含的目标，而与此同时，为了实现有关教育（第四届可持续发展目标），城市和社区的可持续性（十一届可持续发展目标），尤其是气候变化（十三届可持续发展目标）的目标和目标，需要加速。