Progress Towards Sustainable Development Goals (HL IB Economics)

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• The prevalence of undernourishment considers the percentage of the population whose food intake is "insufficient to meet dietary energy requirements for a minimum of one year" (SDGIndex)

• "Dietary energy requirements are defined as the amount of dietary energy required by an individual to maintain body functions, health and normal activity" (SDGIndex)

• There has been good progress with the value falling from 27 in 2001 to 3.40 in 2019

• Undernourishment causes productivity to fall and it can be assumed that with more nourishment, health and productivity will improve

• Since 2015, there has been a slight increase in the undernourishment indicator

• This metric consider "the percentage of adults, 15 years and older, who report having an account (by themselves or with someone else) at a bank or another type of financial institution, or who have personally used a mobile money service within the past 12 months" (SDGIndex)

• Access to banking increases the ability to make transactions that can improve the standard of living e.g. remote vendors selling agricultural products can receive payment by mobile phone

• Between 2014 and 2018 there has been a significant improvement in access to banking moving from 20% of the population to 50%

• This value is still well below the target but the data is not current and judging by the trend, the current percentage could be a lot higher

• The number of intentional homicides per 100,000 people

• "Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes and interpersonal violence and do not include all killing, such as killing in armed conflict" (SDGIndex)

• The progress in Armenia between 2000 and 2020 has been erratic

• Overall, there is a positive downward trend from a value of 3 in 2000 to a value of 1.7 in 2020

• The value peaked in 2008/9 at 3.4

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Progress

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• The prevalence of undernourishment considers the percentage of the population whose food intake is "insufficient to meet dietary energy requirements for a minimum of one year" (SDGIndex)

• "Dietary energy requirements are defined as the amount of dietary energy required by an individual to maintain body functions, health and normal activity" (SDGIndex)

• Between 2008 and 2011 there was good progress with the value falling from 22 to 8

• Undernourishment has been increasing slowly, but steadily since then and in 2020 was at 13

• Undernourishment causes productivity to fall and it can be assumed that with increasing undernourishment, health and productivity will worsen

• This metric considers "the percentage of adults, 15 years and older, who report having an account (by themselves or with someone else) at a bank or another type of financial institution, or who have personally used a mobile money service within the past 12 months" (SDGIndex)

• Access to banking increases the ability to make transactions that can improve the standard of living e.g. remote vendors selling agricultural products can receive payment by mobile phone

• Progress is slow. Between 2011 and 2018 there has been a small improvement in access to banking moving from 38% of the population to 50%

• In the final 4 years the increasing trend was starting to flatten

• This value is still well below the target but the data is not current. However, judging by the trend, the current percentage is not likely to be much higher

• The number of intentional homicides per 100,000 people

• "Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes and interpersonal violence and do not include all killing, such as killing in armed conflict" (SDGIndex)

• The progress in Ecuador between 2000 and 2020 has been mostly positive

• It initially increased between 2001 and 2007 when it peaked at a value of 18

• Homicides then fell steadily until 2018 with the lowest recorded value of 6

• Since 2018 there has been a concerning upward trend in this value

• Overall, there is a positive downward trend from a value of 15 in 2000 to a value of 8 in 2020