ANNEX
The official indicator framework for SDG 16 proposes 10 targets and 23 indicators. Of these, 16 indicators are
classified as Tier II and 1 indicator is classified as Tier III, as of April 2019. Data for Tier I indicators is also
scarce – often data exists for only a single year making it difficult to measure progress. As SDG16 targets are
composite targets and require compound indictors to measure progress, data from different sources are used to
track progress. Currently, the main sources for data for assessing progress towards this goal are data collected
by agencies such as United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the World Bank, and made available through the
ESCAP database. Efforts, such as the Praia Group on Governance Statistics, are currently underway at the global
level to improve definition and harmonization of governance indicators, through the development of manuals
and methodological guidelines.
Proxy
16.5.P1
Corruption perceptions index, Scores
Official
16.1.1
Number of victims of intentional homicide per 100,000 population, by sex and age
Official
16.3.2
Unsentenced detainees as a proportion of overall prison population
Official
16.5.2
Proportion of businesses that had at least one contact with a public official and that paid
a bribe to a public official, or were asked for a bribe by those public officials during …
Official
16.8.1
Proportion of members and voting rights of developing countries in international
organizations
Official
16.9.1
Proportion of children under 5 years of age whose births have been registered with a civil
authority, by age
Official
16.a.1
Existence of independent national human rights institutions in compliance with the Paris
Principles
Table 1. Official and proxy indicators for SDG 16 for which there is at least one data point for more than half of
ESCAP countries
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The profile for SDG 16 was developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with inputs from
the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).