SDG'S and Pakistan

 Pakistan ranked 129 out of 165 country in a recent sustainable development goals SDG'S  index ranking the country saw moderate improvement in the goals for poverty health and well being water and sanitation decent work, peace and Justice partnerships but it stagnated on zero hunger quality education gender in equality Clean Energy innovation sustainable cities and community the UN in Pakistan has been Supporting Pakistan in various except of its endeavor to realise SDG'S  UN is contributing in technology and policies in Pakistan to achieve SDG'S  the Pakistan and UN in Pakistan signed the UN sustainable development Framework also known as one unit one Nation program Pakistan is affirmed it's commitment to the 2030 agenda for sustainable development by adopting SDG'S  as its own National development agenda through  national assembly resolution 2016 in Pakistan SDG'S  support unit have been established at federal and provisional level with planning institutions to guide SDG'S  implementation and monitoring progress. in 2018 the government designed and approved our national SDG'S  Framework that envisages our national vision to priorities and localise SDG'S  localised provincial SDG frame works are being formulated the focus of the government is on main streaming SDG'S  in Planning process ensuring through monitoring and reporting on SDG'S  insurance public financial allocation are aligned to SDG'S  and  alternate financing modalities are being explored and  to benefit from use of technology to accelerate progress towards SDG'S 

In global gender gap index Pakistan was ranked 153 in 2021 in Human Development Index Pakistan rank 154th in 2021 the 38% of Pakistan population living with multi dimensional poverty Pakistan has an estimate population of over 220 million in 2021 and growth rate of 1.95percent per year adding 5.28 million people per year to it is population it is projected to surpass indonesians in size around the year 2048

In education sector the quality of education and employability of school graduate is very low and the growing young population as little to no access to quality schooling, the literacy rate remain abysmal at 59% specially female literacy. Pakistan is also facing an Energy Crisis this is not a recent issue both domestic and industry users have suffered power shortage and blackout for years. in 2012, in Faisalabad the textile industry hub 68 unit went into closure resulting in 1 million unemployed labour and a loss of  billions annually between 2010 and 2013 hurting the sector that contribute 9.8% of total GDP at accounts for 39% of total employment Pakistan also has one of the highest rate of urbanization in South Asia urban area have expanded immensely between 1995 and 2015 the various Urban Sector convert 3016 hectares of agriculture land annually for urban use in Metropolitan Lahore and if this rate does not slow by 2030 all agriculture land at the fringes of cities will be urbanized beyond this challenges Pakistan has major water shortage it is rank 14th out of 150 countries at high raise of water crisis it is noted that 17 million people in Pakistan lack access to clean water at home and 70 million lack access to a decent toilet

despite growth in income inflation remain above 6% rising the cost of staples and even in the face of high unemployment rate of 16% amount the educated middle class in 2018 to 2019 and increase wealth inequality the world food program say that 21% of Pakistan population is malnourished 44% of children under 5 year old have stunted growth and 37% of population faces food in security despite Pakistan being a major producer of wheat and rice

The sustainable development report 2021 has released and hotly debate among policy circles Pakistan with an overall index score in 2021 of 57.7 means that the country is on average 57.7% on the way to the best possible outcomes across the 17 SDG'S  this score is 1.5% higher than the country score in 2020 Pakistan is categorised in the east and South Asia region that comprises 21 countries including China and Singapore pushing the regional score upward compare 220 Pakistan performance has increased by 3% in the region.despite the covid-19 Global push back Pakistan SDG Global rank is 129 in 2021 improved by 5 ranks 134 in 2020 compare to its neighbours Bangladesh ranks stayed at 109 during 2020 and 2021 India rank decline by 3 from 117 to 120 between 2020 and 2021

population with access to clean fuel and Technology for cooking SDG indicators 7.1.2 has been reported 43.3% in 2016 according to latest National data source the population with the access to clean fuel and Technology for cooking increase by 5.7%  2015– 2019 and stand at 47% in 2019 – 2020 according to the Pakistan Bureau of statics covid-19 specified survey (2020) 27.31 million working population was affected related to SDG 1no poverty and SDG2 no hunger and SDG 8 on decent work and economic growth 20.6 million people could not work during the first wave of pendemic. in 2020 6.7 million peoples income was declined 74% of the informal workers were affected the government came up with an 1.24 trillion stimulus package to boost over all economic situation as specially in the bid to reduce the impact of covid-19 on  poverty SDG1 hunger SDG 2 health SDG 3 and SDG 8 on decent work and economic growth

Pakistan like other developing countries faces huge fiscal challenges to meet SDG'S  this has been also acknowledge in the sustainability report 2021 according to an International Monetary Fund study 2021 on the costing of SDG'S  related to education health and physical capital electricity road  water and sanitation additional annual spending of about 60% of GDP will be required until 2030 from the public and private sector combined to help these SDG'S