India's SDG Journey: Global Trajectory and NITI Aayog's Domestic Index Quiz — 7 Free Questions

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India's climb to 94th place in the 2026 global UN SDG Index caps a multi-year trajectory visible across recent editions of the Sustainable Development Report. India ranked 120th in 2021, then slipped slightly to 121st in 2022, before improving to 112th in 2023, and 109th in 2024, with a score of 63.99 that year out of 166 countries ranked, ahead of its 2026 jump to 94th out of 167 countries with a score of 68.3.

This global ranking, prepared by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), is distinct from India's own separate, domestic SDG India Index, developed by NITI Aayog with technical support from the United Nations in India. Rather than ranking India against other countries, the SDG India Index instead ranks India's own states and union territories against one another, using 113 indicators spanning 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals. Launched in 2018 with a baseline composite score of around 57, India's domestic SDG India Index score rose to 66 in the 2020-21 edition and further to 71 in the 2023-24 edition, its most recent edition at the time of writing.

India is recognised as the first country in the world to develop a government-led, sub-national measure of SDG progress, distinguishing this domestic index from the SDSN's purely country-level global comparison.

Question 1

In which year was the domestic SDG India Index first launched?

Question 2

At what rank did India stand in the global SDG Index in 2021?

Question 3

How many indicators does the SDG India Index use, spanning how many SDGs?

Question 4

To what score did the domestic SDG India Index rise in its 2023-24 edition, its most recent at the time?

Question 5

What separate index tracks India's own states and union territories, distinct from the global SDG Index?

Question 6

Overall, between 2021 and 2026, how did India's global SDG Index rank trend, despite the 2021-2022 dip?

Question 7

Who provides technical support for NITI Aayog's domestic SDG India Index?

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About India's SDG Journey: Global Trajectory and NITI Aayog's Domestic Index

BriskQuiz's Current Affairs & General Knowledge category brings you quizzes built around real, recent events, verified and written within months of when they actually happened, so you stay genuinely current rather than relying on stale trivia.

This quiz covers India's year-by-year global SDG Index trajectory between 2021 and 2026, and clarifies how that global ranking differs from NITI Aayog's own separate, domestic SDG India Index.

The twenty-five questions move through India's rank in each recent year, to the global index's publishing body, the structure and history of the domestic SDG India Index, and a multi-statement combination question tying it all together.

Only five of the twenty-five questions are shown on any single attempt, so replaying this quiz brings a genuinely different mix of angles on the same theme rather than the same five memorised by rote.