Organizations' sustainable development performance globally 2018

This statistic displays the opinion of qualified sustainability experts on the performance of various organizations contributing to sustainable development worldwide as of 2018. During the surveying period, some 36 percent of the surveyed experts qualified the contributions of the United Nations to sustainable development as "excellent".

Opinion on the performance of organizations contributing to sustainable development among experts worldwide as of 2018

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Release date

July 2018

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

April 9 to May 15, 2018

Number of respondents

729 respondents

Special properties

qualified sustainability experts

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

729 qualified sustainability experts completed this online questionnaire, and were drawn from the following sectors: 5% government, 23% service and media, 16% academic and research, 36% corporate, 15% NGOs and 6% other. The surveyed experts span 70 countries in the following regions: 30% North America, 37% Europe, 20% Asia Pacific, 8% Latin America and 6% Africa.

Original question: "How would you rate the performance of each of the following types of organizations in terms of its contribution to progress on sustainable development since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio? Please use a scale where 1 is “poor” and 5 is “excellent”." Figures do not add up to 100 as other answers were not included.
* The "Excellent" figures represent the share of experts awarding a score of 4 or 5 in the described scale.
** The "Poor" figures represent the the share of experts awarding a score of 1 or 2 in the described scale.

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