SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
Decent Work and Economic Growth SDG: promote sustained economic growth, higher levels of productivity and technological innovation. Encouraging entrepreneurship and job creation are key to this, as are effective measures to eradicate forced labour, slavery and human trafficking. With these targets in mind, the goal is to achieve full and productive employment, and decent work, for all women and men by 2030.
Example Opportunities
- How Countries are Working Towards Goal 8...
- Foster entrepreneurial culture and invest in or mentor young entrepreneurs
- Skills development programs and/or software applications
- Apprenticeship or mentorship opportunities
- Applications evaluating gender pay gap
- Addressing the creation of green jobs
Problem Statements from the Subject Matter Experts for consideration
- To improve the conscious access to credit of small entrepreneurs. | Gustavo Pereira Angelim
- To generate income and employment through access to cheaper credit for small businesses. | Gustavo Pereira Angelim
- Economic growth and job creation through the formalization of small companies. | Gustavo Pereira Angelim
- By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training. | Yatin Nana
- End racial and economic segregation. | Jahmal Cole
- End poverty, hopelessness, and violent crime. | Jahmal Cole
- Micro-enterprises and small merchants are no longer credit-constrained due to lack of data. | Ashirul Amin
- Youth with entrepreneurial propensities are identified and nurtured for success. | Ashirul Amin
- Low-income countries undergoing economic transition embrace automation as a key driver of meaningful work. | Ashirul Amin
UN Resources
These datasets are official statistics generated by the UN and its affiliated organizations and programs:
- UNESCO - Data for SDGs: Reports on progress for the indicators
- Global SDG Indicators Database: 17 years of data on the sub-indicators/metrics for each SDG
- SDG API Highways: New project from Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data to provide central repository for partner SDG data
- Worldbank World Development Indicators: The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources
- Sustainable Development Goals database: World Bank visualization tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics directly relating to the SDGs
Additional data resources
These datasets were independently created/aggregated by non-UN related parties. These can serve as additional references, and are not endorsed by Facebook.
- Facebook Future of Business Survey: Data collected on Facebook from more than 700,000 small and medium sized businesses on various global trends
- SDG.DATA.GOV: US Government effort to share data on the SDGs
- OECD Stats: Economic information from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
- GeoNames Data Sources: Geographical database that covers all countries and contains over eleven million location names
- Data.world Datasets: An open data platform that relies on open sharing and analysis of diverse datasets
- Linkedin Data for Development: Country-level trends for jobs and skills