12 September - On 15 September 2025, UN Women and UN DESA will launch the Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2025, the latest edition in an annual series. Covering all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the report spotlights the latest data and evidence on gender equality, tracking trends and revealing progress and gaps.
This year marks key milestones for global gender equality, with the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, the 25th of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, and the UN’s 80th anniversary. 2025 also marks the 10-year anniversary of the SDGs, with only five years remaining to achieve them.
In just over a decade, these Goals have inspired significant changes for women and girls - from new laws upholding women’s rights to measurable increases in women’s education and well-being. Yet progress remains far short of ambition. For SDG 5 on gender equality, no indicator or sub-indicator has reached “target met or almost met.” Only one is “close to target,” 10 are at a “moderate distance to target,” two are “far from target,” one is “very far from target” and four lack sufficient data.
Hard-won gains could be derailed by climate change, conflict and a global backlash against women’s rights. The failure to achieve gender equality comes with a high cost, for women and girls – and everyone else. An accelerated SDG push in social protection, the green economy, education, labour markets, innovation and effective governance can reduce global female extreme poverty from 9.2 per cent in 2025 to 2.7 per cent in 2050 and can unlock an additional $35.6 trillion in global GDP in 2050.
Gender equality is our path to a better future, one that the world must choose to follow for all women and girls. With five years left to reach the SDGs, the report outlines bold investments and collective actions to power faster progress.
The full report will be available on 15 September 2025 at 3 pm EDT: The Gender Snapshot Report 2025