This report by the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the United Nations system, present an overview of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to inform the highlevel political forum, as mandated by General Assembly resolution 70/1 (para. 83). It is based on a selection of indicators for which data are available, from the global indicator framework developed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators and adopted by the General Assembly at its seventy-first session in July 2017 (resolution 71/313). Some targets are not reflected at this stage, owing to a lack of data, or because they are measured by indicators that are still undergoing methodological development.