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Figure 2: Number of countries by number of targets adopted, and by number
of national target values set, for child-related targets

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Number of countries in each category 20
25

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10

5

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0 1-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20+
Number of targets adopted
Number of target values set

Target ambition level
Ambition levels of national target values were compared against global
SDG values among countries that adopted targets. However, as many national
target values have not yet been set (45 percent of targets across 93 countries,
hereafter “country-target pairs”), relative ambition levels cannot accurately be
determined (Figure 3). Countries may have politically adopted the target, but
have not yet set a 2030 or other future aim for its achievement in almost half
of the countries examined. In almost one in four country-target pairs, the
national target value was less ambitious than the global value, and in about
one in five country-target pairs the national target value equaled the global
value. In just 6 percent of country-target pairs, the national target value was
more ambitious than the global value. There were about 4 percent of country
target pairs where the target values were country-specific and could not
accurately be compared to global target values (Figure 3).

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