This brochure presents a statistical overview of the most recent trends of the EU SDG indicators over a five-year period (‘short term’); the specific years depend on data availability for the individual indicators. It shows EU progress towards the SDGs for the individual indicators and also presents the average progress for each of the 17 SDGs, based on the mean score of the selected indicators for the respective goal, including the multi-purpose indicators (3). Studies and reports that consider current status rather than progress, different indicators or different time spans may come to different conclusions.