The Minister of Planning and Economic Development in Egypt, Dr. Hala Al-Saeed, reviewed; Egypt’s position in the Sustainable Development Report 2022, which is published annually by the University of Cambridge in cooperation with the German (Bertelsmann Stiftung) Foundation, and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), which operates under the auspices of the United Nations Secretariat.
Minister Al-Saeed revealed that Egypt obtained a score of 68.7 in 2022, and thus was able to maintain its performance in the index; Although the regional average decreased from 67.1 in 2021 to 66.7 in 2022, it ranks 87th out of 163 countries covered by the report. Egypt ranked 7 out of the 20 Arab countries monitored by the report, and at the level of Africa; It ranked 4 out of 47 African countries, and 7th in the Middle East and North Africa region; Within 16 in the same region. She explained that Egypt ranked 15th out of 20 countries at the level of emerging markets in 2022.
Minister Al-Saeed stressed that "Egypt ranked 30 out of 163 countries, compared to 36 out of 165 countries in 2021, which reflects the improvement in its score in the index, which reached 98.82 out of 100, and thus the positive repercussions for Egypt rise compared to the negative." She pointed out that "multiple and simultaneous global crises such as COVID-19, the Ukraine-Russia war and other military conflicts have diverted policy attention and priorities away from medium and long-term goals such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement, and countries are not making progress on the SDGs."
Source (Youm7.com Website, Edited)
