2 October 2019: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has made its central statistical database available online, including data on SDG indicators where available. The database is searchable by country, keywords and sub-region, and provides summaries of progress towards each SDG.

The Key Indicators Database contains macroeconomic and social data on 49 countries beginning with the year 2000, relating to: people, economy and output; money, finance, and prices; globalization; transport and communications; energy and electricity; and the environment. It is updated once a year, providing users with an interactive tool in complement to the annual publication of the key indicators report. The most recent data update was made on 2 October 2019.

On eradicating poverty (SDG 1), the analysis shows that developing countries in Asia have made great gains. From 2002 to 2018, all sub-regions greatly reduced extreme poverty, with East Asia being the most successful, as just 0.7% of population remains in extreme poverty. Cambodia, Nepal and Tajikistan were most successful in reducing the share of the working poor as a percentage of the total population. Whereas in 2002, developing countries in Asia had 1.1 billion people leaving in extreme poverty, this number fell to 264 million by 2015. [ADB Key Indicators Database] [SDG Progress Summaries]