The ninth United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to build resistant infrastructure,
promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.
Global manufacturing production plummeted as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, falling
6.8% in 2020. 2020 has had catastrophic effects on air travel demands. Air passengers dropped
from $4.5 billion in 2019 to $1.8 billion in 2020. That's a 60% decline.
Poverty is a factor of medium and high-tech products fueled economic recovery in late
2020. 4% growth compared to the same period in 2019. Enhancing rural road connectivity
helps reduce poverty. Almost $300 million out of $520 million rural dwellers lacked
good access to roads in 25 countries in 2018 to 2019.
First investment in R&D is essential to finding solutions for crises such as COVID-19. $2.2
trillion in global investments in R&D in 2018 and 1,235 researchers per million inhabitants
in the same year.