The 17th United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to strengthen the means of implementation
and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
ODA reached a record high of $161 billion in 2020, representing a 32% increase of donors' GNI,
but still short of the target of 0.7% of GNI.
Defying predictions remittance flows to low- and middle-income countries
who reached $540 billion in 2020, which is only 1.6% below the 2019 level.
Foreign direct investment dropped by up to 40%, and nearly half of the global population,
3.7 billion people, are still not online, despite the immense need for connectivity during the pandemic.
63% of low-income and lower- to middle-income countries are in need of additional financing
for data and statistics to face the challenges posed by the pandemic.