SDG Performance Evaluation
SDG Division - NITI Aayog
AND PRODUCTION
QO
CLIMATE
13
ACTION
SDG 15 Indicators
Uttar
Indicator
Pradesh
India
Value
Data
Data Source
Period
14
LIFE
BELOW WATER
Forest cover as a percentage of total
geographical area
6.15
21.71
India State of Forest
Report 2021, FSI
2021
Tree cover as a percentage of total
geographical area
3.08
2.91
India State of Forest
Report 2021, FSI
2021
15 ON LAND
LIFE
Percentage of area covered under
afforestation schemes to the total
0.51
0.39
EnviStats 2022, MOSPI
2019-20
geographical area
National Remote
Percentage of degraded land over
11.86
27.77
Sensing Centre
total land area
(EnviStats 2022)
2015-16
16
PEACE, JUSTICE
AND STRONG
INSTITUTIONS
Percentage increase in area of
desertification
1.35
MoEFCC, Desertification
& Land Degradation
Atlas of India - Space
1.50
2018-19
Applications Centre,
Indian Space Research
Organization
1
NO
28
2
ZERO
HUNGER
POVERTY
Number of cases under Wildlife
Protection Act (1972) per million
hectares of protected area
Percentage change in carbon stock in
India State of Forest
1.34
1.11
2021
forest cover
Report 2021, FSI
Wildlife Crime Control
46.0
40.0
2020
Bureau, MoEFCCView entire presentation