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REVIEW OF PROGRESS TO ACHIEVE THE SDGS, 2015-19
The 43 countries that volunteered to present VNRs in 2017 were Afghanistan, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Maldives, Monaco, Nepal, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Qatar, Slovenia, Sweden, Tajikistan, Thailand, Togo, Uruguay, and Zimbabwe.
b_ Keyword Analysis of 2017 VNRs The 2017 analysis that the 5 countries out of 45 with the most frequent references to ‘culture’ and ‘cultural’, in terms of number of keyword occurrence proportional to total number of pages, were Italy, Cyprus, Portugal, United Arab Emirates and Argentina (see Table 1: Use of keywords ‘culture’ and ‘cultural’ in VNRs by country, 2016-19.) Figure 10: The use of keywords reflecting the ‘three dimensions’ of sustainable development and the ‘fourth’ (‘culture’), in VNRs of 2017. 15
VNR Reports 2017
443 5% 1860 23%
3841 47%
2055 25%
Society/Social
Economy/Economic
15. Note: The frequency of the term ‘socio-economic’ has been equally divided and added to those of ‘social’ and ‘economic’
Environment/Environmental
Culture/Cultural
