I stumbled upon it because I was wondering why every country seemed to be synchronized on a 2030 plan, and found them that they had all signed up to the plan in 2015. It being bureaucratic organisation means there will be documentation galore.

https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2025/

Poverty has decreased pretty much consistently. Infant mortality has gone down. Access to clean energy up. Etc, the trend seems to be positive, no?

You said "the only measures that are consistently improving are those around governance and control not the well being of people". Can you point out an example from the report of what you mean?