Since their adoption in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ambitioned to be universal and indivisible, have become a dominant framework to discuss development matters, especially in the international stage. This work aims at bringing information on whether or not the SDGs provide a good mapping of development priorities as expressed by countries. We develop a new analysis of the SDG framework (or 2030 Agenda) by systematically mapping the national development priorities displayed by 117 countries in their long-term development documents. We thus categorize each priority under its related SDG(s) and create a typology of documents, along with a visualization tool – which displays how SDGs are prioritized across countries. We show that only a few priorities do not fit in – notably some related to defence and population growth. Moreover, some SDGs are largely more prioritized, and there are many documents in which not all SDGs appear. These tool and database might inform many development-related questions – here enabling us to discuss the relevance and aimed universality of the 2030 Agenda in the light of its connections with national development priorities.

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