About these numbers

Eleven series from NYC Open Data, loaded with their provenance intact. Every chart links back to the dataset it came from.

They are not interchangeable with national figures.

This instance exists to test where a city's data can and cannot be set against the UN SDG framework — and most pairs fail. Each variable carries a comparability grade and the reason for it; open any variable in the Knowledge Graph browser to read it.

Four that catch people:

• Infant deaths counts deaths under 1. The UN's child mortality indicator counts under 5. Both are raw counts, so the units agree and a chart of the two would look perfectly correct.
• Pregnancy-associated deaths counts any death within a year of pregnancy — deliberately broader than the UN's maternal mortality.
• Municipal waste covers DSNY residential and institutional collection only. Commercial waste is excluded, so NYC's figure is an undercount and its true standing is worse, not better.
• 2020 is absent from every per-100,000 series. There is no ACS 1-year release for 2020, and an interpolated denominator yields a rate indistinguishable from a measured one.

Method, the graded crosswalk and what failed: sarapis.github.io/undatacommons-nyc. Figures are NYC's own measurements, not UN estimates.