Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an
adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. The
International Council of Nurses’ (ICN) 2025 report Caring for nurses strengthens
economies reinforces the central role of nurses in achieving the health-related
targets of the SDGs. The 2025 State of the World’s Nursing report provides
extraordinarily valuable and robust nursing data and ICN strongly encourages
policy-makers, nursing associations, regulators, development partners, partner
organizations and other stakeholders to use this report for policy dialogue and
decision-making on how and where to strengthen nursing to achieve universal
health coverage and the other health-related SDGs.