In September 2000, all 189 member states of the United Nations signed
on to the Millennium Development Goals – a set of eight targets
which aim to halve world poverty by 2015. Each target has clear
indicators to measure progress and success.
The goals, which all have a target date of 2015, are:
| 1. |
Eradicate
extreme poverty and hunger |
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| a. |
reduce by half the proportion
of people living on less than a dollar (US) a day |
| b. |
reduce by half the proportion of
people who suffer from hunger |
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| 2. |
Achieve universal
primary education |
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| a. |
ensure that all children
complete primary schooling |
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| 3. |
Promote gender
equality and empower women |
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| a. |
ensure girls have the
same access to education as boys |
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| 4. |
Reduce child
mortality |
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| a. |
cut infant and child
deaths by two thirds |
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| 5. |
Improve maternal
health |
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| a. |
reduce by three quarters
the proportion of women dying in childbirth |
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| 6. |
Combat HIV/AIDS,
malaria and other diseases |
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| a. |
halt and begin to reverse
the spread of HIV/AIDS |
| b. |
begin to reverse the incidence of
malaria and other diseases like TB |
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| 7. |
Ensure environmental
sustainability |
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| a. |
reduce by half the proportion
of people without access to safe drinking water |
| b. |
transform the lives of at least 100
million slum dwellers by 2020 |
| c. |
reverse the loss of environmental
resources |
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| 8. |
Develop a global
partnership for development |
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| a. |
address issues such as
trade, debt, aid and public health to promote economic
growth and poverty reduction |
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List of goals targets and indicators.
• Goal 1: Eradicate
extreme poverty and hunger
• Goal 2: Achieve
universal primary education
• Goal 3: Promote
gender equality and empower women
• Goal 4: Reduce
child mortality
• Goal 5: Improve
maternal health
• Goal 6: Combat
HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Goal 7: Ensure
environmental sustainability
• Goal 8: Develop
a Global Partnership for Development
| Goal
1: |
Eradicate
extreme poverty and hunger |
| Target 1: |
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion
of people whose income is less than one dollar a day |
| indicator
1: |
Proportion
of population below $1 per day (PPP values) |
| indicator 2: |
Poverty gap ratio [incidence
x depth of poverty |
| indicator 3 : |
Share of poorest quintile
in national consumption |
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| Target
2: |
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion
of people who suffer from hunger |
| indicator
4: |
Prevalence
of underweight children under five years of age |
| indicator 5: |
Proportion of population
below minimum level of dietary energy consumption |
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| Goal
2: |
Achieve
universal primary education |
| Target 3: |
Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere,
boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course
of primary schooling |
| indicator
6: |
Net enrolment
ratio in primary education |
| indicator 7: |
Proportion of pupils
starting grade 1 who reach grade 5 |
| indicator 8 : |
Literacy rate of 15-24
year olds |
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| Goal
3: |
Promote
gender equality and empower women |
| Target 4: |
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and
secondary education, preferably by 2005, and to all levels
of education no later than 2015 |
| indicator
9: |
Ratios of
girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education
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| indicator 10: |
Ratio of literate females
to males 15-24 years old |
| indicator 11 : |
Share of women in wage
employment in the non-agricultural sector |
| indicator 12 : |
Proportion of seats
held by women in national parliament |
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| Goal
4: |
Reduce
child mortality |
| Target 5: |
Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and
2015, the under-five mortality rate |
| indicator
13: |
Under-five
mortality rate |
| indicator 14: |
Infant mortality rate |
| indicator 15 : |
Proportion of 1-year-old
children immunised against measles |
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| Goal
5: |
Improve
maternal health |
| Target 6: |
Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990
and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio |
| indicator
16: |
Maternal
mortality ratio |
| indicator 17: |
Proportion of births
attended by skilled health personnel |
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| Goal
6: |
Combat
HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases |
| Target 7: |
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse
the spread of HIV/AIDS |
| indicator
18: |
HIV prevalence
among 15-24-year-old pregnant women |
| indicator 19: |
Condom use rate of the
contraceptive prevalence rate |
| indicator 20: |
Number of children orphaned
by HIV/AIDS |
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| Target 8: |
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse
the incidence of malaria and other major diseases |
| indicator
21: |
Prevalence
and death rates associated with malaria |
| indicator 22: |
Proportion of population
in malaria risk areas using effective malaria prevention
and treatment measures |
| indicator 23: |
Prevalence and death
rates associated with tuberculosis |
| indicator 24: |
Proportion of tuberculosis
cases detected and cured under DOTS (Directly Observed
Treatment Short Course) |
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| Goal
7: |
Ensure
environmental sustainability |
| Target 9: |
Integrate the principles of sustainable
development into country policies and programmes and reverse
the loss of environmental resources |
| indicator
25: |
Proportion
of land area covered by forest |
| indicator 26: |
Ratio of area protected
to maintain biological diversity to surface area |
| indicator 27: |
Energy use (metric ton
oil equivalent) per $1 GDP (PPP) |
| indicator 28: |
Carbon dioxide emissions
(per capita) and consumption of ozone- |
| indicator 29: |
Proportion of population
using solid fuels |
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| Target
10: |
Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people
without sustainable access to safe drinking water |
| indicator
30: |
Proportion
of population with sustainable access to an improved
water source, urban and rural |
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| Target 11: |
By 2020, to have achieved a significant
improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
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| indicator
31: |
Proportion
of urban population with access to improved sanitation
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| indicator 32: |
Proportion of households
with access to secure tenure (owned or rented) |
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| Goal
8: |
Develop
a Global Partnership for Development |
| Target 12: |
Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable,
non-discriminatory trading and financial system [Includes
a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty
reduction – both nationally and internationally] |
| Target 13: |
Address the Special Needs of the Least
Developed Countries (LDC) [Includes: tariff and quota free
access for LDC exports; enhanced programme of debt relief
for HIPC and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and
more generous ODA (Overseas Development Assistance) for countries
committed to poverty reduction] |
| indicator
33: |
Net ODA,
total and to LDCs, as percentage of OECD/DAC donors’
GNI |
| indicator 34: |
Proportion of total
bilateral, sector-allocable ODA of OECD/DAC donors to
basic social services (basic education, primary health
care, nutrition, safe water and sanitation) |
| indicator 35: |
Proportion of bilateral
ODA of OECD/DAC donors that is untied |
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| Target 14: |
Address the Special Needs of landlocked
countries and small island developing States (through the
Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small
Island Developing States and the outcome of the 22nd special
session of the General Assembly) |
| indicator
36: |
ODA received
in landlocked countries as proportion of their GNIs
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| indicator 37: |
ODA received in small
island developing States as proportion of their GNIs |
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| Target 15: |
Deal comprehensively with the debt problems
of developing countries through national and international
measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
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| indicator
38: |
Proportion
of total developed country imports (by value and excluding
arms) from developing countries and from LDCs, admitted
free of duties |
| indicator 39: |
Average tariffs imposed
by developed countries on agricultural products and
textiles and clothing from developing countries |
| indicator 40: |
Agricultural support
estimate for OECD countries as percentage of their GDP
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| indicator 41: |
Proportion of ODA provided
to help build trade capacity |
| indicator 42: |
Total number of countries
that have reached their HIPC decision points and number
that have reached their HIPC completion points (cumulative)
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| indicator 43: |
Debt relief committed
under HIPC initiative, US$ |
| indicator 44: |
Debt service as a percentage
of exports of goods and services |
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| Target 16: |
In co-operation with developing countries,
develop and implement strategies for decent and productive
work for youth |
| indicator
45: |
Unemployment
rate of 15-to-24-year-olds, each sex and total |
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| Target 17: |
In co-operation with pharmaceutical companies,
provide access to affordable, essential drugs in developing
countries |
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I was sick and you visited Me: I was in prison
and you came to Me
Matthew 25:35-36
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