Goal 1--- Eradicate extreme poverty & hunger
TARGET
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people
whose income is less than $1 a day
Goal 2-- Achieve universal primary education
TARGET
Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and
girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of
primary schooling
Goal 3--Promote gender equality and empower women
TARGET
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary
education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of
education no later than 2015
Goal 4 Reduce child mortality
TARGET
Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015,
the under-five mortality rate
Goal 5 Improve maternal health
TARGET
Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015,
the maternal mortality ratio
Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria & other diseases
TARGET
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the
spread of HIV/AIDS
Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability
TARGET
Integrate the principles of sustainable development
into country policies and programmes and reverse the
loss of environmental resources
TARGET
Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without
sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic
sanitation
TARGET
By 2020, to have achieved a significant
improvement in the lives of at least
100 million slum-dwellers
Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for development
TARGET
Address the special needs of the least developed
countries, landlocked countries and small island
developing States
TARGET
Develop further an open, rule-based,
predictable, non-discriminatory trading
and financial system
TARGET
Deal comprehensively with developing countries debt
TARGET
In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits
of new technologies, especially information and communications
TARGET
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies,
provide access to affordable essential drugs in
developing countries
TARGET
In cooperation with developing
countries, develop and implement
strategies for decent and productive
work for youth
A note to the reader
UNITED NATIONS
The Millennium Development Goals were
derived from the United Nations Millennium
Declaration, adopted by 189 nations in 2000. Most
of the goals and targets were set to be achieved by
the year 2015 on the basis of the global situation
during the 1990s. It was during that decade that a
number of global conferences had taken place and
the main objectives of the development agenda had
been defined. The baseline for the assessment of
progress is therefore 1990 for most of the MDG
targets. For most of the indicators, 2004 is the last
year for which comprehensive data are available.
Data to monitor progress towards the
Millennium Development Goals are compiled by
specialized agencies within their area of expertise.
They are drawn from national statistics provided
by Governments to the international statistical
system the United Nations Statistics Division and
the statistical offices of the various international
organizations and adjusted for comparability.
In some cases, national Governments may have
more recent statistics that have not been reported
to the international statistical system. In other
cases, countries do not produce the data required
for the compilation of indicators. When this occurs,
international statistical agencies make estimates
based on the data of neighbouring countries or of
countries with similar levels of income. Most of the
organizations and agencies of the United Nations
system, along with the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development and the Inter-
Parliamentary Union, contribute to this exercise.
Many of the indicators for example, on child
mortality and malnutrition, malaria prevention and
treatment, and knowledge of and behaviour related
to HIV/AIDS are derived from surveys sponsored
and carried out by international agencies. These
include, most importantly, the Multiple Indicator
Cluster Surveys and the Demographic and Health
Surveys, which help fill the frequent data gaps that
exist.
Country data derived from international surveys
and national sources or estimated by the responsible
agencies are aggregated into regional and global
figures. It is these aggregates that are used in this
report to provide an overall assessment of progress.
Since the periodic assessment of progress
towards the MDGs began five years ago, the
international statistical community has been
concerned about the lack of adequate data to
compile the required indicators in many parts of the
developing world. At the same time, the monitoring
requirements themselves have focused attention
on this shortcoming and raised awareness of the
urgency to launch initiatives for statistical capacitybuilding.
Though there have been many steps in
this direction, much remains to be done until all
countries are able to produce a continuous flow of
social and economic data needed to inform their
development policies and track progress.
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