Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
The MDGs tables present the progress of developing member countries in achieving the MDGs, which are a set of time-bound and measurable targets for combating problems that includes poverty, hunger, disease, environmental degradation and discrimination against women. The tables form part of the Key Indicators’ series. More updated version of the tables can be downloaded from SDBS.
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Introduction to the Millennium Development Goals
Goal 1. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
Read the commentary for Goal 1
- Table 1.1 Target 1.A: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day [ XLS: 143 kb ]
- Table 1.2 Target 1.B: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people [ XLS: 52 kb ]
- Table 1.3 Target 1.C: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger [ XLS: 99 kb ]
Goal 2. Achieve Universal Primary Education
Read the commentary for Goal 2
- Table 2.1 Target 2.A: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling [ XLS: 70 kb ]
Goal 3. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Read the commentary for Goal 3
- Table 3.1 Target 3.A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education not later than 2015 [ XLS: 65 kb ]
Goal 4. Reduce Child Mortality
Read the commentary for Goal 4
- Table 4.1 Target 4.A: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate [ XLS: 48 kb ]
Goal 5. Improve Maternal Health
Read the commentary for Goal 5
- Table 5.1 Target 5.A: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio [ XLS: 45 kb ]
- Table 5.2 Target 5.B: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health [ XLS: 38 kb ]
Goal 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
Read the commentary for Goal 6
- Table 6.1 Target 6.A: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS [ XLS: 44 kb ]
- Table 6.2 Target 6.B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it [ XLS: 35 kb ]
- Table 6.3 Target 6.C: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases [ XLS: 116 kb ]
Goal 7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Read the commentary for Goal 7
- Table 7.1 Target 7.A: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources [ XLS: 116 kb ]
- Table 7.2 Target 7.B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss [ XLS: 31 kb ]
- Table 7.3 Target 7.C: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation [ XLS: 107 kb ]
- Table 7.4 Target 7.D: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers [ XLS: 35 kb ]
Goal 8. Develop a Global Partnership for Development
Read the commentary for Goal 8
- Table 8.1 Target 8.D: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term [ XLS: 67 kb ]
- Table 8.2 Target 8.F: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications [ XLS: 65 kb ]
For general information, please visit our Millennium Development Goals webpage.
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