| Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) |
Goals
and Targets
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Indicators
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Goal
1: Eradicate extreme
poverty and hunger
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Target
1:
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income
is less than one dollar a day
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Proportion
of population below $1 per day
Poverty
gap ratio [incidence x depth of
poverty]
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
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Prevalence
of underweight children (under-five years of age)
Proportion
of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption
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Goal
2: Achieve universal
primary education
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Target
3:
Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike,
will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
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Net
enrolment ratio in primary education
Proportion
of pupils starting grade 1 who reach grade 5
Literacy
rate of 15-24 year olds
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Goal
3: Promote gender
equality and empower women
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Target
4:
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education
preferably by 2005 and to all levels of education no later than 2015
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Ratio of
girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education
Ratio of
literate females to males of 15-24 year olds
Share of
women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector
Proportion
of seats held by women in national parliament
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Goal
4: Reduce child mortality
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Target
5:
Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015,
the under-five mortality rate
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Under-five
mortality rate
Infant
mortality rate
Proportion
of 1 year old children immunised against measles
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Goal
5: Improve maternal
health
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Target
6:
Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal
mortality ratio
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Maternal
mortality ratio
Proportion
of births attended by skilled health personnel
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Goal
6: Combat HIV/AIDS,
malaria and other diseases
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Target
7:
Have halted by 2015, and begun to reverse, the spread of HIV/AIDS
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HIV
prevalence among 15-24 year old pregnant women
Contraceptive
prevalence rate
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
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Prevalence
and death rates associated with malaria
Proportion
of population in malaria risk areas using effective malaria prevention and
treatment measures
Prevalence
and death rates associated with tuberculosis
Proportion
of TB cases detected and cured under DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment
Short Course)
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Goal
7: Ensure environmental
sustainability
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Target
9:
Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country
policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
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Proportion
of land area covered by forest
Land area
protected to maintain biological diversity
GDP per
unit of energy use (as proxy for energy efficiency)
Carbon
dioxide emissions (per capita)
[Plus two figures of global atmospheric pollution: ozone depletion and
the accumulation of global warming gases]
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Target
10:
Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access
to safe drinking water
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Proportion
of population with sustainable access to an improved water source
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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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Proportion
of people with access to improved sanitation
Proportion
of people with access to secure tenure
[Urban/rural
disaggregation of several of the above indicators may be relevant for
monitoring improvement in the lives of slum dwellers]
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Goal
8: Develop a Global
Partnership for Development*
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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
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 for countries committed to poverty reduction
Target
14: Address
the Special Needs of landlocked countries and small island developing
states
(through Barbados Programme and 22nd General Assembly provisions)
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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Some of the indicators
listed below will be monitored separately for the Least Developed
Countries (LDCs), Africa, landlocked countries and small island developing
states.
Official Development
Assistance
Net ODA as
percentage of DAC donors’ GNI [targets of 0.7% in total and 0.15% for
LDCs]
Proportion
of ODA to basic social services (basic education, primary health care,
nutrition, safe water and sanitation)
Proportion
of ODA that is untied
Proportion
of ODA for environment in small island developing states
Proportion
of ODA for transport sector in land-locked countries
Market Access
Proportion
of exports (by value and excluding arms) admitted free of duties and
quotas
Average
tariffs and quotas on agricultural products and textiles and clothing
Domestic
and export agricultural subsidies in OECD countries
Proportion
of ODA provided to help build trade capacity
Debt Sustainability
Proportion
of official bilateral HIPC debt cancelled
Debt
service as a percentage of exports of goods and services
Proportion
of ODA provided as debt relief
Number of
countries reaching HIPC decision and completion points
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Target
16: In
cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies
for decent and productive work for youth
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Unemployment
rate of 15-24 year olds
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Target
17: In
cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable,
essential drugs in developing countries
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Proportion
of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable
basis
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Target
18: In
cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new
technologies, especially information and communications
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Telephone
lines per 1000 people
Personal
computers per 1000 people
Other Indicators TBD
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targets
