Millennium Development Goals Achievements

Box: Millennium Development Goals

Goal 1: Halve extreme poverty and hunger

• Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day.

• Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people.

• Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education

• 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 quality and empower women

• Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and to all levels of education no later than 2015.

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

• Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.

Goal 5: Improve maternal health

• Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio.

• Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health.

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

• Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.

• Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

• Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources.

• Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss.

• Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation.

• 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

• Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system.

• Address the special needs of the Least Developed Countries, landlocked countries and small island developing states.

• Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt.

• In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth.

• In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable, essential drugs in developing countries.

• In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications technologies.