MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Target 1: Halve between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day. Target 2: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. |
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. |
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2015 and in all levels of education no later than 2015. |
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality Target 5: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate. |
Goal 5: Improve maternal health Target 6: Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio. |
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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. Target 8: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases. |
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources. Target 10: Halve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. Target 11: Have achieved by 2020a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers. |
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development Target 12: Develop further an open, rule-based predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial systems (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 exports, enhanced program of debt relief for and cancellation of official bilateral debt, and more generous official development assistance for countries commited to poverty reduction). Target 14: Address the special needs of land-locked countries and small island developing states (through the program of Action for the Sustainable Developing States 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. Target 16: In cooperation with developing countries, developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth. Target 17: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries. Target 18: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications technologies. |
