THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
 

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
•    Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day
•    Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

In our world today:
•    1.2 billion people live on less than $1 per day.
•    800 million people go to bed hungry every day.
•    28,000 children die from poverty-related causes everyday.
 

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
•    Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling

In our world today:
•    115 million school-aged children are not in school-56 percent of them girls and 94 percent of them in developing countries.
•    133 million young people cannot read or write.
•    Only 37 of 155 developing countries have achieved universal primary school completion.
 

Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
•    Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

In our world today:
•    Two-thirds of the world's illiterate people are female.
•    The employment rate for women is two-thirds that for men.
•    Women only held 15% of seats in national parliaments in 2003.
•  Women represent half of the 40 million people infected with HIV worldwide, and due to their vulnerability in many societies in Africa, this number is growing.
 
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
•    Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five
In our world today:
•  Over 11 million children under the age of five die each year, most from preventable diseases.
 
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
•    Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
In our world today:
•   Some 14,000 women and girls die each day from causes related to childbirth, 99 percent in the developing world
•  More than 50 million women suffer from poor reproductive health and serious pregnancy-related illness and disability
•  More than 500,000 women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth every year.
 
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
•    Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
•    Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
In our world today:
•    About 8,000 people died every single day as a result of AIDS in 2003
•    An estimated 4.8 million people became newly infected with HIV in 2003-that's more than 13,000 every day
•    Approximately 15 million children around the world have lost one or both parents to AIDS
•    An estimated 860,000 children in sub-Saharan Africa lost teachers to AIDS in 1999 alone
•  Approximately 40% of the world's population-mostly those living in the world's poorest countries-is at risk of contracting malaria
•  Malaria causes more than 300 million acute illnesses and at least one million deaths annually
•    An estimated two million deaths resulted from tuberculosis in 2002
•    Someone in the world is newly infected with tuberculosis bacilli every second
 
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
• Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources
•   Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
•    Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020.
In our world today:
•   Forests are disappearing at unprecedented rates globally, displacing indigenous peoples from their native homes and uprooting their livelihoods.
•  The collapse of fisheries around the world threatens to exacerbate hunger and poverty among poor coastal communities throughout the developing world.
•  Over 2.4 billion people lack access to proper sanitation facilities and one billion lack access to drinkable water.
• Some two million children die every year--6,000 a day--from preventable infections spread by dirty water or improper sanitation facilities.

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Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
•    Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally
•   Address the least developed countries’ special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction
•    Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States
•  Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term
•  In cooperation with the developing countries, develop 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