Millennium Development Goals

Updated from the Millennium Development Goals Report 2009

Goal 1 – Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
· Target – Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day
· Target – Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people
· Target – Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

Goal 2 – Achieve universal primary education
· Target – 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 – Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015

Goal 4 – Reduce child mortality
· Target – Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

Goal 5 – Improve maternal health
· Target – Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
· Target – Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health

Goal 6 – Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other disease
· Target – Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
· Target – Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
· Target – Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

Goal 7 – Ensure environmental sustainability
· Target – Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources
· Target – Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
· Target – Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
· Target – 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
· Target – Address the special needs of the least developed countries, landlocked countries and small island developing states
· Target – Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
· Target – Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt
· Target – In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications