Millenium Goals

GOAL 1:
ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER
• Fact Sheet
• MDG Monitor for Goal 1
Target 1.A:
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day
• The global economic crisis has slowed progress, but the world is still on track to meet the poverty reduction target
• Prior to the crisis, the depth of poverty had diminished in almost every region
Target1.B:
Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people
• Deterioration of the labour market, triggered by the economic crisis, has resulted in a decline in employment
• As jobs were lost, more workers have been forced into vulnerable employment
• Since the economic crisis, more workers find themselves and their families living
in extremepoverty

Target 1.C:
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
• Hunger may have spiked in 2009, one of the many dire consequences of the global
food and financial crises
• Progress to end hunger has been stymied in most regions
• Despite some progress, one in four children in the developing world are still underweight
• Children in rural areas are nearlytwice as likely to be underweight as those in urban areasn
• In some regions, the prevalence of underweight children is dramatically higher among the poor
• Over 42 million people have been uprooted by conflict or persecution

GOAL 2:
ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION
• Fact Sheet
• MDG Monitor for Goal 2
Target 2.A:
Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will beable to complete a full course of primary schooling
• Hope dims for universal education by 2015, even as many poor countries make tremendous strides

• Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia are home to the vast majority of children out of school

• Inequality thwarts progress towards universal education

GOAL 3:
PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN
• Fact Sheet
• MDG Monitor forGoal 3
Target 3.A:
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015
• For girls in some regions, education remains elusive
• Poverty is a major barrier to education, especially among older girls

• In every developing region except the CIS, men outnumber women in paid employment

• Women are largely relegatedto more vulnerable forms of employment
• Women are over-represented in informal employment, with its lack of benefits and security
• Top-level jobs still go to men — to an overwhelming degree
• Women are slowly rising to political power, but mainly when boosted by quotas and other special measures

GOAL 4:
REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY
• Addendum
• Fact Sheet
• MDG Monitor for Goal 4
Target4.A:
Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
• Child deaths are falling, but not quickly enough to reach the target
• Revitalizing efforts against pneumonia and diarrhoea, while bolstering nutrition, could save millions of children
• Recent success in controlling measles may be short-lived if funding gaps are not bridged

GOAL 5:
IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH
•Addendum
• Fact Sheet
• MDG Monitor for Goal 5
Target 5.A:
Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
• Most maternal deaths could be avoided
• Giving birth is especially risky in Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, where most women deliver without skilled care
• The rural-urban gap in skilled care during childbirth has narrowed
Target 5.B:
Achieve universal access toreproductive health
• More women are receiving antenatal care
• Inequalities in care during pregnancy are striking
• Only one in three rural women in developing regions receive the recommended care during pregnancy
• Progress has stalled in reducing the number of teenage pregnancies, putting more young mothers at risk
• Poverty and lack of education perpetuate high adolescent birth rates
• Progress...