Millennium Development Goals, Targets and Indicators (MDGS)

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Goals and Targets (from the Millennium Declaration)
Indicators for monitoring progress
Goal 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015,
the proportion of people whose
income is less than one dollar a
day
1. Proportion of population below $1 (PPP)
per day
2. Poverty gap ratio [incidence x depth of
poverty]
3. Share of poorest quintile in national
consumption
Target 2: Halve, between 1990 and 2015,
the proportion of people who suf-
fer from hunger
4. Prevalence of underweight children
under-five years of age
5. Proportion of population below minimum
level of dietary energy consumption
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
6. Net enrolment ratio in primary education
7. Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who
reach grade 5
8. Literacy rate of 15-24 year-olds
Goal 3. Promote gender equality and empower women
Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in
primary and secondary educa-
tion, preferably by 2005, and in
all levels of education no later
than 2015
9. Ratios of girls to boys in primary,
secondary and tertiary education
10. Ratio of literate women to men,
15-24 years old
11. Share of women in wage employment
in the non-agricultural sector
12. Proportion of seats held by women in
national parliament
Goal 4. Reduce child mortality
Target 5: Reduce by two-thirds, between
1990 and 2015, the under-five
mortality rate
13. Under-five mortality rate
14. Infant mortality rate
15. Proportion of 1 year-old children
immunised against measles
Goal 5. Improve maternal health
Target 6: Reduce by three-quarters,
between 1990 and 2015, the
maternal mortality ratio
16. Maternal mortality ratio
17. Proportion of births attended by skilled
health personnel

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Goals and Targets (from the Millennium Declaration)
Indicators for monitoring progress
Goal 6. Combat hiv/aids, malaria and other diseases
Target 7: Have halted by 2015 and begun
to reverse the spread of HIV/ AIDS
18. HIV prevalence among pregnant
women aged 15-24 years
19. Condom use rate of the contraceptive
prevalence rate
19a. Condom use at last high-risk sex
19b. Percentage of population aged
15-24 years with comprehensive
correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS
19c. Contraceptive prevalence rate
20. Ratio of school attendance of
orphans to school attendance of non-
orphans aged 10-14 years
Target 8: Have halted by 2015 and begun
to reverse the incidence of malaria
and other major diseases
21. Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria
22. Proportion of population in malariarisk areas using effective malaria prevention and treatment measures
23. Prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis
24. Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected
and cured under directly observed treatment short course DOTS (Internationally
recommended TB control strategy)
Goal 7. Ensure environmental sustainability
Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into
country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of
environmental resources
25. Proportion of land area covered by forest
26. Ratio of area protected to maintain
biological diversity to surface area
27. Energy use (kg oil equivalent) per
$1 GDP (PPP)
28. Carbon dioxide emissions per capita
and consumption of ozone depleting
CFCs (ODP tons)
29. Proportion of population using solid fuels
Target 10: Halve, by 2015, the proportion
of people without sustainable
access to safe drinking water
and basic sanitation
30. Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water
source, urban and rural
31. Proportion of population with access
to improved sanitation, urban and
rural
Target 11: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of
at least 100 million slum dwellers
32. Proportion of households with access
to secure tenure

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Goals and Targets (from the Millennium Declaration)
Indicators for monitoring progress
Goal 8. Develop a global partnership for development
Target 12: Develop further an open, rulebased, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial
system
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 the least developed countries?
exports; enhanced programme of
debt relief for heavily indebted poor
countries (HIPC) and cancellation of
official bilateral debt; and more
generous ODA for countries
committed to poverty reduction.
Target 14: Address the special needs of land-locked developing countries and
small island developing States
(through the Programme of Action
for the Sustainable Development of
Small Island Developing States and
the outcome of the twenty-second
special session of the General
Assembly).
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
Some of the indicators listed below are
monitored separately for the least developed
countries (LDCs), Africa, landlocked
developing countries and small island
developing States
Official development assistance (ODA)
33. ANet ODA, total and to the least developed countries, as percentage of OECD/
DAC donors? gross national income
34. Proportion of total bilateral, sector-allocable ODA of OECD/DAC donors to
basic social services (basic education, primary health care, nutrition,
safe water and sanitation)
35. Proportion of bilateral official development assistance of OECD/DAC
donors that is untied
36. ODA received in landlocked developing countries as a proportion of their
gross national incomes
37. ODA received in small island developing States as a proportion of their
gross national incomes
Market access
38. Proportion of total developed country
imports (by value and excluding arms)
from developing countries and least developed countries, admitted free of duty
39. Average tariffs imposed by developed
countries on agricultural products and
textiles and clothing from developing
countries
40. Agricultural support estimate for OECD
countries as a percentage of their gross
domestic product
41. Proportion of ODA provided to help
build trade capacity
Debt sustainability
42. Total number of countries that have
reached their HIPC decision points and
number that have reached their HIPC
completion points (cumulative)
43. Debt relief committed under HIPC
Initiative
44. Debt service as a percentage of exports
of goods and services

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Goals and Targets (from the Millennium Declaration)
Indicators for monitoring progress
Target 16: In cooperation with developing
countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and
productive work for youth
45. Unemployment rate of young people
aged 15-24 years, each sex and total
Target 17: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access
to affordable essential drugs in
developing countries
46. Proportion of population with access
to affordable essential drugs on a
sustainable basis
Target 18: In cooperation with the private
sector, make available the benefits
of new technologies, especially
information and communications
47. Telephone lines and cellular subscribers per 100 population
48. Personal computers in use per 100
population Internet users per 100
population

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