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Summary: Detail of 8 goals, 18 targets and 48
indicators to measure progress towards the
Millennium Development goals.
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
Indicators
1. Proportion of population below $1 (1993 PPP) per day (World Bank)a
2. Poverty gap ratio [incidence x depth of poverty] (World Bank)
3. Share of poorest quintile in national consumption (World Bank)
Target 2: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who
suffer from hunger
Indicators
4. Prevalence of underweight children under five years of age (UNICEF-
WHO)
5. Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy
consumption (FAO)
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
Indicators
6. Net enrolment ratio in primary education (UNESCO)
7. Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach grade 5 (UNESCO)b
8. Literacy rate of 15-24 year-olds (UNESCO)
Goal 3 - Promote gender equality and empower women
Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education,
preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015
Indicators
9. Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education
(UNESCO)
10. Ratio of literate women to men, 15-24 years old (UNESCO)
11. Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector
(ILO)
12. Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament (IPU)
Goal 4 - Reduce child mortality
Target 5: Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five
mortality rate
Indicators
13. Under-five mortality rate (UNICEF-WHO)
14. Infant mortality rate (UNICEF-WHO)
15. Proportion of 1 year-old children immunized against measles (UNICEF-
WHO)
Goal 5 - Improve maternal health
Target 6: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal
mortality ratio
Indicators
16. Maternal mortality ratio (UNICEF-WHO)
17. Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel (UNICEF-
WHO)
Goal 6 - Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Target 7: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of
HIV/AIDS
Indicators
18. HIV prevalence among pregnant women aged 15-24 years (UNAIDS-
WHO-UNICEF)
19. Condom use rate of the contraceptive prevalence rate (UN Population
Division)c
19a. Condom use at last high-risk sex (UNICEF-WHO)
19b. Percentage of population aged 15-24 years with comprehensive
correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS (UNICEF-WHO)d
19c. Contraceptive prevalence rate (UN Population Division)
20. Ratio of school attendance of orphans to school attendance of non-
orphans aged 10-14 years (UNICEF-UNAIDS-WHO)
Target 8: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of
malaria and other major diseases
Indicators
21. Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria (WHO)
22. Proportion of population in malaria-risk areas using effective malaria
prevention and treatment measures (UNICEF-WHO)e
23. Prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis (WHO)
24. Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under DOTS
(internationally recommended TB control strategy) (WHO)
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
Indicators
25. Proportion of land area covered by forest (FAO)
26. Ratio of area protected to maintain biological diversity to surface area
(UNEP-WCMC)
27. Energy use (kg oil equivalent) per $1 GDP (PPP) (IEA, World Bank)
28. Carbon dioxide emissions per capita (UNFCCC, UNSD) and consumption
of ozone-depleting CFCs (ODP tons) (UNEP-Ozone Secretariat)
29. Proportion of population using solid fuels (WHO)
Target 10: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable
access to safe drinking water and sanitation
Indicators
30. Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water
source, urban and rural (UNICEF-WHO)
31. Proportion of population with access to improved sanitation, urban and
rural (UNICEF-WHO)
Target 11: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives
of at least 100 million slum dwellers
Indicators
32. Proportion of households with access to secure tenure (UN-HABITAT)
Goal 8 - Develop a global partnership for development
Target 12: Develop further an open, rule-based, 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 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 landlocked 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
(LLDCs) and small island developing States (SIDS)
Indicators
Official development assistance (ODA)
33. Net ODA, total and to LDCs, as percentage of OECD/Development
Assistance Committee (DAC) donors' gross national income (GNI)(OECD)
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) (OECD)
35. Proportion of bilateral ODA of OECD/DAC donors that is untied (OECD)
36. ODA received in landlocked developing countries as a proportion of
their GNIs (OECD)
37. ODA received in small island developing States as proportion of their
GNIs (OECD)
Market access
38. Proportion of total developed country imports (by value and excluding
arms) from developing countries and from LDCs, admitted free of duty
(UNCTAD, WTO, WB)
39. Average tariffs imposed by developed countries on agricultural
products and textiles and clothing from developing countries (UNCTAD,
WTO, WB)
40. Agricultural support estimate for OECD countries as percentage of their
GDP (OECD)
41. Proportion of ODA provided to help build trade capacity (OECD, WTO)
Debt sustainability
42. Total number of countries that have reached their Heavily Indebted
Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC) decision points and number that have
reached their HIPC completion points (cumulative) (IMF - World Bank)
43. Debt relief committed under HIPC initiative (IMF-World Bank)
44. Debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and services (IMF-
World Bank)
Target 16: In cooperation with developing countries, develop and
implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth
Indicators
45. Unemployment rate of young people aged 15-24 years, each sex and
total (ILO)f
Target 17: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access
to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
Indicators
46. Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a
sustainable basis (WHO)
Target 18: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the
benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
Indicators
47. Telephone lines and cellular subscribers per 100 population (ITU)
48. Personal computers in use per 100 population and Internet users per
100 population (ITU)
Source:
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