TABLE 3.

Gross domestic product growth not sufficient to reach millennium development goals

Region	Slum growth rate2	Average GDP per capita 2000–2015 (percent increase per year)	Percent population living on less than one US$/day32
			Target percent	Projection to 2015 by growth alone percent
East Asia	2.28	5.4	14	1
Europe and C. Asia	NA	3.6	1	1
Latin America and Caribbean	1.28	1.8	8	8
Middle East and North Africa	−0.15	1.4	1	1
South Asia	2.20	3.8	22	15
Africa	4.53	1.2	24	35

Adapted from World Bank.³²

NA = not available