Table 1 The Millennium Development Goals and Targets.
| Goal | Target | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger | Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than US$1 a day |
| Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger | ||
| 2 | Achieve universal primary education | Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling |
| 3 | Promote gender equality and empower | Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later |
| women | than 2015 | |
| 4 | Reduce child mortality | Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under‐five mortality rate |
| 5 | Improve maternal health | Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio |
| 6 | Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and | Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS |
| other diseases | Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases | |
| 7 | Ensure environmental sustainability | Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources |
| Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation | ||
| By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers | ||
| 8 | Develop a global partnership for | Develop further an open, rule‐based, predictable, non‐discriminatory trading and financial system |
| development | Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction, both nationally and internationally | |
| 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 and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous overseas development aid for countries committed to poverty reduction | ||
| 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 22nd special session of the General Assembly) | ||
| Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term | ||
| In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth | ||
| In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries | ||
| In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications |
For further information see http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mi/mi_goals.asp.