Table 1.

Summary of Millennium Goals and Chile’s Progress

Goal	Domain	Progress
Goal 1	Reduce extreme poverty	Chile is the only country in Latin American that has already achieved the target of halving extreme poverty. Between 1990 and 2006, Chile reduced poverty from 38.6% to 13.7% and extreme poverty from 12.9 percent to 3.2 per cent. (Nov. 2007, http://www.mdgmonitor.org/factsheets_00.cfm?c=CHL).
Goal 2	Achieve universal primary education	Net primary school enrollment ratio is >90% with a net primary school enrollment ratio of about 95.5% expected in 2015. The ratio was 88% in 1990. Youth literacy rate has always been high with 99.8% of total population 18 to24 expected to be able to read and write by 2015. Additional targets for Chile include reducing proportion of individuals in 15 to 65 age group <8 years schooling to 15% by 2015 (it was 31% in 1990 and 22% in 2000.
Goal 3	Promote gender equality and empower women	literacy rate for men and women is similar for 15 to 24 yr olds (about 99%). Proportion of women in wage employment in non-agricultural sector is expected to climb to 40% by 2015. Representation in parliament is expected to increase (6% in 1990 to 9.5% in 2000 to 40% by 2015). Secondary education completion rate for women is expected to be 91.3% in 2015. Wage gap was 31% in 2000 ($1,000 earned by men = $689 earned by women). Expected to be reduced to 25% by 2015.
Goal 4	Reduce child mortality	Mortality incidence in children aged 1–4 has dropped 50% in the 1990s ending up close to expected rate for 2015.
Goal 5	Improve maternal health	One of the lowest rates in Latin American. 1990 = 4.0 per 10,000 live births dropping to 1.7 per 10,000 live births in 2002. It is expected to drop to 1.0 in 2015.
Goal 6	Combat HIV/etc	Prevalence of HIV/AIDS in pregnant women has remained low and stable (5%). There is no malaria in Chile and mortality from TB has decreased constantly. And is in the process of being eliminated. Other goals have thus been set to reduce mortality from Cardiovascular disease and diabetes, depression prevalence, tobacco consumption, and the “drinking problem” in the 12+ population.
Goal 7	Ensure environmental sustainability	Good access to public sewer systems; seek to reduce average number of forest fires and increase land area reclaimed from desert encroachment; land area covered by forests is increasing due to plantings. Significant progress expected in terms of “slum dwellers” as a proportion of urban population (1990=12.47% of households expected to be 3.65% by 2015).
Goal 8	Develop global partnership	No data available for this.

Note: Information for this table is from the Millennium Development Goals: Executive Summary (2005) and the United Nations (2005b) The Millennium Development Report.