Table 1.
Global goals and summary data
| MDG targets for 2015 MDG 5 – Improve maternal health; MDG 4 – Reduce child mortality | Percentage gains per target during the MDG era (from 1990 to 2015) 2015 data in bold | SDG targets for 2030 SDG 3 – Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages |
|---|---|---|
| Maternal mortality | ||
| MDG Target 5.A: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) | 5.1 MMR reduced by* World: 44% (from 385 to 216 deaths per 100,000 live births) Developing regions: 44% (from 430 to 239) Developed regions: 48% (from 23 to 12) 5.2 Proportion increased by† |
SDG Target 3.1: By 2030, reduce the global MMR to less than 70 per 100,000 live births |
| Indicators: | World: 28% (from 59% to 75.4%) | Indicators: |
| 5.1 MMR per 100,000 live births; | Developing regions: 28% (from 57% to 73.1%) | 3.1.1 MMR; |
| 5.2 Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel (%) | Developed regions: 1990 data not found. 98.7% in 2015 | 3.1.2 Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel |
| Child mortality | ||
| MDG Target 4.A: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the
under-five mortality rate (U5MR) Indicators: |
4.1 U5MR reduced by‡ World: 53.3% (from 91 to 43 per 1000 live births) Developing regions: 54% (from 100 to 47) Developed regions: 60% (from 15 to 6) 4.2 IMR reduced by‡ |
SDG Target 3.2.1:§ By 2030, end preventable deaths of children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1000 live births |
| 4.1 U5MR per 1000 live births; | World: 49.2% (from 63 to 32 per 1000 live births) | |
| 4.2 Infant mortality rate (IMR) per 1000 live births | Developing regions: 49.3% (from 69 to 35) Developed regions: 58.3% (from 12 to 5) |
Indicator: 3.2.1 U5MR |
| Neonatal mortality | ||
| No MDG target or other global target was set for neonatal mortality
for 2015 Indicator: |
4.1 U5MR reduced by‡ World: 47% (from 36 to 19 per 1000 live births) Developing regions: 48% (from 40 to 21) |
SDG Target 3.2.2:§ By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1000 live births |
| Neonatal mortality rate (NMR) per 1000 live births | Developed regions: 63% (from 8 to 3) |
Indicator: 3.2.2 NMR See also Box 4 |
| Stillbirths | ||
| No MDG target or other global target was set for stillbirths for 2015 | SBR reduced from 2000k to 2015 by¶ World: 25.5% (from 24.7 to 18.4) |
No SDG target was set for stillbirths, but targets were set by the Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP; see Box 4] |
| Indicator: | Developed regions: 24.4% (from 4.5 to 3.4) | Indicator: SBR |
| Stillbirth rate (SBR) per 1000 total births | Sub-Saharan Africa (highest of all regions): 19.4% (from 35.6 to 28.7) | |
As explained in the MDG report ‘Since there is no established convention for the designation of “developed” and “developing” countries or areas in the United Nations system, this distinction is made for the purposes of statistical analysis only’.
Data from Trends in maternal mortality, WHO 2015 [20].
1990 data from The Millennium Development Goals report 2015 [26]; 2015 data from Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals: Report of the Secretary-General, Statistical annex: global and regional data for Sustainable Development Goal indicators (https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/files/report/2016/secretary-general-sdg-report-2016–Statistical-Annex.pdf).
Data from Levels and trends in child mortality: report 2015, UNIGME 2015 [27].
Target 3.2 has been split in two (3.2.1 and 3.2.2) to separate out the targets for children (under 5 years old) and newborns (as was also done in the Indicator and monitoring framework for the GSWCAH).
Data from Blencowe et al. 2016 [12] by MDG region.