Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Goals and Targets

(from the Millennium Declaration)

         Indicators for monitoring progress

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

1.     Proportion of population below $1 (PPP) per day[a]

2.     Poverty gap ratio [incidence x depth of poverty]

3.     Share of poorest quintile in national consumption

Target 2: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of

people who suffer from hunger

4.     Prevalence of underweight children under-five years of age

5.     Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption

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

6.     Net enrollment ratio in primary education

7.     Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach grade 5^[b]

8.     Literacy rate of 15-24 year-olds

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

9.     Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education

10.   Ratio of literate women to men, 15-24 years old

11.   Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector

12.   Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

Target 5: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

13.   Under-five mortality rate

14.   Infant mortality rate

15.   Proportion of 1 year-old children immunised against measles

Goal 5: Improve maternal health

Target 6: Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio

16.   Maternal mortality ratio

17.   Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Target 7: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

18.   HIV prevalence among pregnant women aged 15-24 years

19.   Condom use rate of the contraceptive prevalence rate[c]

        19a. Condom use at last high-risk sex

        19b. Percentage of population aged 15-24 years with comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS[d]

        19c. Contraceptive prevalence rate

20.   Ratio of school attendance of orphans to school attendance of non-orphans aged 10-14 years

Target 8: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

21.   Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria

22.   Proportion of population in malaria-risk areas using effective malaria prevention and treatment measures[e]

23.   Prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis

24.   Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under directly observed treatment  short course DOTS (Internationally recommended TB control strategy)

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

25.   Proportion of land area covered by forest

26.   Ratio of area protected to maintain biological diversity to surface area

27.   Energy use (kg oil equivalent) per $1 GDP (PPP)

28.   Carbon dioxide emissions per capita and consumption of ozone-depleting CFCs (ODP tons)

29.   Proportion of population using solid fuels

Target 10: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation

30.   Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water source, urban and rural

31.   Proportion of population with access to improved sanitation, urban and rural

Target 11: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

32.   Proportion of households with access to secure tenure

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 the 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 and small island developing States.

Official development assistance (ODA)

33.   Net ODA, total and to the least developed countries, as percentage of OECD/DAC donors’ gross national income

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)

35.   Proportion of bilateral official development assistance of OECD/DAC donors that is untied

36.   ODA received in landlocked developing countries as a proportion of their gross national incomes

37.   ODA received in small island developing States as a proportion of their gross national incomes

Market access

38.   Proportion of total developed country imports (by value and excluding arms) from developing countries and least developed countries, admitted free of duty

39.   Average tariffs imposed by developed countries on agricultural products and textiles and clothing from developing countries

40.   Agricultural support estimate for OECD countries as a percentage of their gross domestic product

41.   Proportion of ODA provided to help build trade capacity

Debt sustainability

42.   Total number of countries that have reached their HIPC decision points and number that have reached their HIPC completion points (cumulative)

43.   Debt relief committed under HIPC Initiative

44.   Debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and services

Target 16: In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth

45.   Unemployment rate of young people aged 15-24 years, each sex and total[f]

Target 17: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries

46.   Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable basis

Target 18: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications

47.   Telephone lines and cellular subscribers per 100 population

48.   Personal computers in use per 100 population

        Internet users per 100 population