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Goal 1
Eradicate Extreme
Poverty

Goal 2
Universal Primary
Education

Goal 3
Gender Equality
Empower Women

Goal 4
Reduce Child
Mortality
Goal 6
Combat HIV/AIDS
& Other Diseases
Goal 8
Global
Partnership


TARGETS & INDICATORS

Goal 1 -- Eradicate Extreme Poverty
Goal 2 -- Universal Primary Education
Goal 3 -- Gender Equality
Goal 4 -- Reduce Child Mortality
Goal 5 -- Improve Maternal Health
Goal 6 -- Combat HIV/AIDS
Goal 7 -- Environmental Sustainability
Goal 8 -- Global Partnership

 

To measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, a framework of 18 targets and 48 indicators was set up by a consensus of experts from the United Nations Secretariat, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank. The following is a detailed list of the targets and indicators supported by research material for each of the Goals:

  Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Target 1 - Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportions of people whose income is less than $1 a day.

Indicator 1: Proportion of population below $1 (PPP) per day

Indicator 2: Poverty gap ratio

Indicator 3: Share of poorest quintile in national consumption

Target 2 - Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportions of people who suffer from hunger.

Indicator 4: Prevalence of underweight Children under five years of age

Indicator 5: Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption


For research material on Goal 1, please click here .

 


 

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.

Indicator 6: Net enrolment ratio in primary education

Indicator 7: Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach grade 5

Indicator 8: Literacy rate of 15-24 years-olds


For research material on Goal 2, please click here .

 


  Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

Target 4 - Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferable by 2005 and in all levels of education no later than 2015.

Indicator 9: Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education

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

Indicator 11: Share of Women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector

Indicator 12: Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament


For research material on Goal 3, please click here .

 


  Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

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

Indicator 13: Under-five mortality rate

Indicator 14: Infant mortality rate

Indicator 15: Proportion of 1 year-old children immunized against measles


For research material on Goal 4, please click here .

 


  Goal 5: Improve maternal health

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

Indicator 16: Maternal mortality ratio

Indicator 17: Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel


For research material on Goal 5, please click here .

 


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

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

Indicator 18: HIV prevalence among pregnant women aged 15-24 years

Indicator 19: Condom use rate of the contraceptive

19a - Condom use at last high-risk sex

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

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

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

Indicator 21: Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria

Indicator 22: Proportion of population in malaria-risk areas using effective malaria prevention and treatment measures

Indicator 23: Prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis

Indicator 24: Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under DOTS

For research material on Goal 6, please click here .

 


  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.

Indicator 25: Proportion of land area covered by forest

Indicator 26: Ratio of area protected to maintain biological diversity to surface area

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

Indicator 28: Carbon dioxide emissions per capita and consumption of ozone depleting CFCs

Indicator 29: Proportion of population using solid fuels

Target 10 - Halve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water.

Indicator 30: Proportion of population with sustainable access to an Improved water source, urban and rural

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

Target 11 - Have achieved by 2020 a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.

Indicator 32: Proportion of households with access to secure tenure


For research material on Goal 7, please click here .

 


  Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

Target 12 - Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system. This 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, which includes tariff- and quota- free access for exports, enhanced programme of debt relief for and cancellation of official bilateral debt, and more generous official development assistance (ODA) for countries committed to poverty reduction.

Target 14 - Address the special needs of land-locked countries and small island developing states through the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and 22nd General Assembly provisions.

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.

Official Development Assistance

Indicator 33: Net ODA, total and to LDCs, as percentage of OECD/Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors' gross national income

Indicator 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)

Indicator 35: Proportion of bilateral ODA of OECD/DAC donors that is untied

Indicator 36: ODA received in landlocked developing countries as a proportion of their GNIs

Indicator 37: ODA received in small island developing states as proportion of their GNIs

Market Access

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

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

Indicator 40: Agricultural support estimate for OECD countries as percentage of their GDP

Indicator 41: Proportion of ODA provided to help build trade capacity

Debt Sustainability

Indicator 42: Total number of countries that have reached their Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiatives (HIPC) decision points and number that have reached their HIPC completion points (cumulative)

Indicator 43: Debt relief committed under HIPC initiative

Indicator 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.

Indicator 45: Unemployment rate of young people aged 15-24 years, each sex and total

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

Indicator 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 technologies.

Indicator 47: Telephone lines and cellular subscribers per 100 population

Indicator 48: Personal computers in use per 100 population and internet users per 100 population


For research material on Goal 8, please click here .


 

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