In advance of the Millennium Summit convened in September 2000, the Secretary-General presented his report "We the peoples: The role of the United Nations in the twenty-first century" (A/54/2000) in which he identified challenges facing the international community and put forward an action plan for addressing them. The resulting eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by 189 of the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest. The statistics presented here measure progress toward meeting these goals and are the product of the work of the Inter-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) on MDG Indicators, coordinated by the UN Statistics Division.
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Millennium Development Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger - Target 1.A. : Shows the trend for Zambia in achieving the goal of halving, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day.
Millennium Development Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger - Target 1.B : Shows progress in Italy toward achieving full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people. The DataSheet shows the youth unemployment rate for both sexes.
Millennium Development Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger - Target 1.C: Shows dismal progress in the Sudan in meeting the goal of halving, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
Millennium Development Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education - Target 2.A : Shows a measure of the progress achieved in Djibouti in ensuring that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.
Millennium Development Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women - Target 3.A : Shows the trend in the gender parity index in primary and tertiary enrollment for Vietnam.
Millennium Development Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality - Target 4.A : Shows progress in reducing by two-thirds the under-five mortality rate in Uzbekistan.
Millennium Development Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health - Target 5.A : Displays progress by Iran in reducing the maternal mortality ratio.
Millennium Development Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health - Target 5.B : Shows the trend in the adolescent birth rate, per 1,000 women, in France.
Millennium Development Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases - Target 6.A : Tracks progress in South Africa in halting and beginning to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS using the metric of the number of children orphaned by AIDS.
Millennium Development Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases - Target 6.B : Ranks nations by antiretroviral therapy coverage among people with advanced HIV infection.
Millennium Development Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases - Target 6.C : Shows the declining trend in Equatorial New Guinea in the tuberculosis death rate per year per 100,000 population.
Millennium Development Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability - Target 7.A : Shows the trend in energy use (kg oil equivalent) per $1,000 GDP in the United States.
Millennium Development Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability - Target 7.B : Tracks percentage of protected terrestrial and marine areas in Uruguay and Brazil.
Millennium Development Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability - Target 7.C : Shows the proportion of the population using improved drinking water sources in Yemen.
Millennium Development Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability - Target 7.D : Tracks the declining trend in the slum population as a percentage of the urban population in Bangladesh.
Millennium Development Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development - Target 8 A : As a metric of developing an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system, this indicator tracks the percentage of imports from developing countries, admitted duty free, into Argentina.
Millennium Development Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development - Target 8 D : Displays debt service as percentage of exports of goods and services and net income in Burkina Faso.
Millennium Development Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development - Target 8.F: Shows internet users and mobile cellular subscriptions per 100 inhabitants in Algeria.
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