Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

T h e g o a l s a n d t a r g e t s a r e b a s e d o n t h e U N M i l l e n n i u m D e cl a r a t i o n , a n d t h e U N G e n e r a l A sse m b l y h a s
approved them as part of the Secretary General's road map towards implementing the declaration.
UNDP worked with other UN departments, funds and programmes, the World Bank, the International
M o n e t a r y F u n d a n d t h e O r g a n i z a t i o n f o r E co n o m i c C o o p e r a t i o n D e v e l o p m e n t t o i d e n t i f y o v e r 4 0
q u a n t i f i a b l e i n d i ca t o r s t o a sse ss p r o g r e ss.
Goals and Targets Indicators

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 1. Proportion of population below $1 per day
2015, the proportion of people (PPP-values)
whose income is less than one 2. Poverty gap ratio [incidence x depth of
dollar a day poverty]
3. Share of poorest quintile in national
consumption
Target 2: Halve, between 1990 and 4. Prevalence of underweight children (under-
2015, the proportion of people five years of age)
who suffer from hunger 5. Proportion of population below minimum
level of dietary energy consumption
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Target 3: Ensure that, by 2015, 6. Net enrolment ratio in primary education
children everywhere, boys and 7. Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who
girls alike, will be able to reach grade 5
complete a full course of 8. Literacy rate of 15-24 year olds
primary schooling
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Target 4: Eliminate gender 9. Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary
disparity in primary and and tertiary education
secondary education 10. Ratio of literate females to males of 15-24
preferably by 2005 and to all year olds
levels of education no later 11. Share of women in wage employment in the
than 2015 non-agricultural sector
12. Proportion of seats held by women in
national parliament
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Target 5: Reduce by two-thirds, 13. Under-five mortality rate
between 1990 and 2015, the 14. Infant mortality rate
under-five mortality rate 15. Proportion of 1 year old children immunised
against measles
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Target 6: Reduce by three- 16. Maternal mortality ratio
quarters, between 1990 and 17. Proportion of births attended by skilled
 2015, the maternal mortality health personnel
ratio
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Target 7: Have halted by 2015, and 18. HIV prevalence among 15-24 year old
begun to reverse, the spread pregnant women
of HIV/AIDS 19. Contraceptive prevalence rate
20. Number of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS
Target 8: Have halted by 2015, and 21. Prevalence and death rates associated with
begun to reverse, the malaria
incidence of malaria and other 22. Proportion of population in malaria risk
major diseases areas using effective malaria prevention and
treatment measures
23. Prevalence and death rates associated with
tuberculosis
24. Proportion of TB cases detected and cured
under DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment
Short Course)
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Target 9: Integrate the principles of 25. Proportion of land area covered by forest
sustainable development into 26. Land area protected to maintain biological
country policies and diversity
programmes and reverse the 27. GDP per unit of energy use (as proxy for
loss of environmental energy efficiency)
resources 28. Carbon dioxide emissions (per capita)
[Plus two figures of global atmospheric
pollution: ozone depletion and the
accumulation of global warming gases]
Target 10: Halve, by 2015, the 29. Proportion of population with sustainable
proportion of people without access to an improved water source
sustainable access to safe
drinking water
Target 11: By 2020, to have 30. Proportion of people with access to
achieved a significant improved sanitation
improvement in the lives of at 31. Proportion of people with access to secure
least 100 million slum dwellers tenure
[Urban/rural disaggregation of several of the
above indicators may be relevant for
monitoring improvement in the lives of slum
dwellers]
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development*
Some of the indicators listed below will be
Target 12: Develop further an open,
monitored separately for the Least
rule-based, predictable, non-
Developed Countries (LDCs), Africa,
discriminatory trading and
landlocked countries and small island
financial system
developing states.
Includes a commitment to
Official Development Assistance
good governance,
development, and poverty 32. Net ODA as percentage of DAC donors’GNI
reduction – both nationally and [targets of 0.7% in total and 0.15% for LDCs]
internationally 33. Proportion of ODA to basic social services
(basic education, primary health care,
nutrition, safe water and sanitation)
Target 13: Address the Special 34. Proportion of ODA that is untied
Needs of the Least Developed 35. Proportion of ODA for environment in small
Countries island developing states
36. Proportion of ODA for transport sector in
Includes: tariff and quota free land-locked countries
access for LDC exports;
enhanced programme of debt Market Access
relief for HIPC and 37. Proportion of exports (by value and
cancellation of official bilateral excluding arms) admitted free of duties and
debt; and more generous ODA quotas
for countries committed to 38. Average tariffs and quotas on agricultural
poverty reduction products and textiles and clothing
39. Domestic and export agricultural subsidies
in OECD countries
Target 14: Address the Special 40. Proportion of ODA provided to help build
Needs of landlocked countries trade capacity
and small island developing
states Debt Sustainability
41. Proportion of official bilateral HIPC debt
(through Barbados cancelled
Programme and 22nd General 42. Debt service as a percentage of exports of
Assembly provisions) goods and services
43. Proportion of ODA provided as debt relief
Target 15: Deal comprehensively 44. Number of countries reaching HIPC decision
with the debt problems of and completion points
developing countries through
national and international
measures in order to make
debt sustainable in the long
term
 Target 16: In co-operation with 45. Unemployment rate of 15-24 year olds
developing countries, develop
and implement strategies for
decent and productive work for
youth
Target 17: In co-operation with 46. Proportion of population with access to
pharmaceutical companies, affordable essential drugs on a sustainable
provide access to affordable, basis
essential drugs in developing
countries
Target 18: In co-operation with the 47. Telephone lines per 1000 people
private sector, make available 48. Personal computers per 1000 people
the benefits of new
technologies, especially Other Indicators TBD
information and
communications
* The selection of indicators for Goals 7 and 8 is subject to further refinement