MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDG)
2015 PROGRESS REPORT
The Millennium Development Goals, created by the United Nations, are a global effort in addressing poverty, especially in developing countries. These are goals that promote human rights
and that are meant to be attained within 15 years. So far, this has been the most successful movement to reduce poverty. This has also paved way for the creation of the Sustainable Development
Goals.
Objectives of the MDGs:
To address extreme poverty and its aspects and put a stop to them
To address the needs of the poorest in the world and to save them from the abject and
dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty
Goal Target
1. Eradicate Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the
Extreme Poverty proportion of people whose income
and Hunger is less than $1.00 a day
Achieve full and productive
employment and decent work for all,
including women and young people
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the
proportion of people who suffer from
hunger
12. Achieve Universal Ensure that, by 2015, children
Primary Education everywhere, boys and girls alike, will
be able to complete a full course of
primary schooling
15. Promote Gender Eliminate gender disparity in primary
Equality and and secondary education preferably
Empower Women by 2005 and to all levels of education
no later than 2015
To address issues related to education, health, gender, the environment, etc.
To protect our planet
Indicators Sub-indicators Status
Proportion of population below national Decreasing (Moderate pace)
poverty threshold
Poverty gap ratio Decreasing (High pace)
Share of poorest quintile in national Increasing
consumption
Growth rate of GDP per person employed Increasing
Employment-to-population ratio Increasing
Proportion of employed population living Increasing
below the national poverty threshold
Proportion of own-account and contributing Proportion of own-account (self-employed) Decreasing
family workers in total employment workers in total employment
Proportion of contributing (unpaid) family Decreasing
workers
Prevalence of underweight children under Decreasing (Moderate pace)
5 years of age using Child Growth
Standards (CGS)
Percent of household with per capita Proportion of population with mean one-day Decreasing (Slow pace)
energy less than 100% adequacy energy intake less than 100% adequacy
Proportion of population below national Decreasing (High pace)
subsistence (food) threshold
Net enrolment ratio in primary education Increasing
Population of pupils starting grade 1 who Primary completion rate Increasing (Slow pace)
reach grade 6 (Cohort Survival Rate)
Literacy rate of 15 to 24 years old Ratio of literate females to males of 15-24-year- Rate: Increasing (Slow pace)
olds Ration: Constant (High pace)
Ratio of girls to boys in primary education Ratio of girls to boys in elementary participation Primary: Decreasing (Slow
rates pace)
Elementary: Constant (High
pace)
Ratio of girls to boys in secondary Ratio of girls to boys in secondary participation Decreasing (High pace)
education rates
Ratio of girls to boys in tertiary education Decreasing (High pace)

20. Reduce Child Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990
Mortality and 2015, the under-five mortality
rate
23. Improve Maternal Reduce by three-quarters, between
Health 1990 and 2015, the maternal
mortality ratio
Achieve, by 2015, universal access
to reproductive health
30. Combat Have halted by 2015 and begun to
HIV/AIDS, Malaria reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
and Other Achieve, by 2010, universal access
Diseases to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all
those who need it
Have halted by 2015 and begun to
reverse the incidence of malaria and
other major diseases
38. Ensure Integrate the principles of
Environmental sustainable development into country
Sustainability policies & programs to reverse the
loss of environmental resources
Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving,
by 2010, a significant reduction in the
rate of loss
Halve, by 2015, the proportion of
population without sustainable
access to safe drinking water and
improved sanitation
By 2020, have achieved significant
improvement in the lives of at least
Share of women in wage employment in Increasing (Slow pace)
the non-agricultural sector
Proportion of seats held by women in Increasing (Slow pace)
national parliament
Under-five mortality rate Decreasing (High pace)
Infant mortality rate Decreasing (High pace)
Proportion of 1-year-old children Increasing (Moderate pace)
immunized against measles
Maternal mortality ratio Increasing (Slow pace)
Proportion of births attended by skilled Increasing (Moderate pace)
health personnel
Contraceptive prevalence rate Increasing (Slow pace)
Adolescent birth rate Increasing (Slow pace)
Antenatal care coverage Antenatal care coverage (at least one visit) Increasing
Antenatal care coverage (at least four visits) Increasing
Unmet need for family planning Decreasing
Prevalence associated with malaria Decreasing (High pace)
Death rate associated with malaria Decreasing (High pace)
Prevalence associated with tuberculosis Increasing (Slow pace)
Death rate associated with tuberculosis Decreasing (Slow pace)
Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected Increasing (High pace)
under directly observed treatment short
course (DOTS)
Proportion of tuberculosis cases cured Increasing (High pace)
under directly observed treatment short
course (DOTS)
Proportion of land area covered by forest Increasing
Consumption of ozone-depleting CFCs Decreasing
(ODP tons)
Ratio of area protected to maintain Increasing
biological diversity to surface area
Number of species threatened with Increasing
extinction
Proportion of families with access to safe Increasing (High pace)
water supply
Proportion of families with sanitary toilet Increasing (High pace)
facility
Proportion of families with access to Decreasing
secure tenure
 100 million slum dwellers
39. Develop a Global Develop further an open, rule-based,
Partnership for predictable, non-discriminatory
Development trading and financial system
Deal comprehensively with the debt Debt service as a percentage of exports of Decreasing
problems of developing countries goods and services
thru national & international
measures in order to make debt
sustainable in the long term
In cooperation with pharmaceutical
companies, provide access to
affordable essential drugs in
developing countries
In cooperation with the private Telephone lines subscribers per 100 Increasing
sector, make available the benefits of population
new technologies, especially Cellular phone subscribers per 100 Increasing
information and communications population
Progress Rate:
Low = less than 0.5 pace of progress
Moderate = 0.5 0.9 pace of progress
High = >0.9 pace of progress

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