TARGETS TO BE REACHED

Target 1.A:
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1.25 a day

• The target of reducing extreme poverty rates by half was met five years ahead of the 2015 deadline.
• The global poverty rate at $1.25 a day fell in 2010 to less than half the 1990 rate. 700 million fewer people lived in conditions of extreme poverty in 2010 than in 1990. However, at the global level 1.2 billion people are still living in extreme poverty.

Target 1.B:
Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people

• Globally, 384 million workers lived below the $1.25 a day poverty line in 2011—a reduction of 294 million since 2001.
• The gender gap in employment persists, with a 24.8 percentage point difference between men and women in the employment-to-population ratio in 2012.

Target 1.C
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

• The hunger reduction target is within reach by 2015.
• Globally, about 870 million people are estimated to be undernourished.
• More than 100 million children under age five are still undernourished and underweight.

Target 2 .

Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

• Enrolment in primary education in developing regions reached 90 per cent in 2010, up from 82 per cent in 1999, which means more kids than ever are attending primary school.
• In 2011, 57 million children of primary school age were out of school.
• Even as countries with the toughest challenges have made large strides, progress on primary school enrolment has slowed. Between 2008 and 2011, the number of out-of-school children of primary age fell by only 3 million.
• Globally, 123 million youth (aged 15 to 24) lack basic reading and writing skills. 61 per cent of them are young women.
• Gender gaps in youth literacy rates are also narrowing. Globally, there were 95 literate young women for every 100 young men in 2010, compared with 90 women in 1990.

Target 3.

Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015

• The world has achieved equality in primary education between girls and boys, but only 2 out of 130 countries have achieved that target at all levels of education.
• Globally, 40 out of every 100 wage-earning jobs in the non-agricultural sector were held by women in 2011. This is a significant improvement since 1990.
• In many countries, gender inequality persists and women continue to face discrimination in access to education, work and economic assets, and participation in government. For example, in every developing region, women tend to hold less secure jobs than men, with fewer social benefits.
• Violence against women continues to undermine efforts to reach all goals.
• Poverty is a major barrier to secondary education, especially among older girls.
• Women are largely relegated to more vulnerable forms of employment.

REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY

Target 4.

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

• Despite population growth, the number of deaths in children under five worldwide declined from 12.4 million in 1990 to 6.6 million in 2012, which translates into about 17,000 fewer children dying each day.
• Since 2000, measles vaccines have averted over 10 million deaths.
• Despite determined global progress in reducing child deaths, an increasing proportion of child deaths are in sub-Saharan Africa where one in ten children die before the age of five and in Southern Asia where one in 16 die before age five.
• As the rate of under-five deaths overall declines, the proportion that occurs during the first month after birth is increasing.
• Children born into poverty are almost twice as likely to die before the age of five as those from wealthier families.
• Children of educated mothers—even mothers with only primary schooling—are more likely to survive than children of mothers with no education.

Target 5.A:
Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio

• Maternal mortality has nearly halved since 1990. An estimated 287,000 maternal deaths occurred in 2010 worldwide, a decline of 47 per cent from 1990. All regions have made progress but accelerated interventions are required in order meet the target.
• In Eastern Asia, Northern Africa and Southern Asia, maternal mortality has declined by around two-thirds.
• Nearly 50 million babies worldwide are delivered without skilled care.
• The maternal mortality ratio in developing regions is still 15 times higher than in the developed regions.
• The rural-urban gap in skilled care during childbirth has narrowed.

Target 5.B:
Achieve universal access to reproductive health

• More women are receiving antenatal care. In developing regions, antenatal care increased from 63 per cent in 1990 to 81 per cent in 2011.
• Only half of women in developing regions receive the recommended amount of health care they need.
• Fewer teens are having children in most developing regions, but progress has slowed.
• The large increase in contraceptive use in the 1990s was not matched in the 2000s.
• The need for family planning is slowly being met for more women, but demand is increasing at a rapid pace.
• Official Development Assistance for reproductive health care and family planning remains low.

Target 6.A:
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

• New HIV infections continue to decline in most regions.
• More people than ever are living with HIV due to fewer AIDS-related deaths and the continued large number of new infections with 2.5 million people are newly infected each year.
• Comprehensive knowledge of HIV transmission remains low among young people, along with condom use.
• More orphaned children are now in school due to expanded efforts to mitigate the impact of AIDS.

Target 6.B:
Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it

• While the target was missed by 2011, access to treatment for people living with HIV increased in all regions.
• At the end of 2011, 8 million people were receiving antiretroviral therapy for HIV. This total constitutes an increase of over 1.4 million people from December 2010.
• By the end of 2011, eleven countries had achieved universal access to antiretroviral therapy.

Target 6.C:
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

• The global estimated incidence of malaria has decreased by 17 per cent since 2000, and malaria-specific mortality rates by 25 per cent.
• In the decade since 2000, 1.1 million deaths from malaria were averted.
• Countries with improved access to malaria control interventions saw child mortality rates fall by about 20 per cent.
• Thanks to increased funding, more children are sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Treatment for tuberculosis has saved some 20 million lives between 1995 and 2011.

Target 7.A:
Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources

• Forests are a safety net for the poor, but they continue to disappear at an alarming rate.
• Of all developing regions, South America and Africa saw the largest net losses of forest areas between 2000 and 2010.
• Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) have increased by more than 46 per cent since 1990.
• In the 25 years since the adoption of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, there has been a reduction of over 98 per cent in the consumption of ozone-depleting substances.
• At Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, world leaders approved an agreement entitled “The Future We Want,” and more than $513 billion was pledged towards sustainable development initiatives.

Target 7.B:
Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss

• More areas of the earth’s surface are protected. Since 1990, protected areas have increased in number by 58 per cent.
• Growth in protected areas varies across countries and territories and not all protected areas cover key biodiversity sites.
• By 2010, protected areas covered 12.7 per cent of the world’s land area but only 1.6 per cent of total ocean area.

Target 7.C:
Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation

• The world has met the target of halving the proportion of people without access to improved sources of water, five years ahead of schedule.
• Between 1990 and 2010, more than two billion people gained access to improved drinking water sources.
• The proportion of people using an improved water source rose from 76 per cent in 1990 to 89 per cent in 2010.
• Over 40 per cent of all people without improved drinking water live in sub-Saharan Africa.
• In 2011, 768 million people remained without access to an improved source of drinking water.
• Over 240,000 people a day gained access to improved sanitation facilities from 1990 to 2011.
• Despite progress, 2.5 billion in developing countries still lack access to improved sanitation facilities.

Target 7.D:
Achieve, by 2020, a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

• The target was met well in advance of the 2020 deadline.
• The share of urban slum residents in the developing world declined from 39 per cent in 2000 to 33 per cent in 2012. More than 200 million of these people gained access to improved water sources, improved sanitation facilities, or durable or less crowded housing, thereby exceeding the MDG target
• 863 million people are estimated to be living in slums in 2012 compared to 650 million in 1990 and 760 million in 2000

Target 8.A:
Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system

• Despite the pledges by G20 members to resist protectionist measures initiated as a result of the global financial crisis, only a small percentage of trade restrictions introduced since the end of 2008 have been eliminated. The protectionist measures taken so far have affected almost 3 per cent of global trade.

Target 8.B:
Address the special needs of least developed countries

• Tariffs imposed by developed countries on products from developing countries have remained largely unchanged since 2004, except for agricultural products.
• Bilateral aid to sub-Saharan Africa fell by almost 1 per cent in 2011.
• There has been some success of debt relief initiatives reducing the external debt of heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs) but 20 developing countries remain at high risk of debt distress.

Target 8.C:
Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States

• Aid to landlocked developing countries fell in 2010 for the first time in a decade, while aid to small island developing States increased substantially.

Target 8.D:
Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries

• At this time, it appears developing countries weathered the 2009 economic downtown and in 2011 the debt to GDP ratio decreased for many developing countries. Vulnerabilities remain. Expected slower growth in 2012 and 2013 may weaken debt ratios.

Target 8.E:
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries

• Resources available for providing essential medicines through some disease-specific global health funds increased in 2011, despite the global economic downturn.
• There has been little improvement in recent years in improving availability and affordability of essential medicines in developing countries.

Target 8.F:
In cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications

• 77 per cent of inhabitants of developed countries are Internet users, compared with only 31 per cent of inhabitants in developing countries.
• The number of mobile cellular subscriptions worldwide by the end of 2011 reached 6 billion.

Monitoring aid delivery

• The Integrated Implementation Framework (IIF) was developed to record and monitor financial as well as policy commitments made in support of the MDGs by UN Member States and other international stakeholders.