UN Millennium Development Goals

UN Millennium
Development Goals

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

  • Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day

  • Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

2. Achieve universal primary education

  • Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling

3. Promote gender equality and empower women

  • Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

4. Reduce child mortality

  • Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five

5. Improve maternal health

  • Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio

6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

  • Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

  • Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

7. Ensure environmental sustainability

  • Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources
    Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water

  • Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020

8. Develop a global partnership for development

  • Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally

  • Address the least developed countries’ special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction

  • Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States

  • Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term

  • In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth

  • In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries

  • In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies—especially information and communications technologies