Millennium development goals
| The global challenge | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger | Target for 2015: Halve the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day and those who suffer from hunger |
| 2 | Achieve universal primary education | Target for 2015: Ensure that all boys and girls complete primary school |
| 3 | Promote gender equality and empower women | Targets for 2005 and 2015: Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015 |
| 4 | Reduce child mortality | Target for 2015: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under 5 |
| 5 | Improve maternal health | Target for 2015: Reduce by three quarters the ratio of women dying in childbirth |
| 6 | Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases | Target for 2015: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases |
| 7 | Ensure environmental sustainability | Targets: |
| • Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources | ||
| • By 2015, reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water | ||
| • By 2020 achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers | ||
| 8 | Develop a global partnership for development | Targets: |
| • Develop further an open trading and financial system that includes a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally | ||
| • Address the least developed countries’ special needs, and the special needs of landlocked and small island developing states | ||
| • Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems | ||
| • 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 |