Who we are | About the Goals | Reports | Take Action | MDG Tools | Pressroom | Contact us About the Goals About the MDGs Goals and targets Indicators   Goals and targets   Target 1. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day Target 2. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger       Target 3. Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling       Target 4. Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015       Target 5. Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate       Target 6. Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio       Target 7. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS Target 8. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases       Target 9. Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources Target 10. Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation Target 11. Have achieved by 2020 a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers       Target 12. Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, nondiscriminatory trading and financial system (includes a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction?both nationally and internationally) Target 13. Address the special needs of the Least Developed Countries (includes tariff- and quota-free access for Least Developed Countries? exports, enhanced program of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries [HIPCs] and cancellation of official bilateral debt, and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction) Target 14. Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing states (through the Program of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and 22nd General Assembly provisions) Target 15. Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term   Some of the indicators listed below are monitored separately for the least developed countries, Africa, landlocked developing countries, and small island developing states Target 16. In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth Target 17. In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries Target 18. In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications technologie   Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals “Investing in Development brings together the core recommendations of the UN Millennium Project. By outlining practical investment strategies and approaches to financing them, the report presents an operational framework that will allow even the poorest countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.” For a more detailed update on country progress, please see Chapter 2 of Investing In Development (External site) UN Statistics: MDG Indicators Database (External site) World Bank - Millennium Development Goals (External site) Core MDG Documents Other MDG related sites One United Nations Plaza | 21st floor Rm. 2160 | New York, N.Y. 10017, USA Tel: +1 (212) 906 5735 | Fax: +1 (212) 906 6349 © Copyright 2005 Millennium Project | Disclaimer