United Nations
The Millennium Development Goals
GOAL 1:
ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER

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

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

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

GOAL 2:
ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

Target 2.A:
Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

GOAL 3:
PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

Target 3.A:
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015


GOAL 4:
REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY

Target 4.A:
Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

GOAL 5:
IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH

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

Target 5.B:
Achieve universal access to reproductive health
GOAL 6:
COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES

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

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

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

GOAL 7:
ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

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

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

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

Target 7.D:
Achieve, by 2020, a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
GOAL 8:
DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT

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

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

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

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

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

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