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Introduction
1. Reducing poverty and hunger
2. Educating all children
3. Empowering women
4. Saving children
5. Caring for mothers
6. Combating disease
7. Using resources wisely
8. Working together
Millennium Development Goals, targets and indicators
Tables
1.1
Size of the economy
1.2
Millennium Development Goals: eradicating poverty and improving lives
1.3
Millennium Development Goals: protecting our common environment
1.4
Millennium Development Goals: overcoming obstacles
1.5
Women in development
1.6
Key indicators for other economies
Text figures & boxes
Goal 1
Poverty rates are falling, but progress has been uneven
China leads the way
Rising poverty in Africa—and between the poverty lines
Fewer people in extreme poverty
Africa’s poor get poorer
Which countries are on track to reach the MDG target?
Starting life at a disadvantage
Hunger rising in Africa
Poor and malnourished
Goal 2
More children everywhere are completing primary school
Education for all means girls and boys
Inefficient schools slow progress
Rich and poor: an attendance gap
Goal 3
More girls in school, but the 2005 target will be missed
More women working for wages
Few women in decision making positions
Income and tradition determine girls’ opportunities for schooling
Goal 4
Improving the odds for children
To reduce child deaths, infants must survive
Many children’s deaths are preventable
Unequal risks
Goal 5
Mothers at risk in Africa and South Asia
Mothers die because of inadequate health care
Needed: well trained health workers
Poor and rural women are least well served
Goal 6
While Sub-Saharan Africa struggles, HIV/AIDS spreads in other regions
The risk to women is growing
The risk of tuberculosis grows for the most vulnerable
In Africa AIDS is leaving millions of children orphaned
Young children bear the burden of malaria
Goal 7
People need safe, reliable supplies of water
Many still lack adequate sanitation
Urban areas are expanding
More environmental challenges ahead
Goal 8
Many sources and many patterns of financing
Official development assistance is rising, but still too little
Tariffs remain high on poor countries’ exports
Debt service is falling, but more relief is needed
New technologies are spreading quickly
1.1a
Developing countries produce slightly less than half the world’s output
1.2a
Location of indicators for Millennium Development Goals 1–5
1.3a
Location of indicators for Millennium Development Goals 6–7
1.4a
Location of indicators for Millennium Development Goal 8
