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Goal 1
Poverty rates are falling, but progress has been uneven
Country by country progress on poverty
Malnutrition rates are predicted to fall everywhere—except in Sub-Saharan Africa
Malnutrition—a persistent problem
Goal 2
More children everywhere are completing primary school
Country by country progress toward universal primary education
A long march to literacy
Patterns of school attendance
Goal 3
More girls in school, but many countries have missed the 2005 target
Country by country progress toward equal enrollment
Degrees of difference
Wealth, gender, and location make a difference
Goal 4
Improving the odds for children
Country by country progress toward reduced child mortality
Prevention comes first
Cruel differences
Goal 5
Mothers at risk in Africa and South Asia
Country by country progress in providing skilled care at births
Decreasing risk of young motherhood
Poor women need reproductive health services
Goal 6
As the HIV/AIDS epidemic matures, the death toll keeps rising
The HIV epidemic can be reversed
Tuberculosis rates on the rise or falling slowly
Malaria is a leading killer in Africa
Poor children bear the burden of malaria
Goal 7
Water and sanitation—basic services needed by all
Country by country progress toward access to water
. . . and to sanitation
Forests falling
Fuel for climate change—high carbon dioxide emitters
Goal 8
Many sources and many patterns
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
