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Goals, targets, and indicators
    
Goals and targets from the Millennium Declaration Indicators for monitoring progress
Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Target 1 Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day
1 Proportion of population below $1 (PPP) a daya
1a Poverty headcount ratio (percentage of population below the national poverty line)
2 Poverty gap ratio [incidence x depth of poverty]
3 Share of poorest quintile in national consumption
Target 2 Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
4 Prevalence of underweight children under five years of age
5 Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption
Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education
Target 3 Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
6 Net enrollment ratio in primary education
7 Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach grade 5b
8 Literacy rate of 15- to 24-year-olds
Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower women
Target 4 Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015
9 Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary, and tertiary education
10 Ratio of literate women to men ages 15–24
11 Share of women in wage employment in the
nonagricultural sector
12 Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments
Goal 4 Reduce child mortality
Target 5 Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
13 Under-five mortality rate
14 Infant mortality rate
15 Proportion of one-year-old children immunized against measles
Goal 5 Improve maternal health
Target 6 Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
16 Maternal mortality ratio
17 Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel
Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
Target 7 Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
18 HIV prevalence among pregnant women ages 15–24
19 Condom use rate of the contraceptive prevalence ratec
19a Condom use at last high-risk sex
19b Percentage of 15- to 24-year-olds with comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/AIDSd
19c Contraceptive prevalence rate
20 Ratio of school attendance of orphans to school attendance of non orphans ages
10–14
Target 8 Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
21 Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria
22 Proportion of population in malaria-risk areas using effective malaria prevention and treatment measures e
23 Prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis
24 Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under directly observed treatment, short course (DOTS)
Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability
Target 9 Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources
25 Proportion of land area covered by forest
26 Ratio of area protected to maintain biological diversity to surface area
27 Energy use (kilograms of oil equivalent) per $1 GDP (PPP)
28 Carbon dioxide emissions per capita and consumption of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (ODP tons)
29 Proportion of population using solid fuels
Target 10 Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
30 Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water source, urban and rural
31 Proportion of population with access to improved sanitation, urban and rural
Target 11 By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
32 Proportion of households with access to secure tenure
Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for development
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 the least developed countries’ exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous ODA for countries committed to poverty reduction
Target 14 Address the special needs of landlocked countries and small island developing states (through the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the outcome of the 22nd special session of the General Assembly)
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 (LDCs),  Africa, landlocked countries and small island developing  states.
           
 Official development assistance (ODA)
33 Net ODA, total and to the least developed countries, as a percentage of OECD/DAC donors’ gross national income
34 Proportion of total bilateral, sector-allocable ODA of OECD/DAC donors to basic social services (basic education, primary health care, nutrition, safe water and sanitation)
35 Proportion of bilateral official development assistance of OECD/DAC donors that is untied
36 ODA received in landlocked countries as a proportion of their gross national incomes
37 ODA received in small island developing states as proportion of their gross national incomes
                
 Market access
38 Proportion of total developed country imports (by value and excluding arms) from developing countries and from the least developed countries, admitted free of duty
39 Average tariffs imposed by developed countries on agricultural products and textiles and clothing from developing countries
40 Agricultural support estimate for OECD countries as a percentage of their gross domestic product 
41 Proportion of ODA provided to help build trade capacity
         
 Debt sustainability
42 Total number of countries that have reached their HIPC decision points and number that have reached their HIPC completion points (cumulative)
43 Debt relief committed under HIPC Debt Initiative
44 Debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and services
Target 16 In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth
45 Unemployment rate of 15- to 24-year-olds, male and female and total f
Target 17 In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
46 Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable basis
Target 18 In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
47 Telephone lines and cellular subscribers per 100 people
48a Personal computers in use per 100 people
48b Internet users per 100 people
         
Note: Goals, targets, and indicators effective September 8, 2003.
a. For monitoring country poverty trends, indicators based on national poverty lines should be used, where available.
b. An alternative indicator under development is “primary completion rate.”
c. Among contraceptive methods, only condoms are effective in preventing HIV transmission. Since the condom use rate is only measured among women in union, it is supplemented by an indicator on condom use in high-risk situations (indicator 19a) and an indicator on HIV/AIDS knowledge (indicator 19b). Indicator 19c (contraceptive prevalence rate) is also useful in tracking progress in other health, gender, and poverty goals.
d. This indicator is defined as the percentage of 15- to 24-year-olds who correctly identify the two major ways of preventing the sexual transmission of HIV (using condoms and limiting sex to one faithful, uninfected partner), who reject the two most common local misconceptions about HIV transmission, and who know that a healthy-looking person can transmit HIV. However, since there are currently not a sufficient number of surveys to be able to calculate the indicator as defined above, UNICEF, in collaboration with UNAIDS and WHO, produced two proxy indicators that represent two components of the actual indicator. They are the percentage of women and men ages 15–24 who know that a person can protect herself from HIV infection by “consistent use of condom,” and the percentage of women and men ages 15–24 who know a healthy-looking person can transmit HIV.
e. Prevention to be measured by the percentage of children under age five sleeping under insecticide-treated bednets; treatment to be measured by percentage of children under age five who are appropriately treated.
f. An improved measure of the target for future years is under development by the International Labour Organization.