Millennium development goals
The goals for global development, as decided in the year 2000 by governments globally to be achieved by 2015.
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
- Halve the 1990 figure for the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day. This target has already been met in East Asia and the Pacific but areas like sub-Saharan Africa are behind their targets.
- Halve the 1990 figure for the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. The developed nations are well on track to achieving this goal however again sub-Saharan Africa is behind its target and Western Asia has seen a rise in this figure since 1990.
- Achieve universal primary education.
- Ensure both males and females complete a full education. Many developed nations have already achieved this goal and others are on track to achieve this however sub-Saharan Africa, Western and Southern Asia are not on course to meet the target.
- Promote gender equality.
- Eliminate gender disparities in education in all primary, secondary and tertiary education. In developing countries, gender gaps still exist in enrolment at all levels of education
- Reduce child mortality.
- Reduce the 1990 figure by two thirds by 2015. Developed countries currently experience ~9 deaths before the age of 5 in every 1000 born. The goal is for at most 34 per 1000. Developing countries currently experience 91 per 1000.
- Improve maternal health.
- Reduce by 75% the maternal death figure in 1990 by 2015. Sub-Saharan Africa currently suffers a rate 50 times worse that of developed nations.
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
- In developing countries seven times as many people have HIV/AIDS as in developed nations.
- Ensure environmental sustainability.
- To reverse the loss of environmental resources. CO2 emission levels per capita have hardly changed in the past 14 years, though 1999 levels of CFC consumption were just 13% of that in 1986.
- Develop a global partnership for development.
- Create free trade between nations and cancel the debt of developing countries. Remove legal barriers that allow large drug companies to keep their drugs out of developing nations. Net Official development assistance has dropped in recent years to an all-time low. Whilst imports to developed countries have increased, the proportion of this from developing nations has decreased.
These notes form a homework given in a lesson on 06/09/2004.
