The UN Millennium
Development Goals & Targets
Goal 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Target 1: Reduce by half the proportion of people living on
less than a dollar a day
Target 2: Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer
from hunger
Goal 2. Achieve universal primary education
Target 3: Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course
of primary schooling
Goal 3. Promote gender equality and empower women
Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary
education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015
Goal 4. Reduce child mortality
Target 5: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children
under five
Goal 5. Improve maternal health
Target 6: Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
Goal 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Target 7: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Target 8: Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria
and other major diseases
Goal 7. Ensure environmental sustainability
Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development
into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental
resources
Target 10: Reduce by half the proportion of people without
sustainable access to safe drinking water
Target 11: Achieve significant improvement in lives of at
least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020
Goal 8. Develop a global partnership for development
Target 12. Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable,
non-discriminatory 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 least developed
countries’ exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for HIPCs
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
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.
Target 16: In cooperation with developing countries, develop
and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth.
Target 17: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide
access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
Target 18: In cooperation with the private sector, make available
the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
