1. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
Halve the proportion of people in extreme poverty, and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger, by 2015. |
2. Achieve Universal Primary Education
Ensure by 2015 that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling. |
3. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015. |
4. Reduce Child Mortality
Reduce by two-thirds the mortality rate among children under age five by 2015. |
5. Improve Maternal Health
Reduce by three-quarters the maternal mortality ratio by 2015. |
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Other Diseases
Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, the incidence of malaria, and other major diseases by 2015. |
7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Reverse the loss of environmental resources; by 2015, reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water; and by 2020, improve significantly the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers. |
8. Develop a Global Partnership for Development
Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, nondiscriminatory trading and financial system, and address the special needs of the least developed countries, landlocked countries, and small island states; deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries; develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth; provide access to affordable essential drugs; and make available the benefits of new technologies. (See www.developmentgoals.org and www.un.org/millenniumgoals.) |
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