Goals >> Target List
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 trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction nationally and internationally.
Target 13: Address the least developed countries' special needs. This includes tariff - and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction.
Target 14: Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States.
Target 15: Deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term
Target 16: In cooperation with the developing countries, develop 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 technologies.