The 8 Millennium Development Goals /Las 8 Metas del Milenio

by United Nations Development Programme

Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty

Target 1.A : Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day

Target 1.B : Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people

Target 1.C : Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger


Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education |

Target 2.A: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling


Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women |

Target 3.A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015


Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality |

Target 4.A: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate


Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health |

Target 5.A: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio


Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases |

Target 6.A: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

Target 6.B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it

Target 6.C: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases


Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability |

Target 7.A: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources

Target 7.B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss

Target 7.C: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation

Target 7.D: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers


Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development |

Target 8.A: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system

Target 8.B: Address the special needs of the least developed countries

Target 8.C: Address the special needs of landlocked developing 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 twenty-second special session of the General Assembly)

Target 8.D: 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 8.E: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries

Target 8.F: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communication