CEPAL - MDG Goals, targets and indicators

MDG Goals, targets and indicators

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were announced in the Millennium Declaration in September 2000. The first monitoring framework consisted in a list of 18 targets and 48 indicators that had to respond to 8 specific goals: 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; 2. Achieve universal primary education; 3. Promote gender equality and empower women; 4. Reduce child mortality; 5. Improve maternal health; 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; 7. Ensure environmental sustainability; and, 8. Develop a global partnership for development.

In the 2005 Millennium Summit it was agreed to incorporate 4 new targets to the monitoring framework. Employment, access to reproductive health services, access to HIV treatments and biodiversity rose as important subjects. The Inter-Agency Expert Group on MDG indicators (IAEG) was in charge of selecting the new indicators.

The IAEG presented the revised monitoring framework of the Millennium Development Goals, approved by the General Assembly at its 62nd Session, on September 2007. To ensure coherence and consistency in MDG monitoring within the United Nations system, the new framework has been used for all reporting on these matters including the annual reporting to the General Assembly on the implementation of the Millennium Declaration.

The new framework involves 21 targets and 60 indicators enumerated by targets and goals. A number of indicators were eliminated, various were modified and some were incorporated. At the left of the following table the new enumeration is displayed. At the right the old enumeration is available.

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N	Goal/Target/Indicator	Preexistent, Eliminated, modified or new*	Previous numeration*
	Goal 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Target 1.A	Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day	Target 1
1.1	Proportion of population below $1 per day (1a)	Preexistent	1
1.2	Poverty gap ratio	Preexistent	2
1.3	Share of poorest quintile in national consumption	Preexistent	3
Target 1.B	Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people	New Target
1.4	Growth rate of GDP per person employed	New	-
1.5	Employment-to-population ratio	New	-
1.6	Proportion of employed people living below $1 (PPP) per day	New	-
1.7	Proportion of own-account and contributing family workers in total employment	New	-
Target 1.C	Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger	Target 2
1.8	Prevalence of underweight children under-five years of age	Preexistent	4
1.9	Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption	Preexistent	5

	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	Target 3
2.1	Net enrolment ratio in primary education	Preexistent	6
2.2	Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach last grade of primary	Reformulated	7
2.3	Literacy rate of 15-24 year-olds, women and men	Preexistent	8

	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	Target 4
3.1	Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education	Preexistent	9
3.2	Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector	Preexistent	11
3.3	Proportion of seats held by women in ateo f parliament	Preexistent	12

	Goal 4. Reduce child mortality
Target 4.A	Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate	Target 5
4.1	Under-five mortality rate	Preexistent	13
4.2	Infant mortality rate	Preexistent	14
4.3	Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel	Preexistent	15

	Goal 5. Improve maternal health
Target 5.A	Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio	Target 6
5.1	Maternal mortality ratio	Preexistent	16
5.2	Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel	Preexistent	17
Target 5.B	Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health	New Target
5.3	Contraceptive prevalence rate	Preexistent	19c
5.4	Adolescent birth rate	New	-
5.5	Antenatal care coverage (at least one visit and at least four visits)	New	-
5.6	Unmet need for family planning	New	-

	Goal 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and oher diseases
Target 6.A	Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS	Target 7
6.1	HIV prevalence among population aged 15-24 years	Reformulated	18
6.2	Condom use at last high-risk sex	Preexistent	19b
6.3	Proportion of population aged 15-24 years with comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS	Preexistent	19.b
6.4	Ratio of school attendance of orphans to school attendance of non-orphans aged 10-14 years	Reformulated	20
Target 6.B	Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it	New Target
6.5	Proportion of population with advanced HIV infection with access to antiretroviral drugs	New	-
Target 6.C	Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases	Target 8
6.6	Incidence and death rates associated with malaria	Reformulated	21
6.7	Proportion of children under 5 sleeping under insecticide-treated bednets	Reformulated	22
6.8	Proportion of children under 5 with fever who are treated with appropriate anti-malarial drugs	Reformulated	22
6.9	Incidence, prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis	Reformulated	23
6.10	Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured nder directly observed treatment short course	Preexistent	24

	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 9
7.1	Proportion of land area covered by forest	Preexistent	25
7.2	CO2 emissions, total, per capita and per $1 GDP (PPP)	Reformulated	28a
7.3	Consumption of ozone-depleting substances	New	-
7.4	Proportion of fish stocks within safe biological limits	New	-
7.5	Proportion of total water resources used	New	-
Target 7.B	Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss	New Target
7.6	Proportion of terrestrial and marine areas protected	Reformulated	26
7.7	Proportion of species threatened with extinction	New	-
Target 7.C	Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation	Target 10
7.8	Proportion of population using an improved drinking water source	Reformulated	30
7.9	Proportion of population using an improved sanitation facility	Preexistent	31
Target 7.D	By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers	Target 11
7.10	Proportion of urban population living in slums (7d)	Reformulated	32

	Goal 8. Develop a global partnership for development
Target 8.A	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 12
Target 8.B	Address the special needs of the least developed countries Includes: tariff and quota free access for the least developed countries’ exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous ODA for countries committed to poverty reduction	Target 13
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 14
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 15
	Official development assistance (ODA)
8.1	Net ODA, total and to the least developed countries, as percentage of OECD/DAC donors’ gross national income	Preexistent	33
8.2	Proportion of total bilateral, sector-allocable ODA of OECD/DAC donors to basic social services (basic education, primary health care, nutrition, safe water and sanitation)	Preexistent	34
8.3	Proportion of bilateral official development assistance of OECD/DAC donors that is untied	Preexistent	35
8.4	ODA received in landlocked developing countries as a proportion of their gross national incomes	Preexistent	36
8.5	ODA received in small island developing States as a proportion of their gross national incomes	Preexistent	37
	Market access
8.6	Proportion of total developed country imports (by value and excluding arms) from developing countries and least developed countries, admitted free of duty	Preexistent	38
8.7	Average tariffs imposed by developed countries on agricultural products and textiles and clothing from developing countries	Preexistent	39
8.8	Agricultural support estimate for OECD countries as a percentage of their gross domestic product	Preexistent	40
8.9	Proportion of ODA provided to help build trade capacity	Preexistent	41
	Debt sustainability
8.10	Total number of countries that have reached their HIPC decision points and number that have reached their HIPC completion points (cumulative)	Preexistent	42
8.11	Debt relief committed under HIPC and MDRI Initiatives	Preexistent	43
8.12	Debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and services	Preexistent	44
Target 8.E	In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries	Target 17
8.13	Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable basis	New	-
Target 8.F	In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications	Target 18
8.14	Telephone lines per 100 population	Reformulated	47
8.15	Cellular subscribers per 100 population	Reformulated	47
8.16	Internet users per 100 population	Preexistent	48b

Notes
*	*Comparison between previous MDG Monitoring Framework reported to the General Assembly in it’s 59 session in 2004, and used in the Progress Reports since then, and the revised MDG Monitoring Framework approved by the General Assembly in it’s 62nd Session and effective since 15 January 2000.
(1a)	For monitoring country poverty trends, indicators based on national poverty lines should be used, where available.
(7d)	The actual proportion of people living in slums is measured by a proxy, represented by the urban population living in households with at least one of the four characteristics: (a) lack of access to improved water supply; (b) lack of access to improved sanitation; (c) overcrowding (3 or more persons per room); and (d) dwellings made of non-durable material.