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What have the Millennium Development Goals achieved?







The UN has called the MDGs ‘the most successful anti-poverty movement in history,’ but what progress has been made on each of the goals?

The millennium development goals have targeted eight key areas – poverty, education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, disease, the environment and global partnership. Each goal is supported by 21 specific targets and more than 60 indicators. Below, we’ve looked at what has been achieved on some of the targets within each goal.
 
MDG 1
 
MDG 1: The number of people living on less than $1.25 a day has been reduced from 1.9 billion in 1990 to 836 million in 2015, although the target of halving the proportion of people suffering from hunger was narrowly missed.
 
MDG 2
 
MDG 2: Primary school enrolment figures have shown an impressive rise, but the goal of achieving universal primary education has just been missed, with the net enrolment rate increasing from 83% in 2000 to 91% this year.
Photo: Children fish from their home just above the water line in the Belen neighbourhood of Iquitos, Peru. Rodrigo Abd/AP.

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