Health in the Millennium Development Goals
This table presents the eight Millennium Development Goals. Three out of eight goals, eight of the 16 targets and 18 of the 48 indicators relate directly to health. Health is also an important contributor to several other goals. The significance of the MDGs lies in the linkages between them: they are a mutually reinforcing framework to improve overall human development.
Health targets
Health indicators
Goal 1:
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Target 1
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day
Target 2
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
4.
5.Prevalence
of underweight children under five years of age
Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption
Goal 2:
Achieve universal primary education
Target 3
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 4
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and at all levels of education no later than 2015
Goal 4:
Reduce child mortality
Target 5
Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
13.
14.
15.Under-five
mortality rate
Infant mortality rate
Proportion of one-year-old children immunized against measles
Goal 5:
Improve maternal health
Target 6
Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
16.
17.Maternal mortality ratio
Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel
Goal 6:
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
Target 7
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of
HIV/AIDS
18.
19.
20.HIV prevalence among pregnant women aged 15-24 years
Condom use rate of the contraceptive prevalence rate
Ratio of school attendance of orphans to school attendance of non-orphans aged 10-14 years
Target 8
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of
malaria and other major diseases
21.
22.
23.
24.
Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria
Proportion of population in malaria-risk areas using effective malaria prevention and treatment measures
Prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis
Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under DOTS
Goal 7:
Ensure environmental sustainability
Target 9
Integrate the principles of sustainable development into
country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental
resources
29.
Proportion
of population using solid fuels
Target 10
Halve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking-water and sanitation
30.
Proportion of population with sustainable access to an
improved water source, urban and rural
Target 11
By 2020 to have achieved a significant improvement in the
lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
31.
Proportion of population with access to improved sanitation, urban and rural
Goal 8:
Develop a global partnership for development
Target 12
Develop
further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and
financial system
Target 13
Address
the special needs of the least developed countries
Target 14
Address
the special needs of landlocked countries and small island developing
states
Target 15
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 16
In
cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies
for decent and productive work for youth
Target 17
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide
access to affordable, essential drugs in developing countries
46.
Proportion of population with access to affordable
essential drugs on a sustainable basis
Target 18
In
cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new
technologies, especially information and communications
The targets and indicators related to health are shaded in blue.