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Millennium Development Goals
Targets and Indicators Relating to Young People
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals provide countries around the world a framework for development, and time-bound targets by which progress can be measured. In 2000, the world’s leaders gathered at a special United Nations summit to pledge their support for the MDGs. These ambitious goals outline a plan to eliminate poverty worldwide, and to help improve the health and well-being of youth everywhere. But before they can help youth, governments and international organizations need to better understand them.
Of the eight goals, six relate to youth. MEASURE DHS uses the MDGs as a guide for designing indicators to track progress made by countries in meeting the targets set by the United Nations. The following table provides a list of a list of the goals and indicators that relate directly or indirectly to the well-being of youth. For more information on the Millenium Development Goals, visit the UN Millenium Goals website.
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Target |
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Indicator |
| Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger |
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Halve, between 1990
and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than US$1 a day
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger |
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Proportion of the population living on less than US$1 a day (1993 purchasing power parity)
Prevalence of underweight children under five years of age |
| Achieve universal primary education |
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Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling |
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Literacy rate of 15 to 24 year olds |
| Promote gender equality and empower women |
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Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015 |
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Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education
Ratio of literate women to men 15-24 years old |
| Improve maternal health |
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Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio |
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Maternal mortality ratio |
| Combat HIV/AIDS,
malaria and other diseases |
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Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS |
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HIV prevalence among pregnant women aged 15-24 years |
| Develop a global partnership for development |
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In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth |
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Unemployment rate of young people aged 15-24 years, each sex and total |
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