UN Millennium Development Goals
Published by the United Nations Department of Public Information

By 2015, all United Nations Member States have pledged to:

1.  Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

• Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day
• Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

2.  Achieve universal primary education

• Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling

3.  Promote gender equality and empower women

• Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

4.  Reduce child mortality

• Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five

5.  Improve maternal health

• Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality rate

6.  Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

• Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
• Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

7.  Ensure environmental sustainability

• Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs; reverse loss of environmental resources
• Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
• Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers by 2020

8.  Develop a global partnership for development

• Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction – nationally and internationally
• Address the least developed countries’ special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction
• Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States
• Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term
• In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs to developing countries
• In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies – especially information and communications technologies

For more information on the Millennium Development Goals, see Road Map towards the Implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration at http://www.un.org/millenniumgoal