2000 A Better World for All
Indicators for the international development goals

Goals Indicators
Economic well-being Reducing extreme poverty
The proportion of people living in extreme poverty in developing countries should be reduced by at least one-half between 1990 and 2015.
Incidence of extreme poverty: people living on less than $1 a day
Poverty gap ratio: incidence three times depth of poverty
Inequality: poorest fifth's share of national consumption
Child malnutrition: proportion of children under 5 who are underweight
Social development Universal primary education
There should be universal primary education in all countries by 2015.
Net enrolment in primary education
Completion of 4th grade of primary education
Literacy rate of 15 to 24 year-olds
Gender equality
Progress towards gender equality and the empowerment of women should be demonstrated by eliminating gender disparity in primary and secondary education by 2005.
Ratio of girls to boys in primary and secondary education
Ratio of literate females to males (15 to 24 year-olds)
Reducing infant and child mortality
The death rates for infants and children under the age of five years should be reduced in each developing country by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.
Infant mortality rate
Under-5 mortality rate
Reducing maternal mortality
The rate of maternal mortality should be reduced by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015.
Maternal mortality rate
Births attended by skilled health personnel
Reproductive health
Access should be available through the primary healthcare system to reproductive health services for all individuals of appropriate ages, no later than 2015.
Contraceptive prevalence rate
HIV prevalence in 15 to 24 year-old pregnant women
Environmental sustainability and regeneration Environment
There should be a current national strategy for sustainable development, in the process of implementation, in every country by 2005, so as to ensure that the current trends in the loss of environmental resources are effectively reversed at both global and national levels by 2015.
Countries with effective processes for sustainable development
Population with access to an improved water source
Forest area as a percentage of national surface area
Biodiversity: protected land area
Energy efficiency: GDP per unit of energy use
Carbon dioxide emissions per capita


More information about these goals and indicators can be found at www.oecd.org/dac/indicators. For a broader set of goals and indicators used by the United Nations in its common country assessments, see www.cca-undaf.org. Data for the international development goals and related indicators are available from the World Bank at www.worldbank.org/data. The International Monetary Fund provides links to national data sources and information on data quality and standards through its Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board: http://dsbb.imf.org. For the latest data and analysis, see the Millennium Development Goals web site at http://www.developmentgoals.org.


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