The Millennium Development Goals were eight goals established by the United Nations in 2000 to be achieved by 2015. The goals aimed to eradicate extreme poverty, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability, and develop a global partnership for development. The goals targeted specific outcomes like reducing poverty and hunger, improving access to healthcare, education, water and sanitation, and collaborating globally to achieve development for all nations and people.

2. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international
development goals that were established following the Millennium
Summit of the United Nations in 2000, following the adoption of
the United Nations Millennium Declaration. All 189 United Nations
member states at the time (there are 193 currently) and at least
23 international organizations committed to help achieve the following
Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs)

4.  Halve the proportion of people living on less than $1 a day
 Achieve Decent Employment for Women, Men, and Young People
 Halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
Targets

5. Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
Targets
By 2015, all children can complete a full course of primary
schooling, girls and boys
 Enrolment in primary education
 Completion of primary education

6. Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Targets
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary
education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

7. Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality Rate
Targets
Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the
under-five mortality rate

8. Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health
Targets
 Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
 Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health

9. Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Other Diseases
Targets
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those
who need it
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other
major diseases

10. Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Targets
Integrate the principles of sustainable
development into country policies and programs;
reverse loss of environmental resources
Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a
significant reduction in the rate of loss
Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without
sustainable access to safe drinking water and
basic sanitation
By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement
in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dweller

11. Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
Targets
Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-
discriminatory trading and financial system
Address the special needs of landlocked developing
countries and small island developing States
In co-operation with pharmaceutical companies,
provide access to affordable, essential drugs in
developing countries
 In co-operation with the private sector, make available
the benefits of new technologies, especially information
and communications

12. The percentage of people living on less than $1.25/day has been halved
globally, more than 2 billion people have gained access to clean water, the
number of people affected by malaria and tuberculosis has been minimized
and the hunger reduction target is attainable within the prescribed
deadline. However, other objectives are still far from completion. It
remains to be seen whether these areas in need of further progress will
receive adequate attention in coming years, and if new, loftier objectives
will be set in spheres of development where previous goals have already
been met.
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