Summary: Eradicate Extreme Poverty

Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

Target 1:

The target of reducing extreme poverty rates by half was met five years ahead of the 2015 deadline. The global poverty rate at $1.25 a day fell in 2010 to less than half the 1990 rate. 700 million fewer people lived in conditions of extreme poverty in 2010 than in 1990. However, at the global level 1.2 billion people are still living in extreme poverty.

Target 2:

The hunger reduction target should be almost met by 2015. Globally, about 842 million people are estimated to be undernourished. More than 99 million children under age five are still undernourished and underweight

Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education

Target 3:

More than 200 million of these people gained access to improved water sources, improved sanitation facilities, or durable or less crowded housing, thereby exceeding the MDG target 863 million people are estimated to be living in slums in 2012 compared to 650 million in 1990 and 760 million in 2000

Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development

Target 12

Official development assistance hit a record high of $134.8 billion in 2013. Aid shifted away from the poorest countries where attainment of the MDGs often lags the most.

Target 13

Net bilateral aid to Africa (where 34 of the 48 least developed countries are located) fell by 5.6 per cent in 2013, to $28.9 billion in real terms. Eighty per cent of imports from developing countries enter developed countries duty-free.

Target 14

Net bilateral aid to Africa (where 34 of the 48 least developed countries are located) fell by 5.6 per cent in 2013, to $28.9 billion in real terms. Eighty per cent of imports from developing countries enter developed countries duty-free.

Target

Target 17

Resources available for providing essential medicines through some disease-specific global health funds increased in 2011, despite the global economic downturn. There has been little improvement in recent years in improving availability and affordability of essential medicines in developing countries.

Target 18

Two-thirds of the world’s Internet users are in developing regions, where the number of Internet users doubled between 2009 and 2014. In 2014, Internet use penetration in developing countries grew by 8.7 per cent, twice as fast as in the developed world where its usage rose by 3.3 per cent. In Africa, almost 20 per cent of the population are online, up from 10 per cent in 2010. Thirty per cent of the world’s youth are digital natives, active online for at least five years. More than four billion people do not use the Internet, and 90 per cent of them are from the