In the millennium year, 189 United Nations
member states, including Australia, gathered
together aiming to halve world poverty by 2015.
So our world leaders came up with a plan;
a blueprint for a better world.
The plan sets 8 life-changing goals
to bring about freedom from poverty
for some of the world's poorest people.
These goals are the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Millennium
Development
Goals
(MDGs)
Goal 1
Halve the proportion of people living
on less than $1.25 a day
1.3 billion people
live in extreme poverty
Progress
Halve the proportion of people who
suffer from hunger
850 million people
suffer from hunger
Goal 2
Ensure that, by 2015, all children
can complete primary school.
61 million
children
of primary school age
are denied the right
to an education
Progress
Goal 3
Ensure girls have the same access
as boys to schooling
More girls
than boys
miss out on school
Progress
Equality for women
in employment
70%
of the world’s poor
are women and girls
Goal 4
Reduce by two-thirds
the under-five mortality rate
7.6 million children
die before
th
their 5 birthday
Progress
Goal 5
Reduce by three-quarters the
proportion of women dying in childbirth
32 women die
every hour
from childbirth or pregnancy
related causes
Progress
Goal 6
Halt and begin to reverse the
spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015
2.7 million people
were infected with HIV
in 2010
Progress
Halt and begin to reverse the
incidence of malaria and other
major diseases like tuberculosis
A child under the
age of 5 dies
every minute
from malaria
Goal 7
Halve the proportion of people without
access to improved water and sanitation
783 million people
don’t have access to
clean drinking water
Progress
2.5 billion people
don’t have access to
improved sanitation
Progress
Reverse the loss of biodiversity
and environmental resources
Forests are lost at the rate of
13 million hectares per year
(roughly the land area of Bangladesh)
Goal 8
Develop a trading and financial
system that is fair
Reduce the burden of debt
How much of Australia’s
Gross National Income
is needed to help achieve
the MDGs?
0.7%
(70c out of every $100)
Find out more!
For an interactive, multi-media
experience of the MDGs please visit:
http://blueprintforabetterworld.org
Last updated Mar 2013
Picture credits:
Maya Haviland
Cristiana Ximenes Belo
Phillip Gibbs
Sean Sprague
C. Lee
Cindy Godden
CAFOD
Find out more about the MDGs,
including stories and films, at:
http://blueprintforabetterworld.org
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Last updated Mar 2013