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


What's new?

Implementation of the UN Millennium Declaration - Report of the Secretary-General (2004)

Millennium Development Goals: Status 2004 (PDF)

UN Peacekeeping: Rising Demand (PDF)

Peacekeeping missions rising to new high (PDF)

Progress on world anti-poverty goals (PDF)

Millennium Development Goals: Civil Society Takes Action - 57th Annual DPI/NGO Conference, 8-10 September 2004, New York


Millennium Declaration

Millennium Declaration
(PDF | HTML)

Secretary General's Report (2000)
(PDF | HTML)

Why do the Millennium Development Goals matter? (Brochure)


Implementation of the Millennium Declaration

Secretary-General's Report (2003); press release; press conference

Secretary General's Report (2002)

Road map towards the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration - Secretary-General's Report (2001)


Press Releases
and News Stories


24 August 2004 - ANNUAL DPI/NGO CONFERENCE TO FOCUS ON MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS; 8-10 SEPTEMBER 
More press releases >>
News Stories >>


More information

Statistics on the Achievement of the Millennium Goals

Human Development Report 2003

Fact Sheets (2002): The MDG and the Role of the United Nations (Fact Sheet 1); Country-by-Country reports (Fact Sheet 2)

How are we doing? (graphs - 2002) Goal 1 | Goal 1/2 | Goal 3/4 | Goal 5/6 | Goal 7 | Goal 8


Related sites

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Millennium Development Goals

Millennium Project (commissioned by the UN Secretary-General and supported by the UN Development Group)

Economic Commision for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) - Millennium Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean


Achieve universal primary education


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

Promote gender equality and empower women


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

Reduce child mortality

Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five

Improve maternal health

Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio

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


Ensure environmental sustainability

Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; 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


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 the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies—especially information and communications technologies