According to the UN report released a few days ago, progress of MDGs is a mixed bag. Find out where we are succeeding and where countries need to beef up their commitments.
The good:
- The global poverty rate is set to drop to below 15%, a better percentage than the 23% goal set out by the UN.
- Child mortality rates have improved. In 1990, the number of children under the age of 5 who died was 12.4 million. In 2009, this number dropped to 8.1 million.
- Deaths from malaria have decreased 20% since 2000.
- HIV infection rates have dropped 21% since 1997.
- Approximately 1.8 billion people now have access to clean and safe drinking water.
- Development has been uneven and large gaps of peoples within countries are not reaping any benefits from progress in the MDGs.
- The poorest children are still behind in progress with regards to nutrition. In 2009, a quarter of children in the developing world were underweight.
- Areas of conflict damper any development progress. For example, 28 million or 42% of primary school age children who are not enrolled in school live in conflict affected areas.
- Employment opportunities for women are still slim and with the recent global economic downturn, growth in employment for women was lower than for men.
- More than 2.6 billion people still lack access to toilets.
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