UNDP South Africa

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

In 2005, 1.4 billion people lived on US$1.25 or less a day. 10 million die every year of hunger and hunger-related diseases. Rising food prices may push 100 million people deeper into poverty. But fewer children below five are undernourished - from 33% in 1990 to 26% in 2006

Achieve Universal Primary Education

28 million more children are able to attend school since 1999. But 75 million still miss out on education-34 million boys and 41 million girls. More than 90% of children in developing countries are enrolled in primary schools and 54% attend secondary school.

PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

Women have more access to employment now than ever before. But they still earn one-third less than men. In 2008, women held 18% of parliamentary seats worldwide.

REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY

A child born in a developing country is over 13 times more likely to die within the first five years of life than a child born in an industrialized country. For the first time in 2006, annual deaths of children under five dropped below 10 million.

IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH

More than 500,000 women in developing countries die every year in childbirth or during pregnancy. In 2006, nearly 61% of women gave birth with the help of a midwife or doctor, compared to 55% in 2004.

COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES

In 2007, 33.2 million people were living with HIV. Malaria kills a child every 30 seconds. It infects 350-500 million people each year, killing 1 million. Global distribution of bed nets increased from 1.35 million in 2004 to 18 million in 2006.

ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

Nine planet Earths would be required to absorb the world's carbon if every person had the same energy-rich lifestyle as people in developed countries. Nearly one billion people live in slums. 2.5 billion people-nearly half the population of the developing world-live without adequate sanitation. Since 1990, 1.6 billion more people gained access to safe drinking water.

DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT

Landline and mobile phone users jumped from 530 million in 1990 to over 4 billion by 2006. Developed countries' subsidies to domestic agriculture are still more than three times higher than their Official Development Assistance. To date, of 41 heavily-indebted poor countries, 33 have received US$48 billion in debt relief. ODA needs to double to about US$100 billion a year to achieve the MDGs.