Millennium development goals.

Millennium Development Goals

Halving Hunger

Number of countries                                              Far
                                   Achieved  On track  Lagging  behind

Sub-Saharan Africa                    2        14         2      11
Arab States                           1         5         0       1
East Asia and the Pacific             0         6         0       3
South Asia                            0         3         0       3
Latin America and the Caribbean       3        10         2       5
Central and E. Europe and the CIS     0        11         0       0
Total                                 6        51         4      24

Number of countries                Slipping
                                     back    No data

Sub-Saharan Africa                    6         9
Arab States                           0        10
East Asia and the Pacific             1         9
South Asia                            0         2
Latin America and the Caribbean       3        10
Central and E. Europe and the CIS     1        13
Total                                15        68

Percentage of world population


Achieved        6    3%
On track       51   46%
Logging         4  < 1%
For behind     24   24%
Slipping back  15    4%
No data        68    8%

Note: Table made from bar graph

Acieving Gender Equality in Primary Education

Number of countries                                              Far
                                   Achieved  On track  Lagging  behind

Sub-Saharan Africa                    5         15        0       8
Arab States                           1         12        0       1
East Asia and the Pacific             5          7        0       1
South Asia                            0          5        0       0
Latin America and the Caribbean       3         13        0       1
Central and E. Europe and the CIS     4         16        0       0
Total                                20         70        0      13

Number of countries                Slipping
                                     back    No data

Sub-Saharan Africa                    1        15
Arab States                           0         3
East Asia and the Pacific             0         6
South Asia                            0         3
Latin America and the Caribbean       0        16
Central and E. Europe and the CIS     0         5
Total                                 1        64

Percentage of world population


Achieved       20  24%
On track       70  39%
Logging         0   0%
For behind     13   2%
Slipping back   1   1%
No data        64  19%

Note: Table made from bar graph

Reducing Under-five Mortality by Two Thirds

Number of countries                                              Far
                                   Achieved  On track  Lagging  behind

Sub-Soharan Africa                    0          7        3      24
Arab States                           0         11        1       4
East Asia and the Pacific             0         13        1       3
South Asia                            0          6        1       1
Latin America and the Caribbean       0         25        0       8
Central and E. Europe and the CIS     0         10        0      13
Total                                 0         85        7      59

Number of countries                Slipping
                                     back    No data

Sub-Soharan Africa                   10         0
Arab States                           1         0
East Asia and the Pacific             1         1
South Asia                            0         0
Latin America and the Caribbean       0         0
Central and E. Europe and the CIS     2         0
Total                                15         2

Percentage of world population


Achieved        0    0%
On track       85   24%
Logging         7   19%
For behind     59   38%
Slipping back  15    4%
No data         2  < 1%

Note: Table made from bar graph

Halving the Proportion of People Without Sustainable, Safe Drinking
Water

Number of countries                                              Far
                                   Achieved  On track  Lagging  behind

Sub-Saharan Africa                    2         8         4       9
Arab States                           2         6         0       3
East Asia and the Pacific             1         5         1       4
South Asia                            4         3         0       0
Latin America and the Caribbean       2        20         1       2
Central and E. Europe and the CIS     5         3         0       0
Total                                23        45         7       18

Number of countries                Slipping
                                     back    No data

Sub-Saharan Africa                    0        21
Arab States                           0         6
East Asia and the Pacific             0         8
South Asia                            0         1
Latin America and the Caribbean       0         8
Central and E. Europe and the CIS     0        17
Total                                 0        75

Percentage of world population


Achieved        6   31%
On track       51   46%
Logging         4  < 1%
For behind     24   21%
Slipping back  15    4%
No data        68    8%

Note: Table made from bargraph

Note: Regions include only HDI (human development index) countries,
while the total includes all UN member countries, excluding high-income
OECD members.

The HDI is not compiled for all UN Member States because not all
countries have sufficient data available to calculate the necessary
indices. Therefore, while the data in the HDI report demonstrates the
wealth of available human development statistics, they also show many
gaps in data on critical human development issues. The HDI was created
to re-emphasize that people and their lives should be the ultimate
criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic
growth. Thus, the HDI measures a country's achievements in three aspects
of human development: longevity, knowledge and a decent standard of
living.

Source: Human Development Report 2002, published by the United Nations
Development programme