Millennium Development Goals: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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Goal 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Target 1. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day
  - Purchasing power parities (PPP) conversion factor, local currency unit to international dollar
- Target 2. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from Hunger
  - Population undernourished, percentage
Goal 2. Achieve universal primary education
- Target 3. Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
Goal 3. Promote gender equality and empower women
- Target 4. Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and to all levels of education no later than 2015
Goal 4. Reduce child mortality
- Target 5. Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
Goal 5. Improve maternal health
- Target 6. Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
  - Births attended by skilled health personnel, percentage
Goal 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Target 8. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
Goal 7. Ensure environmental sustainability
- Target 9. Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
- Target 10. Halve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
  - Proportion of the population using improved drinking water sources, rural
  - Proportion of the population using improved sanitation facilities, rural
Goal 8. Develop a global partnership for development
- Target 14. Address the special needs of landlocked countries and small island developing States
  - ODA received in small islands developing States as percentage of their GNI
  - ODA received in small islands developing States, million US$
- Target 15. Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
  - Debt service as percentage of exports of goods and services and net income from abroad
- Target 16. In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth
- Target 18. In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications

Source: United Nations Statistics Division - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of February 15, 2007

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