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Progress and Setbacks 1999

Comparative tables and graphs on how are countries performing
towards the internationally agreed social development targets and
goals

The Charts



The Chart of the Fulfilled Commitments

 

Documents

  Methodology
bajar PDF Information Poverty
bajar PDF Signature and Ratification of Key International Agreements
 


The Stopwatches

+ Female primary enrolment stopwatch
How are countries progressing towards the goals?

+ The under-5 mortality reduction stopwatch
How are countries progressing towards the goals?

+ The adult literacy stopwatch
How are countries progressing towards the goals?


bajar PDF

Measurable Goals

To achieve completion of primary education of at least 80% of school age children by 2000

To provide universal access to basic education for all school age children by 2000

To achieve a life expectancy of over 60 years by 2000

To reduce infant mortality rates by a third of the 1990 rate or to 50 per 1,000 live births by 2000 if this figure is lower

To reduce under 5 mortality rates by a third of the 1990 rates or to 70 per 1,000 live births by 2000 if this figure is lower

To reduce maternal mortality to half the 1990 level by 2000

To achieve food security

To reduce severe and moderate malnutrition for children under 5 to half of the 1990 rate by 2000

To provide access to health care services for all by 2000

To provide access to reproductive health services to all persons(pregnancies attended per every 1,000 live births)

To provide access to reproductive health care services to all persons (Percentages of births attended)

To reduce mortality and morbidity due to malaria by at least 20% of 1995 levels in 75% of countries affected

To eradicate, eliminate or control the main diseases constituting sanitary problems on a world level by 2000

To reduce the adult illiteracy to at least half the 1990 level

To provide access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation for all(Percentage of population with access to sanitation)

To provide access to safe drinking water and aequatesanitation for all (Percentage of population with access to safe water)

Changes in women situation

Changes in social defense expenditure between 1990 and 1995-96

 

 

 

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