Comparative tables and graphs on how are countries performing towards the internationally agreed social development targets and goals
The Charts
How is the World progressing towards social development + the have and the have-nots the situation of each country + steps forward, steps back progress and setbacks
EASIER SAID THAN DONE How is the World progressing towards social development
Methodology
Information Poverty
Signature and Ratification of Key International Agreements
Measurable Goals
Target 1a: To achieve completion of primary education of at least 80% of school age children by 2000 Target 1b: To provide universal access to basic education for all school age children by 2000 Target 2: To achieve a life expectancy of over 60 years by 2000 Target 3a: 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 Target 3b: To reduce under 5 mortality rates by a third of the 1990 rate or to 70 per 1,000 live births by 2000 if this figure is lower Target 4: To reduce maternal mortality to half the 1990 level by 2000 Target 5: To achieve food security Target 6: To reduce severe and moderate malnutrition for children under 5 to half of the 1990 rate by 2000 Target 7: To provide access to health care services for all by 2000 Target 8a: To provide access to reproductive health care services to all persons (pregnancies attended per every 1,000 live births) Target 8b: To provide access to reproductive health care services to all persons (Percentages of births attended) Target 9: To reduce mortality and morbidity due to malaria by at least 20% of 1995 levels in 75% of countries affected Target 10: To eradicate, eliminate or control the main diseases constituting sanitary problems on a world level by 2000 Target 11: To reduce the adult illiteracy to at least half the 1990 level Target 12a: To provide access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation for all (Percentage of population with access to sanitation) Target 12b: To provide access to safe drinking water and aequatesanitation for all (Percentage of population with access to safe water) Progress and setbacks in the fulfillment of the Copenhagen goals Changes in women situation between 1990-1997 Changes in Social and Military Expenditure between 1990 and 1996 Trends of the Oficial Development Assistance (% of GNP) Table of ratifications of fundamental ILO conventions
