Official list of MDG indicators
All indicators should be disaggregated by sex and urban/rural as far as possible.
Effective 15 January 2008
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Goals and Targets
Indicators for monitoring progress
(from the Millennium Declaration)
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Target 1.A: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose
income is less than one dollar a day
1.1 Proportion of population below $1 (PPP) per daya
1.2 Poverty gap ratio
1.3 Share of poorest quintile in national consumption
Target 1.B: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all,
including women and young people
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
Target 1.C: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of
people who suffer from hunger
1.8 Prevalence of underweight children under-five years of age
1.9 Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy
consumption
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Target 2.A: 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 3.A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education,
preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Target 4.A: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five
mortality rate
Growth rate of GDP per person employed
Employment-to-population ratio
Proportion of employed people living below $1 (PPP) per day
Proportion of own-account and contributing family workers in total
employment
2.1 Net enrolment ratio in primary education
2.2 Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach last grade of primary
2.3 Literacy rate of 15-24 year-olds, women and men
3.1 Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education
3.2 Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector
3.3 Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament
4.1 Under-five mortality rate
4.2 Infant mortality rate
4.3 Proportion of 1 year-old children immunised against measles
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Target 5.A: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal 5.1 Maternal mortality ratio
mortality ratio
5.2 Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel
Target 5.B: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
Contraceptive prevalence rate
Adolescent birth rate
Antenatal care coverage (at least one visit and at least four visits)
Unmet need for family planning
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Target 6.A: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of
HIV/AIDS
6.1 HIV prevalence among population aged 15-24 years
6.2 Condom use at last high-risk sex
6.3 Proportion of population aged 15-24 years with comprehensive correct
knowledge of HIV/AIDS
6.4 Ratio of school attendance of orphans to school attendance of nonorphans aged 10-14 years
Target 6.B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for 6.5 Proportion of population with advanced HIV infection with access to
all those who need it
antiretroviral drugs
Target 6.C: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of
malaria and other major diseases
6.6 Incidence and death rates associated with malaria
6.7 Proportion of children under 5 sleeping under insecticide-treated
bednets
6.8 Proportion of children under 5 with fever who are treated with
appropriate anti-malarial drugs
6.9 Incidence, prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis
6.10 Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under directly
observed treatment short course