Goal 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day.
• Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.

Goal 2. Achieve universal primary education
• 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
• 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
• Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

Goal 5. Improve maternal health
• Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio.

Goal 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.
• Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.

Goal 7. Ensure environmental sustainability
• Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the losses of environmental resources.
• Halve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water.
• By 2020 to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.

Goal 8. Develop a Global Partnership for Development
• Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
• Address the special needs of the least developed countries
• Address the special needs of landlocked countries and small island developing States.
• Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term.
• In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth
• In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
• In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications.

A recent World Bank report, Partnerships in Development, Progress in the Fight Against Poverty found that uneven progress was being made in terms of meeting the Millennium Development Goals.

The report says if current trends in growth and poverty reduction continue, the goal for eradicating extreme income poverty is within reach. But it may well be the only goal to be attained, for many of the other non-income goals – such as universal primary education, promoting gender equality and reducing child mortality – current rates of progress are too slow.