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MDG 1
Around the world:
In 2005, 1.4 billion people lived on US$1.25 or less a day. 10 million die every year of hunger and hunger-related diseases. Rising food prices may push 100 million people deeper into poverty. But fewer children below five are undernourished – from 33% in 1990 to 26% in 2006.
In the region:
Inequality of life [...] -
MDG 2
Around the world:
28 million more children are able to attend school since 1999. But 75 million still miss out on education-34 million boys and 41 million girls.
• More than 90% of children in developing countries are enrolled in primary schools and 54% attend secondary school.In the region:
The priority is to ensure that [...] -
MDG 3
Around the world:
Women have more access to employment now than ever before. But they still earn one-third less than men.
• In 2008, women held 18% of parliamentary seats worldwide. In Turkey, the number of seats held by women in parliament is half the world’s average with only 9%
In the region:
With few exceptions in [...] -
MDG 4
Around the world:
A child born in a developing country is over 13 times more likely to die within the first five years of life than a child born in an industrialized country.
• For the first time in 2006, annual deaths of children under five dropped below 10 million.
In the region:
Reduction of child mortality is on [...] -
MDG 5
Around the world:
More than 500,000 women in developing countries die every year in childbirth or during pregnancy.
• In 2006, nearly 61% of women gave birth with the help of a midwife or doctor, compared to 55% in 2004.
In the region:
Maternal mortality is a very serious issue in Central Asia where MDG 5 may not be [...] -
MDG 6
Around the world:
In 2007, 33.2 million people were living with HIV
• Malaria kills a child every 30 seconds. It infects 350-500 million people each year, killing 1 million.
• Global distribution of bed nets increased from 1.35 million in 2004 to 18 million in 2006.
In the region:
HIV/AIDS epidemic in concentrated stage in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and [...] -
MDG 7
Around the world:
Nine planet Earths would be required to absorb the world’s carbon if every person had the same energy-rich lifestyle as people in developed countries.
• Nearly one billion people live in slums.
• 2.5 billion people-nearly half the population of the developing world-live without adequate sanitation.
• Since 1990, 1.6 billion more people gained access to [...] -
MDG 8
Around the world:
Landline and mobile phone users jumped from 530 million in 1990 to over 4 billion by 2006.
• Developed countries’ subsidies to domestic agriculture are still more than three times higher than their Official Development Assistance.
• To date, of 41 heavily-indebted poor countries, 33 have received US$48 billion in debt relief.
• ODA needs to [...]
With only 5 years left to reach targets set by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), an MDG Regional Conference will be held in Istanbul on 9-10 June 2010. Hosted by the government of Turkey and co-organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the Conference draws on the full strength of the UN system. Enabling participating countries in the region to review the progress towards achieving the MDGs and share country-specific best practices and lessons learned, the conference will also provide an opportunity to explore the region-specific dynamics around the MDGs, including the situation of Middle Income Countries. The results of the conference will feed into the Annual Ministerial Review of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in 2010 and the Global MDG + 10 Summit scheduled for 18-20 September 2010 in New York. The two-day event will be attended by high level government officials from 22 countries, as well as representatives of relevant UN Agencies and Academia. Panel discussions will be organized around each MDG and its relation with the main drivers of progress toward achieving the MDGs.
The Conference will make a contribution to policy-oriented solutions and knowledge transfer; sharing of experiences, best practices and lessons learned; identification of the main challenges in achieving the MDGs in the region, with concrete articulation of what worked and what did not; and facilitating an accelerated achievement of the MDGs by 2015 across the region. A draft Regional MDG Report - prepared under the auspices of UNECE and in cooperation with relevant UN Agencies - as well as Turkey's MDG Report will also be presented at the conference.
We look forward to welcoming you to Istanbul and to our Conference.
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