East
Asia & Pacific
Europe
& Central Asia
Latin
America & Caribbean
Middle
East & North Africa
South
Asia
Sub-Saharan
Africa
Progress toward the MDGs for selected indicators was calculated using the latest available data point and comparing it to the contemporaneous point on a reference path connecting the 1990 value to the MDG target. The reference path was calculated assuming a constant, annual or geometric rate of change. To obtain reference paths that are asymptotically bounded, indicators for which the target is "100 percent" (primary completion rate, immunizations, access to water) were recast as differences from 100 percent, so that the target is to reduce the indicator to zero. Thus the reference paths for all indicators, except the ratio or girls to boys in school, are downward sloping.
Notes on charts displayed below:
- Countries in green
made progress in the 1990s fast enough to attain the tar-get value
in the specified time period (by 2005 for gender equality and
by 2015 for all others). They are “likely" to achieve
the goals.
- Countries in light
green made progress, but too slowly to reach the goals in the
time specified. Continuing at the same rate, they will need as
much as twice
the time as the “likely" countries to reach the goals.
Rated “possible," they
need to accelerate progress.
- Countries in orange
made still slower progress. They are “unlikely" to reach
the
goals. To reach them, they will need to make progress at unprecedented
rates.
- Countries in red,
conditions have worsened since 1990, or they currently
stand at very high maternal mortality and HIV/AIDS prevalence.
They are
“very unlikely" to reach the goals.
- And countries in
gray lack adequate data to measure progress. Improvements
in the statistical systems of many countries are needed to provide
a complete
and accurate picture of their progress.
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