3. aiming to halve world poverty by the year 2015.
In 2000, the millennium year, 189 United Nations member states, including Australia, gathered together
aiming to halve world poverty by the year 2015.
So our world leaders came up with a plan;
a blueprint for a better world.
The plan was made up of 8 life-changing goals
that would bring about freedom from poverty
for some of the world's poorest people;
to create a world where poverty was history.
These goals became the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

4. Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs)

5. Goal 1

6. live in extreme poverty
1.4 billion people
live in extreme poverty

7. Halve the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 a day
Photo: Cindy Godden

8. 1 billion people
hunger
suffer from

9. Halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
Photo: Cindy Godden

10. Goal 2

11. 69 million children
are denied the right
to an education

12. Ensure that by 2015, all children will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
Photo: Maya Haviland

13. Goal 3

14. More girls
miss out on school
than boys

15. Ensure girls have the same access to schooling as boys
Photo: Cindy Godden

16. 70%
of the world’s poor
are women

17. Equality for women in employment
Photo:Cristiana Ximenes Belo

18. Goal 4

19. 8.1 million children
will die before
their 5th birthday

20. Reduce by two thirds the under-five mortality rate
Photo: Phillip Gibbs

21. Goal 5

22. from childbirth or pregnancy related causes
40 women die
every hour
from childbirth or pregnancy related causes

23. Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
Photo: Phillip Gibbs

24. Goal 6

25. were infected with HIV in 2008
2.7 million people
were infected with HIV in 2008

26. Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV by 2015
Photo: Sean Sprague

27. A person dies of malaria
every 30 seconds

28. Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases such as tuberculosis
Photo: Sean Sprague

29. Goal 7

30. 870 million people
don’t have access to
clean drinking water

31. 2.6 billion people don’t have access to basic sanitation
(such as a pit toilet)

32. Halve the proportion of people without access to improved water and sanitation facilities
Photo: Cindy Godden

33. Deforestation continues 13 million hectares per year
at an alarming rate -
13 million hectares per year
(roughly the land area of Bangladesh)

34. Reverse the loss of biodiversity and environmental resources
Photo: C. Lee

35. 828 million people
live in a slum

36. Achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020

37. Goal 8

38. Develop an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
Photo: Cindy Godden

39. Reduce debt burden

40. 0.7% How much of Australia’s Gross National Income
is needed to help achieve
the MDGs?
0.7%
That’s only 70c out of every $100

41. Some people will say we can’t afford to do it… I think we can’t afford not to do it.
Bono

42. Together we can
MAKE HISTORY

43. Photo: Cindy Godden

44. Together we can

45. Photo: Cindy Godden