Welcome to the United Nations site for the MDG Indicators
Welcome to the official MDG Indicators website. This site presents the official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for more than 60 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. The data and analyses are the product of the work of the
Inter-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) on MDG Indicators, coordinated by the United Nations Statistics Division. You will also find the official progress reports and documents produced by IAEG. Links to related sites and documents and constantly updated news will keep you up to date with the ongoing activities on MDG monitoring.
Important note: Some of the MDG data presented in this website have been adjusted by the responsible specialized agencies to ensure international comparability, in compliance with their shared mandate to assess progress towards the MDGs at the regional and global levels.
MDG Report 2009 launched - NEW!
The
Millennium
Development Goals Report 2009 was launched in Geneva by the Secretary-General on 6 July. The report,
which presents the yearly assessment of global progress towards the MDGs, is prepared by the Statistics
Division of DESA on the basis of inputs provided by the members of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on
MDG Indicators. Less than six years away from the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs), the report warns that despite many successes, overall progress has been too slow for most
of the targets to be met by 2015. And major advances in the fight against poverty and hunger have begun
to slow or even reverse as a result of the global economic and food crises.
The Report is also available in French and Spanish and will soon become available in the other
UN official languages.
Posted: Monday 06 Jul 2009 | 8:12 AM
MDG Progress Chart 2009 - NEW!
Most of the targets set for progress on the Millennium Development Goals are benchmarked for the
period 1990 to 2015 — promising clear and measurable improvement on standards prevailing in 1990 by the
end of 2015. The MDG Progress Chart 2009 provides an assessment of progress as of June 2009 towards a
number of the key targets relating to each Goal.
Posted: Monday 06 Jul 2009 | 8:10 AM
MDGInfo 2009 available online!
MDGInfo 2009 is available online. This database system is designed for the compilation and presentation of development indicators to support data users in their MDG monitoring. The MDG goals and targets are imbedded in the system linked to the MDG indicators in a goal monitoring framework.
MDGInfo has been adapted from DevInfo and presents country-level statistics available as of July 2009 for the global monitoring of progress achieved towards the MDGs since 1990.
Click here for the online version of MDGInfo 2009
To obtain further information please contact statistics@un.org.
Posted: Monday 06 Jul 2009 | 7:08 AM
MDG Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment - Progress Chart 2008
This progress chart presents data on some of the gender dimensions of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). The third of the MDGs calls explicitly for the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women. But each of the other goals has a gender dimension to it and gender equality is indispensable for achieving all goals. This chart is meant to show trends in some of the MDGs through a gender sensitive lens.
Posted: Thursday 11 Sep 2008 | 10:23 AM