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Millenium Development Goals Introduction Video

Welcome! It is time to Shake the World. How? By joining the global Shake the World movement to support the Millennium Development Goals. These are the eight goals set by the UN in september 2000 to reduce poverty by half by the year 2015. Five years to go, eight goals to achieve, time to shake the world!

Looking for after the MDGs

Look here for key messages from around the world about the four pillars for development goals Beyond 2015.

Despite substantial progress, the world is still falling short of the MDG child mortality target.

The United Nations Millennium Campaign, along with many partners within the United Nations as well as Civil Society Stakeholders are now looking at prospects for the Post-2015 agenda. As we look towards the year 2015, we will make make one final push to achieve the MDGs, seriously review the experience had with development goals since 2000 and strive to help create a more inclusive and holistic set of goals post-2015.

Currently, about 26,000 children under five die each day, mostly frompreventable causes.

Water scarcity already affects every continent. Around 1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world's population, live in areas of physical scarcity, and 500 million people are approaching this situation. Another 1.6 billion people, or almost one quarter of the world's population, face economic water shortage (where countries lack the necessary infrastructure to take water from rivers and aquifers). The way water scarcity issues are addressed impacts upon the successful achievement of most of the Millennium Development Goals.

Infographic on the inter-disciplinary impact of education.

3.1 Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education 3.2 Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector 3.3 Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament

The latest Unicef state of the world's children report is out, with a special focus on adolescents. So, how do the world's teenagers compare?* Get the data* Search the MDG data. Read more about the report Children are unambiguously the focus of the millennium development goals (MDGs). But what happens when they grow up?