How close is the world to reaching the millennium development goals?

Universal education is one of the eight millennium development goals.

We are a long way from achieving the millennium development goals.

This site will track progress on the millennium development goals up to 2015.

However, there are important objectives and activities that go far beyond the millennium development goals.

It is the last major conference before the millennium development goals come up for renewal in 2015.

Link to this video Explore the other millennium development goals.

Where it's relevant, the data is organised by Millennium development goals too.

Debt relief is key to achieving the millennium development goals.

Known as the millennium development goals, they emerged from a United Nations conference five years ago.

There are only five years left until the target dates for the United Nations millennium development goals.

The first challenge consists of the so-called millennium development goals to eradicate world poverty.

"I'm not sure the other member states would want to see the millennium development goals dropped, or worse, expunged from the document."

There are estimated to be 1 billion disabled people globally, for whom the millennium development goals make no specific provision.

The millennium development goals do not feature as such in the mandates we have received from the European Council.

Achieving the millennium development goals should therefore be a priority of EU action in the region.

It works to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals for education.

Sport and physical education can contribute to attaining the Millennium Development Goals.

The fight against poverty and the Millennium Development Goals must continue to occupy centre stage.

That is unacceptable and puts at risk the Millennium Development Goals, which must be achieved.

"Their purpose is clear: to try to eliminate the momentum behind the millennium development goals and to wriggle free of the commitments they have made."

The Bush administration also tried to change summit documents to downplay references to the millennium development goals of overcoming poverty.

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Raising the ratio of girls to boys in education was one of the eight millennium development goals agreed by world leaders in 2000.