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Millennium Development Goals (MDG's): How did we do?
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9th July 2015
In 2000 the United Nations declared 8 ambitious targets to improve the health and well-being of earth's citizens by 2015.
So how did the world do?
The outcome is detailed in the Millennium Development Goals report with exceptional coverage of the goals and their success or otherwise provided by the Guardian The Guardian: Millennium Development Goals.
The below infographics show some of the achievements.
MDG 1: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and poverty
MDG 2:
While the world has made great strides in a number of areas U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on the world to finish the job of the MDG's.
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