The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were derived from the Millennium Declaration, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2000. Through the Declaration, world leaders forged a commitment to combat poverty, hunger and disease, provide education to all children and equal opportunities to both women and men, protect the environment, establish a global partnership for development, and to achieve these goals by 2015.

The MDGs provide a framework of time-bound goals and targets through which progress can be measured, using a baseline of 1990. This chart presents an assessment of progress towards selected targets on the basis of information available as of June 2013. The latest available data for most indicators refer to 2011 to 2013.