Millennium Development

Goals
Haseeb Tanveer
Millennium Development
Goals
MD Goal No. 1

By (200-06) the head count poverty in

Pakistan, though decreasing from 34%
to 22.3%, is lagging behind the target
of 13%.
The situation has really worsened in
the past 4 years is the proportion of
population below minimum level of
dietary energy consumption which
stood at 58% in 2010/11, owing to two
digit inflation over the last 4 years
which has significantly decreased the
purchasing power of the poor.
 MD Goal No. 2

The completion rate seems to have

declined rapidly in recent years
implying that more than a quarter of
the students enrolled in primary
schools do not complete their
education.
Pakistans literacy rate, though having
improved marginally over the years
remains considerably short of the MDG
target of 88% by 2015 at 58%, and
closer inspection reveals large gender
and rural/urban disparities.
 MD Goal No. 3

In the MDG area of promoting gender

equality and empowering women,
Pakistan has achieved one of the
highest ratios of women
parliamentarians in the South Asia
Region.
The proportion of women in the
national parliament stands at 22.2%.
 MD Goal No. 4

Pakistan has also achieved its target for

the proportion of children under five
who suffered from diarrhea in the last
month and received ORT
Pakistan stands among the worst
performers in child and infant mortality.
The number of deaths of children under
1 year of age per 1000 live births is 69
against the target of 40.