Millenium Development Goals
Overview
Project looks at statistics on the general development of countries around the world based on data provided by the World Bank. In general, this project examines
the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for the year 2015 and the current Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the year 2030.
Team members: Samuel Oh, Andrew Siew, Rebecca Bol, Famus Xie, Kevin Jeong
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were eight international development goals for the year 2015 that had been established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) replaced the MDGs in 2016.
All 191 United Nations member states, and at least 22 international organizations, committed to help achieve the following Millennium Development Goals by 2015:
1) To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2) To achieve universal primary education
3) To promote gender equality and empower women
4) To reduce child mortality
5) To improve maternal health
6) To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
7) To ensure environmental sustainability
8) To develop a global partnership for development
The Millennium Development Goals are a UN initiative.
Each goal had specific targets, and dates for achieving those targets. The 8 goals were measured by 21 targets. To accelerate progress, the G8 finance ministers agreed in June 2005 to provide enough funds to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to cancel $40 to $55 billion in debt owed by members of the heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) to allow them to redirect resources to programs for improving health and education and for alleviating poverty.
In the world view you will see a map and you can select one of the development goals to view. Selecting a data set to view will create a heat map on the data set.
Countries without that data will show as grey on the map.
There will be 3 charts you can look at to observe general trends and compare between countries.
The pie charts will show comparison of statisitics between countries for the given year you chose.
The line and bar graphs show the comparison of statisitics overtime from the year you chose to 5 years later.