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indicator will fall to 12.5 per cent in 2005, less than half the level
recorded in 1990. Table 1.4.1 shows the relevant data for 1990, 1999
and 2005, derived from the United Nations. As the table shows, by
2005 the proportion living on less than US$1.00 in the developing
world as a whole had fallen to 25 per cent, from 42 per cent in 1990.
But it is apparent that progress has been uneven when viewed by
major world region (Table 1.4.1). While very substantial progress has
been made in the case of Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, and South-East
Asia, little progress has been recorded in the case of sub-Saharan
Africa, where over fifty per cent of the total population still live on less
than US$1.00 per day.
In much the same way, we can look at the likelihood that the MDG
targets will be met in the various developing world regions by the year
2015. This has been assessed by the Millennium Project, which is sup-
ported by the United Nations Development Programme (United Nations,
2010a), and the results are shown in Table 1.5.1. The 16 targets that can
be quantified have been assessed for the ten regions of the globe (see
Table 1.5.1). Of the total of 160 cases thereby identified, in 16 the target
has already been met or is very close to being met. In some 40 other
cases, it is expected that the target will be met by 2015. However, in
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Table 1.5.1
Progress with the Millennium Development Goals by Region by
2005
No
progress
Not
expected
Expected
Met or
close
Insufficient
data
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa
10
6
0
0
-
-
Southern Asia
2
12
2
0
South-east Asia
1
7
6
2
-
Eastern Asia
2
6
5
3
-
Latin America & the Caribbean
1
8
5
2
-
Western Asia
4
8
3
-
1
C.I.S. Europe
3
5
4
4
-
C.I.S. Asia
5
4
3
4
-
Oceania
6
5
3
-
2
North Africa
0
5
9
1
1
34
66
40
16
4
Source
: UNEP (2005a) The Millennium Development Project
