| |  Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger |
Targets: | 1- Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day
2- Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger |
Progress In Saudi Arabia: | In Saudi Arabia, the percentage of families living under extreme poverty was 1.63% in 2005, and the prevalence of underweight children under 5 years of age increased from 5.1% in 2000 to 6.4% in 2004. |
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|  Achieve Universal Primary Education
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Targets: | 3- Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling |
Progress In Saudi Arabia: | With regards to the second goal, the net enrolment ratio in primary education in the Kingdom has significantly increased from 84.5% in 1990 to 92.8% in 2006; the percentage of pupils who start grade 1 and reach grade 5 has also increased from 74.5% in 1990 to 98.2% in 2006; and the literacy rate of 15-24 year olds has gone up remarkably from 85.9% in 1990 to 96.5 in 2006. |
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|  Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women |
Targets: | 4- Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015 |
Progress In Saudi Arabia: | As for promoting gender quality and empowering women in Saudi Arabia where girls' education only started in the 60s, the 2007 report indicates that the ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary, and tertiary education rose from 85.1 in 1990 to 95.4 in 2006; the ratio of literate women to men 15-24 year olds was 73.7 in 1990 and became 92.7 in 2006; and until the end of 1992 the rate of women's participation in the labor market was 5.4% increasing to 15.0% in 2006. |
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|  Reduce Child Mortality |
Targets: | 5- Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five |
Progress In Saudi Arabia: | With respect to the fourth goal on reducing child mortality rate, Saudi Arabia has witnessed great drops whereby its under-five mortality rate went from 44 per 1000 in 1990 to 21.7 per 1000 in 2006; its infant mortality rate declined from 34 per thousand live births in 1990 to 18.6 per thousand live births in 2006; and the proportion of 1year-old children immunized against measles grew from 88.2% in 1990 to 95.2% in 2006 and is expected to reach 98% in 2009. |
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|  Improve Maternal Health
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Targets: | 6- Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio |
Progress In Saudi Arabia: | Reducing maternal mortality rate is another goal that is close to being achieved by Saudi Arabia. The MDGs report of 2007 shows that maternal mortality rate used to be 48 per 100,000 live births in 1990 and has dropped to 14.6 per 100,000 live births in 2006. Moreover, the proportion of births attended by skilled health professionals increased from 88% in 1990 to 96% in 2005. |
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|  Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other Diseases
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Targets: | 7- Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
8- Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases |
Progress In Saudi Arabia | Regarding HIV/AIDS and Malaria, Saudi Arabia is taking serious measures to halt and reverse their spread; however the report indicates that the cumulative number of HIV/AIDS reported cases was 2658 cases in 2006. As for Malaria, its incidence has decreased substantially from 125 cases per 100,000 people in 1990 to 4.45 per 100,000 people in 2006 . The Kingdom is expected to be free of Malaria in 2015. Similarly, it has achieved remarkable success with Tuberculosis incidence falling from 11.5 cases per 100,000 population in 1995 to 10.8 in 2006. |
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|  Ensure Environmental Sustainability |
Targets: | 9- Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources
10- Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
11- Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020 |
Progress In Saudi Arabia: | In line with the MDGs commitment, the 8th national development plan (2005-2009) emphasized protection of the environment from pollution and conservation and development of wildlife, as well as conservation of natural resources and rationalization of their utilization. The MDGs report shows that the areas protected to maintain biological diversity to surface areas in Saudi Arabia increased from 3.3% in 1990 to 4.1% in 2006. The proportion of urban and rural population with sustainable access to safe drinking water increased from 94.2% in 1990 to 95.0 in 2006. |
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|  Develop a Global Partnership for Development |
Targets: | 12- Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally
13- Address the least developed countries’ special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction
14- Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States
15- Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term
16- In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth
17- In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
18- In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies—especially information and communications technologies |
Progress In Saudi Arabia: | Finally, the Kingdom is a major partner in international development whereby aid provided by it to the developing countries totaled more than $87.0 billion over 1973-2006. The ratio of foreign aid to GDP was estimated at 6.0% in previous years and has averaged about 4% of GDP over the past decade. More than $6 billion of poor-country debts to the Kingdom have been cancelled. |
