Africa Knowledge Management Portal
Informing health decisions and actions
Description
The year 2015 is when the world aimed to achieve many of the targets set out in the Millennium Development Goals. Some have been met. The rate of extreme poverty and the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water were both halved between 1990 and 2010, fi ve years ahead of schedule. But some targets have not been achiev ed, and the aggregates used to measure global trends can mask the uneven progress in some regions and countries. This edition of World Development Indicators uses the latest available data and forecast