Official and Latin America and the Caribbean proposed MDG's targets and indicators for MDG1

Official MDG targets and indicators list published by the United Nations jointly with proposed MDG's targets and indicators proposed for Latin America and the Caribbean countries. These indicators have been suggested by ECLAC to measure the progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, from a regional perspective. Some of them are used as proxy of the official indicators, when there is no available data for the countries. Others were adapted to shed light on the specific needs of the region.

Additionally you will find here some official indicators that were eliminated or modified at the last revision of the MDG monitoring framework.

 
N Target/ Indicator

Official or proposed

Preexistent, Eliminated, modified or new*

Previous numeration*

Link to data

Target 1.A

Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day

Target 1

1.1

Proportion of population below $1 per day (1a)

O

Preexistent

1

 

Population living below the poverty and extreme poverty lines

P

-

-

 

Population without own individual income (by sex and age)

P

-

-

tic

 

Poverty femininity index

P

-

-

tic

1.2

Poverty gap ratio

O

Preexistent

2

tic
  Gini Index

P

-

-

 tic

 

Poverty Gap ratio based on national poverty lines

P

-

-

-

 

Poverty Gap ratio by sex of head of household

P

-

-

tic

 

Proportion of poor female-headed households

P

-

-

tic

1.3

Share of poorest quintile in national consumption

O

Preexistent

3

tic

 

Individual income distribution in quintiles by sex, population aged 15 years and over

P

-

-

tic

Target 1.B

Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people

New Target

1.4

Growth rate of GDP per person employed

O

New

-

-

1.5

Employment-to-population ratio

O

New

-

-

1.6

Proportion of employed people living below $1 (PPP) per day

O

New

-

-

1.7

Proportion of own-account and contributing family workers in total employment

O

New

-

-

 

Youth Unemployment rate, aged 15-24 years

O/E

-

45

-

Target 1.C

Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

Target 2

1.8

Prevalence of underweight children under-five years of age

O

Preexistent

4

tic

1.9

Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption

O

Preexistent

5

tic

Notes
* *Comparison between previous MDG Monitoring Framework reported to the General Assembly in it’s 59 session in 2004, and used in the Progress Reports since then, and the revised MDG Monitoring Framework approved by the General Assembly in it’s 62nd Session and effective since 15 January 2000.

(1a)

 For monitoring country poverty trends, indicators based on national poverty lines should be used, where available.