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Official and Latin America and the Caribbean proposed MDG's targets and indicators for MDG2

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, form 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 2.A

Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

Target 3
2.1

Net enrolment ratio  in primary education

O
Preexistent
6
tic
2.2

Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach last grade of primary (2a)

O
Reformulated
7
tic
2.3

Literacy rate of 15-24 year-olds, women and men

O
Preexistent
8
tic
 

Illiteracy rate of population aged 15 years and over, by sex

P
-
-
tic
 

Net enrolment ratio in last grade of pre-primary education

P
-
-
-
 

Percentage of school attendance in last grade of pre-primary education of the population at the official pre-primary entrance age

P
-
-
-
 

Percentage of conclusion of low secondary education of population aged between 20-24

P
-
-
-
 

Net enrolment ratio in upper secondary education

P
-
-
tic
 

Percentage of attendance to upper secondary education of pupils at the corresponding school age

P
-
-
-
 

Literacy rate of population aged 25 and over

P
-
-
-
 

Percentage of primary conclusion of population aged 25 and over

P
-
-
-

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.

(2a)

Previous formulation of actual Indicators 2.3, previously indicator 7: Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach grade 5