Millennium Development Goals

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
-          The challenge is to develop a national indicator for deprivation or poverty which is accepted by the whole community, particularly those in the urban areas and in the provincial islands.
 -          No data available on prevalence of poverty, poverty depth or inequality measures (although a household economic survey is planned for late 2004)
 -          Available economic and social data suggest the poverty situation to be increasing, new vulnerable groups are emerging e.g. those displaced by the ethnic conflict, the unemployed and the youth, and significant inequalities existed between urban (4 times higher) and rural income

Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day
1. Proportion of population below $1 (PPP) per day
2. Poverty gap ratio (PGR) [incidence x depth of poverty]

• Information is not available and a household economic (income and expenditure) survey is required to collect this information 

Target 2: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
4. Prevalence of underweight children under-five years of age  1986:  21%           1990 23% (SB HDR 2002)

• A nutrition survey is required to measure progress against this indicator, with approximately 1 in 5 children under five years old being underweight in 1990. 

5. Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption

• Information is not available and a nutrition survey is required to collect this information