Benefits from the UN development goals

The millennium development goals expire at the end of 2015, but what have they achieved?

South African children from the Zip Zap circus school perform during the World Aids Day concert in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town, South Africa Source: AAP

SUCCESS OF THE UN MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS:

* More than 1 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty since 1990.

* The primary school net enrolment rate in the developing regions has reached an estimated 91 per cent in 2015, up from 83 per cent in 2000.

* Two-thirds of countries in the developing regions have achieved gender parity in primary education.

* The global under-five mortality rate has declined by more than half, dropping from 90 to 43 deaths per 1000 live births between 1990 and 2015.

* Since 1990, the maternal mortality ratio has been cut nearly in half and most of the reduction has occurred since 2000.

* New HIV infections fell by 40 per cent between 2000 and 2013, from an estimated 3.5 million cases to 2.1 million.

* In 2015, 91 per cent of the global population uses an improved drinking water source, compared to 76 per cent in 1990.

* Aid from developed countries increased by 66 per cent in real terms between 2000 and 2014.

(Source: ACFID, United Nations)