Aid policy: ten facts and figures from the 2011 Millennium Development Goals Report

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The poverty reduction goal can be met by 2015, with the number of people in developing countries living on less than US$1.25 a day expected to fall below 900 million (from 1.8 billion in 1990).
Sub-Saharan Africa has made the greatest strides in primary school enrolment, from 58 per cent in 1999 to 76 per cent in 2009; however, 32 million children are still out of school in the region, almost half the global total of 67 million.
The number of women in parliament is at a record high – 19.3 per cent from 11.6 per cent in 1995; Rwanda, Sweden, South Africa and Cuba topped the list. Belize, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Oman, Palau, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu have no female parliamentarians at all.
In all regions, a mother’s education is key to determining whether her children will turn five, with a child’s chances of survival rising markedly with a mother’s secondary or higher education.

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