Module 12: Emerging Issues in Sociology of Population
  Lecture 40: Millennium Development Goals
 

TABLE 12.1: PROGRESS TOWARDS ACHIEVING MDGS IN INDIA

 

Indicator

Year

Value

Year

Value

MDG target value

1

Proportion of population below poverty line (%)

1990

37.5

1999-2000

26.1

18.75

2

Undernourished people as % of total population

1990

62.2

1999-2000

53

31.1

3

Proportion of under-nourished children

1990

54.8

1998

47

27.4

4

Literacy rate of 15-24 year olds

1990

64.3

2001

73.3

100

5

Ratio of girls to boys in primary education

1990-91

0.71

2000-01

0.78

1

6

Ratio of girls to boys in secondary education

1990-91

0.49

2000-01

0.63

1

7

Under five mortality rate

(per 1000 live births)

1988-92

125

1998-2002

98

41

8

Infant Mortality rate

(per 1000 live births)

1990

80

2003

60

27

9

Maternal Mortality rate

(per 1000 live births)

1991

437

1998

407

109

10

Population with sustainable access to an improved water source, rural (%)

1991

55.54

2005

90

80.5

11

Population with sustainable access to an improved water source, urban (%)

1991

81.38

2001

82.22

94

12

Population with access to sanitation urban (%)

1991

47

2001

63

72

13

Population with access to sanitation rural (%)

1991

9.48

2005

32.36

72

14

Deaths due to malaria per

100,000

1994

0.13

2004

0.09

-

15

Deaths due to TB per 100,000

 

1999

56

2003

33

-

16

Deaths due to HIV/AIDS

 

2000

471

2004

1114

-