Report: Comparing Sustainable Development Goals and Millennium Goals

This report provides a comparative analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It highlights the key differences between the two sets of global objectives, including the number of goals, their specific focus areas, and the countries that have made significant progress towards achieving them. The report examines the role of nations like India and China in meeting the MDGs and contrasts their successes with the challenges faced by countries like those in Africa. It references data on global poverty and discusses the factors contributing to the varying levels of achievement across different regions. The report also includes a discussion on the impact of the goals on improving living standards and addressing issues such as poverty, hunger, and health.

Compare the Sustainable
and Millennium
Development Goals between
countries

Sustainable development goals are the objectives which are adopted by all the countries
for the purpose of establishing prosperity and peach around the world. On the other hand,
millennium development goals are the set of eight different goals which are highly focused with
the improvement of lives of poorest individuals all around the world. For the purpose of meeting
them around 189 countries have signed millennium declaration (Gellers, 2016). The comparison
of both of them is as follows:
SDGs MDGs
There are 17 different sustainable development
goals which are adopted by united nations
members to develop peace and property for
world.
These are 8 differnet goals which are main
focused with making the world poverty free for
which different countries are continuously
trying as it helps to improve lives of
individuals.
The main factors which are focused by these
goals are no hunger and poverty, good
education, health and well being of individuals,
equality in gender, sanitation, decrement in
inequality, life on land, sustainable
communities and cities, affordable energy,
climate action, life below water, innovation in
industry and infrastructure, responsible
consumption and production etc.
The major components which are focused by
these goals are reduction of hunger and
poverty, achieve universal primary education,
women empowerment and gender equality,
improving maternal health, decrement in child
mortality, ensuring environmental
sustainability, combat to serious diseases such
as malaria, HIV Aids etc.
There are various countries which are doing better in achieving the MDGs and the central
role is played by India and China. These nations are having the higher number of population
around the world and both of them has responded poverty appropriately and contributed in the
attainment of MGDs. Africa was not able to meet the millennium development goals because of
the lower economic growth and high level of poverty. 40% of the population of Africa is living
in poverty and the level of it is extreme (Stuart and Woodroffe, 2016). In order to get
understanding of poverty all around the world the chart below could be analysed:
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Illustration 1: Poverty all around the world,
2019
(Source: Poverty all around the world, 2019)
From the above chart it has been analysed that the level of poverty is extreme world
wide. From all the countries the highest percentage of it is related to Africa and due to this the
nation is not able to meet the millennium development goals. Some of the countries such as
China and India have done better to reach MDGs so that they can improve standard of living of
all the individuals and facilitate them to live a better life. Almost 40% of the population of Africa
is living their life for less than $1.25 a day (Poverty all around the world, 2019). It shows that
the level of poverty in this country is extreme and the legal authorities are required to take strict
action against it so that the whole nation can fight against this serious issue.
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REFERNCES
Books and Journals:
Gellers, J. C., 2016. Crowdsourcing global governance: sustainable development goals, civil
society, and the pursuit of democratic legitimacy. International Environmental
Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics. 16(3). pp.415-432.
Stuart, E. and Woodroffe, J., 2016. Leaving no-one behind: can the Sustainable Development
Goals succeed where the Millennium Development Goals lacked?. Gender &
Development. 24(1). pp.69-81.
Online
Poverty all around the world. 2019. [Online]. Available through:
<https://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2015_MDG_Report/pdf/MDG%202015%20rev
%20(July%201).pdf>
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