Prospects - Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability

Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability



Target 7.A: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources Target 7.B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving by 2010 a significant reduction in the rate of loss Target 7.C: Halve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation Target 7.D: Have achieved a significant improvement by 2020 in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers CO2 emissions (per capita metric tons) Access to improved water source If Data Visualizer does not load within 10 seconds, please ensure JavaScript is enabled and Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.0 or greater is installed. If Data Visualizer does not load within 10 seconds, please ensure JavaScript is enabled and Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.0 or greater is installed. Sanitation In 1990 63 percent of the people living in low- and middle-income economies lacked access to a flush toilet orother form of improved sanitation. By 2010 the access rate had improved by 19 percentage points to 44 percent. The situation is worse in rural areas, where 57 percent of the population lack access to improved sanitation. The large urban-rural disparity, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, is the principal reason the sanitation target of the Millennium Development Goals will not be achieved. Home GMR 2012 Topical Briefs (PDF) Aid Nutrition Poverty Trade Monitoring MDGs Hunger Education Gender Children Mothers Disease Environment Partnership Media Resources Feature Story Press Release Discuss this report More Resources MDG Database MDG Map Visualizer MDGs @ the World Bank Interactive Atlas IMF Outlook UN Resources