Mapping the MDGs
The World Bank’s Private Sector Development Blog posted a new interactive map showing data on the Millennium Development Goals today–halfway to 2015. According to the monitor’s site,
The MDG Monitor is designed as a one-stop-shop for information on progress towards the [goals], globally and at the country level. It is intended as a tool for policymakers, development practitioners, journalists, students and others interested in learning about the Goals and tracking progress toward them.
On the pink-hued Maternal mortality map,clusters of fuchsia and burgundy across Africa and South Asia reinforce the importance of focusing on safe motherhood, and family planning, to meet the goals for 2015.
Even Brazil, with its growing economic strength, is dusty rose (260 per 100,000 live births), behind China’s pale pink (56 per 100,000 live births).
Also helpful to visualize development challenges lying ahead is this Progress Chart compiled from June 2007 statistics on progress towards meeting the goals.
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