The Millennium Development Goals are an ambitious agenda for reducing poverty and improving lives that world leaders agreed on at the Millennium Summit in September 2000. For each goal one or more targets have been set, most for 2015, using 1990 as a benchmark.

Goal 2 and part of Goal 3 are about Literacy.

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education

Target 3: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

Indicators

6. Net enrolment ratio in primary education

7. Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach grade 5

8. Literacy rate of 15-24 year olds

Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and to all levels of education no later than 2015

 Indicators

9. Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education

10. Ratio of literate females to males of 15-24 year olds

 

Status of Bangladesh

 

	Bangladesh MDGs Status At A Glance (Goal 1, Goal 2 & Goal 3) Millennium Development Goals Bangladesh Progress Report February 2005 Jointly prepared by the Government of Bangladesh and the United Nations Country Team in Bangladesh
	Bangladesh Progress Report (Goal 2 & Goal 3) Millennium Development Goals Bangladesh Progress Report February 2005 Jointly prepared by the Government of Bangladesh and the United Nations Country Team in Bangladesh

 

Data

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education Target 3: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling	Data Collected from MIMAP of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies Data Collected from Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics (BANBEIS) Data Collected from Medium Term Policy Framework : Education Sector Development Support (IDA Assisted) Data Collected from Unicef and World Bank Data Collected from UN Statistical Division
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and to all levels of education no later than 2015	Data Collected from MIMAP of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies Data Collected from Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) & Bangladesh Election Commission Data Collected from UN Statistical Division