1. Goal 1
Eradicate
extreme poverty
& hunger

2. High food prices may push 100
million people deeper into poverty
• Cost of living in developing countries
• Increased prices of commodities
• Increases in the price of food, increasing
of poverty.

3. Conflict leaves many displaced and
impoverished
• Increased number of refugees worldwide
• Strong responsibility of the United Nations
• Continuous violence and persecution

4. Full employment remains a distant
possibility
Achieving full and
productive employment
and decent work for all,
including women and
young people.
0 50 100
Sub-Saharan Africa
Eastern Asia
South-Eastern Asia
Southern Asia
Oceania
Latin America & the
Caribbean
Northern Africa
Western
CIS
Transition countries of
South-Eastern Europe
Developed regions
Developing regions
Men
Women
Proportion of working-age population that is employed

5. Low-paying jobs leave one in five developing
country workers mired in poverty
0 20 40 60
Sub-Saharan Africa
Souhtern Asia
Oceania
South Eastern Asia
Eastern Asia
Latin America & the
Caribbean
CIS Asia
Western Asia
Transition countries of
South-Eastern Europe
Northern Africa
CIS Europe
Developed regions
Developing regions
2007
1997
Proportion of emplyed people living below $1(PPP) a
day, 1997 and 2007(percentage).

6. Half the world’s workforce toil in
unstable, insecure jobs
0 50 100
Southern Asia
Oceania
Northern Africa
Latin America & the
Carribbean
Developed regions
Developing regions
Men
Women
Proportion of own-account and contributing
family workers in total employment, 2007,
women and men (percentage)

7. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the
proportion of people who suffer from
hunger
• Progress in reducing hunger is now being
eroded by worldwide increased food prices
• The poor are most affected by increasing food
prices
• High-Level Conference on World Food Security -
Rome, June 2008 -

8. Rising food prices threaten limited gains
in alleviating child malnutrition

9. Children in developing countries who were
underweight
0 20 40 60
Sub-Saharan Africa
Souhtern Asia
South Eastern Asia
Eastern Asia
Latin America & the
Caribbean
Western Asia
Northern Africa
Developing regions
2006
1990

10. Children in developing countries who were
underweight
0 20 40 60
Sub-Saharan Africa
Souhtern Asia
South Eastern Asia
Eastern Asia
Latin America & the
Caribbean
Western Asia
Northern Africa
Developing regions
2006
1990