Millennium Development Goal
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The Millennium Development Goals are targets that countries around the world agreed to pursue at a United Nations meeting in 2000 to improve conditions in areas like poverty, health, and education. They matter because they gave the international community a shared set of measurable objectives to work toward over the following years.
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The Millennium Development Goals were a UN initiative with a time span from 2000 to 2015.
In the United Nations, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were eight goals for international development by the year 2015 created following the Millennium Summit, following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration. These were based on the OECD DAC International Development Goals agreed by Development Ministers in the "Shaping the 21st Century Strategy". The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) succeeded the MDGs in 2016.