First development Goal in Colombia

Laura Liliana Gómez Espíndola

The progress of the first goal in Colombia

Millenium development Goals

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Progress by Goal in Colombia

source: http://www.mdgmonitor.org/country_progress.cfm?c=COL&cd=170

Extreme PovertyColombia in the world

Source: http://devdata.worldbank.org/atlas-mdg/

Poverty and extreme povertyColombia in Latinamerica 2001 to 2007

COLOMBIA Years            

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

National              

Poverty ... 51.1... 51.1 46.8... ...

Extreme poverty ... 24.6... 24.2 20.2... ...

LATIN AMERICA Years            

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

National              

Poverty 43.2 44 44.2 42 39.8 36.5 34.1

Extreme poverty 18.5 19.4 19.1 16.9 15.4 13.4 12.6

First Millennium Development GoalEradicate extreme poverty and hungerColombia

Table 1: Poverty and extreme poverty in Colombia 1991-2005

Table 2: proportion of people below US$1 and $2 per day. 1996-2005

Table 3: proportion of underwight children under 5 years. 1965-2000

Table 4: Proportion of the population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption

Dinner with a group of homeless children in México

They are my inspiration to work for poor children in the world.