Millennium Development Goals

Lesotho vs. Mongolia Kelsey Johnson & Kyle Dillon

What are they?

Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger Lesotho Mongolia

Multidimensional Poverty o based on data on household deprivation in education, health, and living standards

Comparatively, only 15.8% of the population in Mongolia live in this category of multidimensional poverty This is less than half of the percentage of Lesothos population.

35.3% of people in Lesotho are living in multidimensional poverty

Achieve Universal Primary Education

Lesotho Mongolia

Mean years of Schooling o calculated by the average number of years of education received by people 25 and older.

The mean years of schooling is 8.3 years This is approximately 2.5 years more than Lesotho

5.9 years is the mean which is pretty good but, the expected years of

However, there Mongolia is still not at the expected 9.6 years so Mongolia has some

Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women Lesotho Mongolia

Gender Inequality Index o Measure reflecting inequality between men and women in reproductive health, empowerment and labour market Score 0.534

The lower the score is the greater the equality is between genders Score 0.328

While this is slightly greater than Lesotho, there is still room to get better

Reduce Child Mortality

Lesotho Mongolia

Child Mortality o Calculated by the probability of dying between birth and age 5 85 children out of every 1,000 live births will die between birth and the age of 5

32 children out of every 1,000 live births will die between birth and the age of 5 in Mongolia This is less than half of those in Lesotho but this number could still go down

Improve Maternal Health

Lesotho Mongolia

Maternal Death Rate o the number of women whose death is related to or aggravated by pregnancy

63 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births per year While this number could go down, it is a fraction of the maternal deaths in Lesotho

620 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births per year

Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases Lesotho Mongolia

HIV/AIDS prevalence ages 15-49 Lesotho has the second highest percentage at 23.1%

Less than .01% of Mongolias population has HIV/AIDS This is spectacular compared to Lesothos percentage

Ensure Environmental Stability

Lesotho Mongolia

One of the indicators is the percent of population with access to clean water 78% have access to clean water in Lesotho

Unlike in most of the other Millenium Development Goals, Mongolia is worse off in this category than Lesotho Only 60% have access to clean drinking water

Global Partnership for Development

Lesotho Mongolia

One of the targets of this goal is making new technology such as phones available. There are 47.3 fixed and mobile telephone subscribers per 100 people.

There are 98.1 fixed and mobile telephone subscribers per 100 people This is astronomical given that Mongolia is considered a developing country

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