Goal 1Eradicateextreme poverty & hunger

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.

Conflict leaves many displaced and impoverished

• Increased number of refugees worldwide• Strong responsibility of the United Nations• Continuous violence and persecution

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 & theCaribbean

Northern Africa

Western

CIS

Transition countries ofSouth-Eastern Europe

Developed regions

Developing regions

Men

Women

Proportion of working-age population that is employed

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 & theCaribbean

CIS Asia

Western Asia

Transition countries ofSouth-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).

Half the world’s workforce toil in unstable, insecure jobs

0 50 100

Southern Asia

Oceania

Northern Africa

Latin America & theCarribbean

Developed regions

Developing regions

Men

Women

Proportion of own-account and contributing family workers in total employment, 2007, women and men (percentage)

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 -

Rising food prices threaten limited gains in alleviating child malnutrition

Children in developing countries who were underweight

0 20 40 60

Sub-Saharan Africa

Souhtern Asia

South Eastern Asia

Eastern Asia

Latin America & theCaribbean

Western Asia

Northern Africa

Developing regions

2006

1990