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		Samoa Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Samoa recorgnises the important role which the MDGs play in the national development of the country. As indicated here, there is yet a proper work needed to be done to be able to come up with a correct an complete MDG status of the country. What is shown here is information obtained from the SPC MDG website in which a lot of the indicators were sourced from external sources.

The Samoa Statistics Division will continue to work very closely with SPC and other regional agencies with the view that a proper MDG report including more recent inmdicators be made in the near future.

Goal One: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Indicators	Year	Value	Unit	Note	Source
Proportion of Households below $1 (PPP) per day	2002	5.5	%	% population income	ADB
Poverty Gap Ration (PGR) incidence x depth of poverty	2002	6.6	ratio		ADB
Share of poorest quintile (20%) in national income	2002	6.2	% total consumption		ADB
Prevalence of under-weight children under 5 years of age	1997	17	% under 5 yrs		ADB

Goal Two: Achieve universal primary education

Indicators	Year	Value	Unit	Note	Source
Literacy rate of 15-24 year-olds	1991	96	Rate per 100	indirect, all adults	Pacific Human Development Report, 1999

Goal Three: promote gender equality and empower women

Indicators	Year	Value	Unit	Note	Source
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament	2001	6.1	% seats		UNIFEM
Ratio of girls to boys in tertiary education (USP enrolments)	2003	1.2	ratio of girls per 100 boys		USP

Goal Four: Reduce child mortality

Indicators	Year	Value	Unit	Note	Source
Under-five mortality rate (CMR)	2002	25	per 1,000 live births		UN Human Development Report 2003
Infant mortality rate (IMR)	2000	17.8	per 1,000 live births		Samoa Department of Statistics
Proportion of 1 year-old children immunised against measles, percent	2002	99	% children under 1 year		UN Human Development Report 2003

Goal Six: Combat HIV-Aids, Malaria and other diseases

Indicators	Year	Value	Unit	Note	Source
TB incidence rate per 100,000 population	2002	18.29	(incidence) per 100,000 persons	TB incidence not prevalence	SPC
TB death rate per 100,000 population	2002	1.1	per 100,000 persons		WHO
Tuberculosis, DOTS detection rate, per cent total population	2002	56	% population (new ss+)		SPC
Tuberculosis, DOTS treatment success, per cent total population	2000	92.3	% new cases		WHO

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Goal Seven: Ensure environmental sustainability

Indicators	Year	Value	Unit	Note	Source
Proportion of households with sustainable access to an improved water source, urban and rural	2001	88.62049525	% (households) population		Samoa Department of Statistics
Proportion of households with sustainable access to an improved water source, urban	2001	91.60852348	% (households) population		Samoa Department of Statistics
Proportion of households with sustainable access to an improved water source, rural	2001	87.72809191	% (households) population		Samoa Department of Statistics
Proportion of urban and rural households with access to improved sanitation	2001	99.97831666	% (households) population		Samoa Department of Statistics
Proportion of urban households with access to improved sanitation	2001	100	% (households) population		Samoa Department of Statistics
Proportion of rural households with access to improved sanitation	2001	99.9718405	% (households) population		Samoa Department of Statistics
Proportion of land area covered by forest	1996-2003	35.2	% land area	% of land covered by forest (excluding forest plantation)
Ratio of area protected to maintain biological diversity to surface area	2003	4.04	% land (marine) area	Protected areas: terrestrial areas with active and inactive management. Marine and costal protected areas are not included in the data	Conservation international, July 2003
Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), metric tons, per capita	2002	0.81	metric tons per capita	Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the Consumption and Flaring of fossil fuels	Energy Information Administration, International Energy Annual 2002
Consumption of ozone-depleting CFCs (ODP tons)	2000	1	tons	Consumption defined as production plus imports minus exports of ozone depleting CFCs	UNEP Ozone Secretariat
Proportion of households using solid fuels	2001	62.88400711	% (households) population		Samoa Department of Statistics

Goal eight: Develop a global partnership for development

Indicators	Year	Value	Unit	Note	Source
ODA received in small island developing States as proportion of their GNIs	2002	14.52	ODA as % of GNI		OECD
Debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and services	2000	10.8	% exports		ADB
Unemployment rate of 15-24 year-olds, female	2001	15.43	% labour force	Labor force includes: Paid and unpaid workers	National Population and Housing Census
Unemployment rate of 15-24 year-olds, male	2001	10.62	% labour force	Labor force includes: Paid and unpaid workers	National Population and Housing Census
Unemployment rate of 15-24 year-olds, total	2001	12.22	% labour force	Labor force includes: Paid and unpaid workers	National Population and Housing Census

Source: MDG website, SPC