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Mexico
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MDG Profile:
Civil society seeking an agenda centred on human rights
Two Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Reports have been published (April 2005 and November 2006), based chiefly on the contents of the National Human Development Reports. The Reports are available at www.objetivosdelmilenio.org.mx, Mexico’s official MDG website. Government commitment has been strong.
Following publication of the 2005 Report, the Inter-Ministerial Commission on Social Development, in which almost all ministries are represented, was given responsibility for all government-related, MDG follow-up activities. It is expected that this arrangement will continue under the current President.
The second Report includes a national leaders survey on the relevance of the MDGs to Mexico’s development and how to improve that relevance through inclusion of additional MDG Goals and targets. It outlines processes that could turn such an MDG-Plus platform into an organizing framework for Mexico’s development.
The Report also documents a cycle of academic seminars on the MDGs (one forum for each Goal), organized in collaboration with some of Mexico’s most prestigious institutions and with government support. The government’s programmes are analysed with a view to assessing their relevance to achievement of the Goals.
The national leaders survey, whose results were presented in May 2006, generated an unprecedented national dialogue. It became clear that much of civil society is seeking the construction of a national development agenda structured around issues such as growth with equity, poverty and inequality reduction, and human rights and the rule of law.
The priority of the government is to move from the initial, planning stage to a national MDG strategy focusing on Mexico’s ‘red flags’ (gender equality in political life, child malnutrition, maternal mortality, the state of the environment, and inequality in its various forms – financial, regional, and ethnic). MDG-Plus targets would pave the way to localization in a middle-income country that has already met several of the standard Goals and is on its way to reaching most of them by 2015 in terms of national averages. Last updated 1 November 2007 Click to learn more about organizations, projects and individuals on the ground from Scientists Without Borders.
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Total population
(millions): |
106.5 |
Surface area
(sq. km): |
1,958,201 |
GDP per capita
(PPP US$): |
11,532 |
GDP growth
(annual %): |
4.8
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Human Development Index
(Rank 1 - 177): |
53 |
Life expectancy at birth
(years): |
74.9 |
Population below PPP $1 per day
(%): |
3.0 |
Net enrolment ratio in primary education
(% both sexes): |
99.4 |
Carbon dioxide emissions per capita
(metric tons): |
4.2387 |
Unemployment, total
(% of total labor force): |
3.2 |
NOTE: The MDG data presented here is the latest available from the United Nations Statistics Division. The World Bank has recently released new poverty estimates, which reflect improvements in internationally comparable price data. The new data estimates set a new poverty line of US$1.25 a day and offer a much more accurate picture of the cost of living in developing countries. They are based on the results of the 2005 International Comparison Program (ICP), released in first half of 2008. Country-specific poverty estimates will be released by the World Bank in late 2008
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