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Paraguay
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MDG Profile:
Strong programmes attack extreme poverty
Paraguay took an important step with regard to country commitment to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) when it established intermediate goals in 2004. These were made official through their incorporation into the National Poverty Reduction Strategy (ENLP in its Spanish acronym), approved by the Government at the end of 2006. These intermediate goals establish objectives that must be achieved by 2008 to ensure that Paraguay will be on track to achieve the MDGs. They serve as a baseline for evaluating progress achieved with respect to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy.
As is the case with other countries in the region, Paraguay is in a position to achieve the objectives relating to education and gender equity in education. At the end of 2005, following the successful examples of Brazil, Chile, and Mexico, ambitious new programmes were initiated, designed to benefit a large percentage of the population living in conditions of extreme poverty.
One of these initiatives, the Tekopara programme, benefits approximately 9,000 families (representing approximately 50,000 individuals) and is intended to reach 35,000 households by 2008. In Paraguay, where it is estimated that around 1 million people are living in extreme poverty, this programme has the potential to make a significant impact, by providing almost 20 per cent of the group at risk with the opportunity to emerge from extreme poverty by the year 2008. If progress is maintained, Paraguay will achieve the intermediate goals formalized in its National Poverty Reduction Strategy in relation to the MDGs and will be on track to achieve the Goal of eradicating extreme poverty set for 2015. 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): |
6.1 |
Surface area
(sq. km): |
406,752 |
GDP per capita
(PPP US$): |
5,054 |
GDP growth
(annual %): |
3.9
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Human Development Index
(Rank 1 - 177): |
91 |
Life expectancy at birth
(years): |
70.8 |
Population below PPP $1 per day
(%): |
13.6 |
Net enrolment ratio in primary education
(% both sexes): |
94.9 |
Carbon dioxide emissions per capita
(metric tons): |
0.7215 |
Unemployment, total
(% of total labor force): |
8.1 |
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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