Millennium Development Goal regions and UNICEF regions
This site presents education statistics from the perspective of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG). The second of the eight Millennium Development Goals calls for universal primary education by 2015. The third MDG calls for the elimination of gender disparity in primary and secondary education by 2005 and at all levels of education by 2015. To monitor progress toward the eight MDG, the UN has divided all countries into ten regional groupings, shown in the map below. The list of countries within each region is available on the official UN site for the MDG indicators . The abbreviations in the map's legend stand for these regions: Developed countries (DEV) Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Eastern Asia (EA) South-eastern Asia (SEA) Oceania (OCE) Southern Asia (SA) Western Asia (WA) Northern Africa (NA) Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Millennium Development Goal regions Source: UN Statistics Division web site , August 2006 Futu...