Target 1: Halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty between 1990 and 2015

• Extreme poverty, as measured in terms of subsistence incidence (core poor), fell slightly from 15.8 percent (2000) to 13.8 percent (2003) of the population.

• In terms of families, the decline was from 12.3 percent to 10.4 percent. In terms of overall poverty incidence (2003), 30.4 percent of Filipinos were considered income poor, down from 33.7 percent in 2000.

Target 2: Halve the proportion of population below the minimum level of dietary energy consumption and halve the proportion of underweight children (under five years old)

• The proportion of Filipino households with per capita intake below 100 percent dietary 
energy  requirement decreased from 69.4 percent (1993) to 56.9 percent (2003).

• The prevalence of underweight preschool children declined from 30.6 percent (2001)
to 27.6 percent (2003).

Target 8: Halt and reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015

• The cumulative number of HIV/Ab seropositive cases increased from 1,451 in 2000 to 2,200 in 2004; despite the increase, the prevalence rate remains below one percent. However, the presence of preconditions for a full-blown epidemic was noted, and the Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) describes the epidemic to be hidden and growing.

Target 9: Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases by 2015

• Malaria morbidity rate fell from 72 cases per 100,000 population (1998) to 48 cases per 100,000 population (2002). Malaria mortality rate also fell, from 0.7 deaths per 100,000 population (1997) to 0.11 deaths per 100,000 population (2002).

• Incidence of tuberculosis (the sixth leading cause of death and morbidity in 2001), slightly declined: from 39 deaths per 100,00 population (1995) to 38 deaths per 100,000 population (2001); morbidity rate also fell from 173 cases per 100,000 population (1995) to 142 cases per 100,000 population (2001).

Target 10: Implement national strategies for sustainable development by 2005, to reverse the loss of environmental resources by 2015

• At 7.2 million hectares, total forest cover (2004) is 24 percent of the country's total land area, 11 percent higher than the 1988 forest area of 6.5 million hectares; however, other indicators (e.g., status of watershed forest reserves) show urgent need for massive reforestation.

• Recognized as one of 17 megadiverse countries in the world (which collectively hold 70 percent of the world's total flora and fauna biodiversity), the Philippines hosts 52,000 species, with about 13,500 plant species that make up five percent of the world's total. However, they remain among the most threatened in the world.

Target 11: Halve the proportion of people with no access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, or those who cannot afford it, by 2015

• Household access to safe water supply rose slightly from 78.69 percent (2000) to 80 percent (2002); households with sanitary toilet facility also rose from 81.97 percent (2000) to 86 percent (2002).

Target 12: Achieve a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020

• In 2002, government estimated that there were 588,853 informal settler families/squatter households nationwide, 51 percent of which were in the National Capital Region; government and private sector efforts provided security of tenure/shelter security units to 382,285 households from 2001 to 2004.

Target 13: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system; include a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction-both nationally and internationally

• Posting moderate economic growth over the 2001-2004 period (with average expansion rates of five percent for GNP and four percent for GDP), the Philippines did not post significant increases in other relevant ratios and indicators (e.g., investment-to-GDP ratio, foreign direct investments and gross domestic savings-to-GDP ratio), and slid in the Global Competitiveness Ranking.

• Major policies and programs were continually pushed to improve trade financial performance; critical reforms were made for trade promotion; enterprise development was pushed further; and, in the non-bank financial system, three laws to help further stabilize the country's financial position were passed.

Target 14: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debts sustainable in the long term

• As government debt ballooned to PhP3.81 trillion (2004), debt servicing took almost one-third of the 2004 budget pie, while the proportion of national government's social expenditure to GDP declined from 6.35 percent (2000) to 5.1 percent (2004). One-third of total official development assistance (ODA) loans went to social services (2001-2003), helping cover the shortfall.

Target 15: Provide access to affordable essential drugs, in cooperation with pharmaceutical companies

• Drug prices in the country have been documented to be among the highest in the ASEAN. Based on the 1999 estimates of the World Health Organization (WHO), only 66 percent of the country's population has access to essential drugs.