The Millennium Declaration set 2015 as the target date for achieving most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which established quantitative benchmarks to halve extreme poverty in all its forms. Each year the United Nations issues an MDG report presenting an annual assessment of the world's progress towards achieving these goals. The report is based on a master set of data compiled by an Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG Indicators led by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Untied Nations Secretariat.

The MDG Report 2009 states that more than halfway to the 2015 deadline to achieve the MDGs, major advances in the fight against poverty and hunger have begun to slow or even reverse as a result of the global economic and food crises. The report's assessment warns that despite many successes, overall progress has been too slow for most of the targets to be met by 2015.

The Countdown to 2015 Initiative tracks coverage levels for health interventions proven to reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality. It calls on governments and development partners to be accountable, identifies knowledge gaps and proposes new actions to reach Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. The Countdown Initiative is a supra-institutional collaborative effort of concerned individuals and partner organizations. This report contains the 2008 country profiles which present the most recent available information on selected demographic measures of maternal, newborn and child survival and nutritional status, coverage rates for priority interventions, and selected indicators of equity, policy support, human resources and financial flows.

Immunization Summary: A statistical reference containing data through 2007 is a reference book produced jointly by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO). It presents detailed statistics on the performance of national and district-level immunization systems in 194 countries and territories.

Immunization Summary: A statistical reference containing data through 2006 is a reference book produced jointly by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO). It presents detailed statistics on the performance of national and district-level immunization systems in UN member countries and territories.