The world has also met MDG7.c, to halve the proportion of people without access to drinking water.
Another target under MDG7 was to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water, by 2015.
Its key recommendations include setting goals to: Halve the proportion of people who earn less than two-thirds of median hourly pay.
The first millennium development goal, to halve the proportion of people living on less than $1.2575p5perper day, is a case in point.
Target 1.C of the MDGs is to halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger, between 1990 and 2015.
Last year, the education secretary, Damian Hinds, set out an ambition to halve the proportion of five-year-olds not meeting expected standards in such skills.
Mr. Annan stakes out worthy goals for the next 15 years: to halve the proportion of the world's people -- currently one in five -- whose income is less than a dollar a day, and to halve the proportion of people -- also one in five -- without access to safe drinking water.
The goals set targets to, for example, halve the proportion of people living below the poverty line (defined as $1.25 a day at 2005 purchasing power parities).
This standard was embodied in the first millennium development goal (to halve the proportion of the world living below that level).
The Millennium Development Goals' target to halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger is extremely important in southern Africa, where food security has become increasingly problematic over the last 20 years.
About 2.4 billion people still live without decent sanitation facilities, and the target in the millennium development goals to halve the proportion of the population without basic sanitation was missed by nearly 700 million people.
