The report, entitled Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water 2013 Update, warns that, at the current rate of progress, the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving the proportion of the 1990 population without sanitation will be missed by eight per cent – or half a billion people.
A recent UNICEF publication, "Progress for Children", reporting on progress made on primary education, shows that the current rate of progress in Nigeria is too slow to achieve gender parity by end 2005 and universal primary education by 2015, the target dates for Nigeria's achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals.
At the current rate of progress we may never know.
However, at the current rate of progress, the target will be missed by 2020.
At the current rate of progress, there would be a £10bn gap.
At the current rate of progress about 1.1kg of 238Pu will be made annually by 2021.
At the current rate of progress it would take over a year to reunite every child with their family.
At the current rate of progress, they will probably get round to joining in about the year 3000".
Cameron responded by arguing that on the current rate of progress Turkey was unlikely to join until the year 3000.
At the current rate of progress, it will take more than 100 years to achieve gender equality.
Describing the system as "chaotic", the MPs said the backlog would take 24 years to clear at the current rate of progress.
