Kingdom of Bahrain

The MDGs are 8 goals to be achieved by 2015 that were introduced to address the varied development challenges confronting the world today. With the UN Millennium Declaration, 189 nations took the first step towards reducing the burden of poverty that prevents people, irrespective of color or creed to reach their full potential. The 8 MDGs break down into 18 quantifiable targets that are measured by 48 indicators.

The government of the Kingdom of Bahrain has embraced this challenge and the present MDG report reveals that Bahrain has made significant progress towards achieving the MDGs. Bahrain is potentially on track on all of the MDGs. For example, based on the indicator of people living under US$ 1 per day, Bahrain does not suffer from extreme poverty. Growing unemployment however is a key challenge to policymakers. In the past the Kingdom has worked on a number programmes including a pilot microfinance projects with UNDP to address this issue. Refer to MDG on the menu above for a breakdown on Bahrain’s progress towards achieving the MDGs.