Australia's current goal is a 40 per cent reduction in the per capita fatality rate over the decade to 2010.

Within a decade, the primary school enrolment rate had more than doubled to 70 per cent.

And, as you can see, the death rate goes down from 65,000 deaths per conflict per year in the 1950s to less than 2,000 deaths per conflict per year in this decade, as horrific as it is.

The standard numbers are that lifespans have been growing at between one and two years per decade.

Over the past decade, the infant mortality rate has been reduced from 126 to 60 deaths per 1,000 live births.

Ninety per cent of children under 5 were immunized against preventable diseases and infant mortality rates had fallen dramatically in the previous decade.

In the case of Africa, while it recorded a real annual growth in GDP of 4.6 per cent in 2004, the highest in almost a decade, this falls short of the 7 per cent per annum growth rate necessary for attaining the Millennium Development Goals.

The disaster confirmed a disturbing trend during the past decade the number of people killed by natural disasters has increased by almost 50 per cent.

In particular, exports of ICT products from developing countries grew at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23.5 per cent over the last decade, while exports from developed countries grew at a CAGR of 10.8 per cent.

Although this is the highest level of expenditure in the last decade, it represents only a modest increase of 3.4 per cent over 2003 ( 9.7 billion).

Ivan, the most powerful hurricane to hit the region in a decade, strengthened into category 4 as it struck Grenada, bringing sustained winds of 220 kilometres per hour.

The population growth in the past decade in most of the Parties was about 1.5 per cent annually on average, but was higher in a number of countries.

Recent estimates suggest that growth rates need to be doubled to about 7 to 8 per cent per annum and sustained for about a decade if Africa is to meet the Millennium Development Goals (with specific reference to Goal 1, on poverty reduction).

Over the past decade an increase in net enrolment in primary education has been achieved, and in 2001 almost 90 per cent of children were enrolled in primary schools.

This next decade is the decade of games.

Despite the good economic performance, there has also been no appreciable improvement in income poverty over the past decade, and approximately 36 per cent of Mongolians still live under the poverty line.

Also recalls decision 2002 14 on the Brussels Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the decade 2000 2010, and reiterates that allocations from TRAC 1.1.1. and 1.1.2 to least developed countries should be fixed at a minimum of 60 per cent, and, for low income countries, at a range between 85 per cent and 91 per cent

It was estimated that manufactured water resources, the keystone of sustainable water management for Israel and the region, would account for 55 per cent of water resources by the end of the decade.

In the last 15 years, India has pulled more people out of poverty than in the previous 45 roughly 10 million people per year on average in the last decade. The country has visibly prospered, and, despite population growth, per capita income has grown faster, and to a greater level, than ever before.

Given the difficulty of reversing these trends, it is difficult to imagine how China could maintain a growth rate anywhere close to 10 for another decade, despite its low per capita income. But there is more.

The Looming Lost Decade

The Sino American Decade

Accordingly, sub Saharan Africa, in particular, is off track in meeting the Millennium Development Goals, with the number of people living in absolute poverty in Africa having grown by about 40 per cent over the past decade.

Developing countries constituted the fastest growing sector of the world economy in 2003 2004, continuing a two decade trend that has raised their share of world trade from 20 to 30 per cent of the world total.

The aggregate numbers are absolutely overwhelming 1.3 million people a week coming to town, decade after decade.

The progress made in Guatemala during the first Decade would help make the Second Decade more successful.

This omission has persisted even as the aggregate volume of procurement activities by the United Nations system has increased considerably in the past decade to represent up to 37 per cent of the organizations' combined expenditures in 2002.

The paradox here is that the last decade probably was a lost decade for making progress on this.

That's just a decade away.

The Middle East s Lost Decade

Europe s Lost and Found Decade

13 45 per person per year are required to meet basic infrastructural needs, 30 per person per year for basic health needs, 15 per person per year for basic education, and 10 per person per year for other high priority items.

The Niger receives just 20 per inhabitant per year, which equals 1.60 per person per month.

Once nearly the economic equal of Germany, France has fallen well behind over the past decade, with per capita GDP now about 10 lower. France may punch above its weight politically, but it punches far below its weight economically.

And the paradox is that the decade before the last decade was so promising and for one reason primarily.

Of the required 100 per person per year, 40 per person per year can reasonably be covered by domestic resource mobilization while 60 per person per year would require international assistance.

The Secretary General reports that secondary school gross enrolments on a global level increased from 56 to 78 per cent in the last decade and that tertiary enrolment rates increased worldwide from 69 million in 1990 to 88 million in 1997.

Global economic expansion was not only the highest for more than a decade, it was also extraordinarily broad based, with all major regions of the world except the European Union reporting real GDP growth of more than 3.5 per cent.

Energy systems of the world becoming progressively year on year, decade on decade, century on century becoming less carbon intense.

Because while the last decade was the decade of social and the decade of where the framework in which we connect with other people was built, this next decade will be the decade where the game framework is built, where the motivations that we use to actually influence behavior, and the framework in which that is constructed, is decided upon, and that's really important.

(a) To promote the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and the International Decade for Action, Water for Life

The female population is 25.8 per cent urban, 31.13 per cent suburban and 43 per cent rural, while the male population is 25.28 per cent urban, 32.02 per cent suburban and 42.71 per cent rural.

Kosovo wide billings and collections by publicly owned enterprises are increasing, approaching 100 per cent for PTK (collections up 5 per cent to 70 per cent) 84 per cent for water sector utilities (collections up 15 per cent to 50 per cent) 60 per cent for KEK (collections 32 per cent).

China s GDP will almost certainly surpass that of the US within a decade, owing to the size of its population and its impressive economic growth rate. But, measured by per capita income, China will not equal the US for decades, if then.

This means that 40 or 45 percent of all school aged children could be insulin dependent within a decade. Within a decade.