MDG 1 Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger



• 46.5% of the population in Sudan lives below the poverty line in Northern Sudan compare to 50.6% in southern Sudan, figures translating the fact that in each two persons living in Sudan one is poor.
• Southern Sudan, a region long-affected by conflict and by the lack of development efforts, expectedly has visibly high levels of poverty among the population.
• Poverty rates vary significantly between states – from three in four people in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state (75.6%) to only one in four people in Upper Nile state (25.7%).
• Employed to population ratio reported 39.5% based on populations at working age category (15-59). Unemployment rate among (15 -59 years) is 17 %. Youth (15-24) unemployment rate is 25.4%.
• MDER (daily minimum dietary energy requirement) per person in Sudan was 1751 Kcals.
• In northern Sudan, the proportion of the population below the minimum level of dietary consumption is estimated at 31.5%.
• The percentage in urban areas is almost similar to the rural areas 31% and 34% respectively.
• Across the Northern states, the level of food deprivation varies significantly. It registered 44% in the Red Sea, 15% in the Gazira and River Nile.
• The nutrition situation in Sudan is poor, characterized by high levels of underweight and chronic malnutrition, as well as persistently elevated levels of acute malnutrition.
• Nationally, one third (31%) of children under the age of five years in Sudan is moderately or severely underweight.
• In southern Sudan, 32.8% of children under five were underweight.

 
 MDG 2 Achieve Universal Primary Education


• In Northern Sudan Gross Enrolment Rate (GER) has reached 71.1% with a wider disparity among states ranging from 93.75% in Khartoum down to only 36.1% in the Red Sea.
• 72% was the primary School Gross Enrolment Rate in Southern Sudan in 2009.
• In northern Sudan, considerable progress in literacy has been made as compared to its low rates of 27 .1% for adults in 1990. It was below 20% for women.
• Literacy rates have risen to 61% for both sexes in 2007. It has reached 71% for males and fell to 52% for females.

 MDG 3 Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women


• In northern Sudan the data on general education show modest progress and variations of girls’ education compared to boys.
• In the year 2008-2009, the percentage of boy's enrolment has dropped slightly from 29.6% to 29.4%, where as it improved from 26.3% to 29.9% for girls.
• There are considerable gender disparities among the 15 northern states in regard to enrollment in secondary education.
• In Northern Sudan, women occupy 28% of the seats in the newly elected parliament in 2010.
• Women in the national legislative council increased from 9.7% in 2004, to 25% in the recently elected assembly.

 MDG 4 Reduce Child Mortality


• Pneumonia, malaria, diarrhea, and malnutrition usually still represent the major causes of under-five illness and deaths.
• U5MR (Under five Mortality Rate) in North Sudan drop to 102/1000 L.B in 2006.
• IMR (Infant Mortality Rate) in North Sudan increased to 71/1000 L.B in 2006.
• The overall picture shows inter-regional variations, where (U5MR) in Blue Nile, South Kordofan, West Darfur and Red Sea reached 178, 147, 138 and 126 per 1000 L.B (SHHS 2006), respectively.
• IMR remained high in the same states mentioned above in addition to Ghadarif (86/1000 LB).
• In Southern Sudan the young children face daily threats from Malaria, diarrheal diseases, Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI), vaccine preventable diseases and malnutrition.
• In southern Sudan U5M declined from an estimated 250 per 1,000 live births in 2001 to 135 in 2006.

 
MDG 5 Improve Maternal Health


• In northern Sudan there is an observed instability in MMR levels.
• In the figures in 1990, 1999 and 2006 the rate of MMR was 537, 509 and 638 respectively.
• Delivery by trained personnel in Northern Sudan accounts for 57% of deliveries (national average 49.2%) while institutional deliveries account for 19.4% of all births.
• The total fertility rate was 5.1 births per woman in 2006 with marked differences between urban and rural areas.
• MMR (Maternal Mortality Ratio) in Southern Sudan stood at 1,989 deaths out of 100,000 lives.
• In southern Sudan only 10.02% of all births were attended by “skilled” health staff or Skilled Birth Attendants.

MDG 6 Combat HIV Aids, Malaria and other diseases


• The estimated HIV prevalence among the general population 15-49 years in North Sudan is 0.67%.
• The average HIV prevalence rate among pregnant women attending antenatal care (ANC) is 0.19%.
• In southern Sudan the provisional estimate of HIV prevalence among the general population is slightly over 3 percent.
• Only 4% of the respondents knew all the three ways to prevent HIV transmission in Sudan.
• Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Sudan.
• All states except Blue Nile (12.5%) and West Darfur (7.1%) reported prevalence of less than 3%.
• In northern Sudan, the percentage of households with at least one Insecticide Treated Net (ITNs) stood at 41% in 2009.
• Sudan carries 15% of the TB burden in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR).
• In 2009, the estimated incidence of new smear-positive TB cases was 60 per 100 thousand populations, translating to almost 18,536 new smear-positive cases.
• The actual detected were 8572 cases. This means a case detection rate of 46.2%.
• In Southern Sudan tuberculosis is one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity.

MDG 7 Integrate the principles of sustainable development into
country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources


• Sudan is endowed with huge and diversified natural resources, fertile land, natural forests, fresh water, biodiversity, wild and domestic animal stock, marine ecosystems, mineral and soil resources.
• Sudan has achieved total compliance to Montreal protocol objectives (total phase out) of Ozone depleting potential. Zero consumption of Coloro-Floro Carbon (CFCs) was achieved by 2010.
• The consumed water is used for irrigation 67%, industry 5%, human and livestock drinking and domestic use 28%. The evapo-transpiration losses account for 17%.
• In Northern Sudan access to safe drinking water has decreased to 58.7% and access to improved sanitation increased to 39.9% in comparison with the baseline year access figures.
• In Southern Sudan, less than half of the population (about 48.30%) had access to improved sources of drinking water, and unprotected wells were still the most important sources of water.
• In Southern Sudan, on average, only 6% of the households use sanitary means of excreta disposal.

 MDG 8 Develop a Global Partnership for development


• ODA declined from 7.2% in 2005 to 4.8% in 2008, with a sharp decline in the growth rate from 44.7% in 2005 to -16% in 2007 to – 5.6% in 2008.
• On average, most of the exports revenues of Sudan come from oil (86% of total) and the rest 14% from agricultural and other industrial and non-oil exports during 2000-2009.
• Regarding the affordability of medicines, on average, a lowest paid Sudanese government worker would generally need less than 1 day’s wages for most model treatments when using generics in any of the health sectors.
• The total external debt of Sudan in 2009 amounted to US$ 35.7 billion, showing an increase of about US$ 2,145 billion compared to 2008.
• In Sudan the estimated Telephone lines per 100 populations was 0.9 % of populations in 2009.
• In Sudan the estimated Cellular subscribers per 100 population 28 % of population in 2009.
• In Sudan the estimated Internet users per 100 populations was 10.4 % of Population in 2010.