The promises of the United Nations Millennium Summit, signed by all the world’s leaders, included halving extreme poverty, halting the spread of HIV/AIDS, and providing primary education for all children by 2015. Although good progress in meeting these goals has been made in Asia, in Africa there are now 140 million more people living in extreme poverty than there were in 1990.
世界各国领导人在联合国千年峰会上做出的承诺包括使极端贫困人口下降一半、制止HIV/艾滋病的传播以及到2015年前让所有儿童接受小学教育。尽管亚洲国家在这方面已经有了长足的进步，但在非洲国家，生活在极端贫困中的人口却比1990年增长了1亿4千万。