World Summit for Children, Goal 5
for children and development in the
1990s
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Universal access to sanitary means
of excreta disposal
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Trend
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5 percentage point increase with 747 million additional
people now having access.
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1990
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55% (2.9 billion)
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2000
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60%(3.6 billion)
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2010 goal
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33% increase
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Comments
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2.4 billion people still lack access,including half of
all people living in Asia.
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| Sources:United Nations,Report of the Secretary-
General,‘We the Children:End-decade review of the follow-up
to the World Summit for Children ’,A/S-27/3, United Nations,New
York,4 May 2001; United Nations, Preparatory Committee for
the Spec al Session of the General Assembly on Children,
‘A world fit for children ’, Rev sed draft outcome document
A/AC-256/ CRP.6/Rev.3,United Nations,New York, June 2001. |
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