By looking at figures from the 1990's to 2000, the United nations has found that That some of the countries in the Asia Pacific region will manage to achieve all the goals. Some (at their current rate) will achieve none of the goals and most will achieve some goals, but not all.

One of the most successful campaigns against poverty is in the Asia and Pacific region. Poverty has been reduced by between 34 and 24 percent. If the region can maintain this, they will definantly exceed the target of the 17% reduction in poverty. Unfortunately the region is not so successful at combating hunger. Since the late 1990's the proportion of people without enough food has decreased from 20% to 16% but at this rate it is not likely that the region will reach the target of halving the rate of hunger.

It is very difficult to judge the progress made in this area as data for the number of children attending school is hard to find, even in larger countries. However it is believed that progress has slowed in the Asia Pacific region with the current estimate at 93% of children attending school for the entire region. Whilst many countries will achieve this goal, others may well miss the target.

This is another area in which more progress will need to be made if the countries involved wish to achieve the goal. Statistics available in 46 of the 58 countries that make up the Asia Pacific region show that there is still a huge difference in the numbers of boys and girls attending primary school. In secondary schools the difference is less but still needs to be worked on. In general, there is still a tendency for discrimination against women - mostly by giving them typical female roles in both the workplace and home. Change is slow, but gradually women are receiving a fairer wage and rising to higher positions in the workplace but there are still few women in the field of politics.

There has been excellent progress in the Asia Pacific region toward this goal and the region should be able to achieve it. However it seems that 26 of the countries will fall short of the target, with children still dying from malnutrition and preventable diseases.

There seems to have been a severe lack of progress toward this goal but information is difficult to find. Most women are still dying from preventable problems and complications during childbirth. It is doubtful that the region will achieve this goal by 2015.

At the end of 2001, 7 million people across the Asia Pacific region were living with HIV/AIDS. In spite of this huge figure, the goal can still be achieved which has been proved by Thailand and Cambodia, both of which combined political, social and business resources to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS. Malaria and Tuberculosis are becoming more difficult to combat as drugs are becoming less effective. A program of education and prevention such as that used in Thailand would be most effective in helping the region to achieve the goal.

Deforestation and pollution are the two major problems in the region caused by industrial development. To deal with deforestation some countries have been able to replant many of the tress cut down, but in other parts of the region there continue to be massive amounts of forest cut down making this target for goal 7 difficult to achieve. Clean drinking water available in the Asia Pacific region has been estimated at 93% for cities and 75% for country areas. At the moment, little progress has been made and it is likely the region will miss this target entirely. Wastes from industry, agriculture, domestic fires and human waste all contaminate slums and make it increasingly difficult to achieve this target.

Trade in the region has improved drastically, with an increase in all countries since 1990. trade doubled in three countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia and Nepal. To help achieve the eighth goal, governments from less developed countries need to be able to rely on support and trade from the United Nations, richer countries in the Asia, private foundations and foreign governments. Countries in the Asia Pacific region also need the advantages technology of the western world can give them, especially information communication technology. This technology is not distributed fairly and not all countries in the region benefit from them, often countries with access to this technology have already achieve many of the Millennium Development Goals. If this technology was distributed fairly to the regions which needed it, its would allow them to improve education, reduce sickness and poverty and elevate women to an equal status. The Asia Pacific region will benefit most from the sharing of technology rather than the hording of it and this sharing would enable the region to achieve this goal, and help it to achieve others.

If the countries in this region continue to work hard toward the goals they will achieve the majority of them and by learning from the experiences of other countries, which are making faster progress this region will get to 2015 as a healthier and richer region.