Success was measured using three main metrics: the under-five mortality rate, the infant mortality rate, and the proportion of one-year-old children immunized against measles.
1. Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4): Reduce Child Mortality
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were eight international development targets for the year 2015. specifically focused on reducing child mortality.
To reduce the under-five mortality rate (U5MR) by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.
While significant progress was made—global child deaths dropped from roughly 12.7 million in 1990 to 5.9 million in 2015—the goal of a two-thirds reduction was not met globally. 2. The mod(mdg4) Gene Locus Dmel\mod(mdg4) - FlyBase Gene Report