To ask the Secretary of State for International Development in which countries where Millennium Development Goals have been deemed to have been achieved there has been a statistically significant increase in life expectancy. (270027)

The Department for International Development (DFID) looks to United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) to monitor the Millennium Development Goals and to UNICEF to monitor associated indicators such as life expectancy. According to UNSD, to date four countries have met all the Millennium Development Goals (excluding Goal 8) and they have all experienced an increase in life expectancy as shown in the following table.

The differences in life expectancy are statistically significant.