Which of the following Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) had the highest number of targets?

AGoal 5: Improve maternal health

BGoal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS

CGoal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

DGoal 8: Develop a global partnership for development ✓ Correct

Correct answer: (D) Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

Explanation

MDG 8, developing a global partnership for development, carried the most targets among the goals.

Its targets spanned aid, trade, debt relief, technology access and medicine affordability.

Goal 5 on maternal health had fewer, focused targets on reducing maternal mortality.

Goal 6 on HIV/AIDS covered disease control with a limited set of targets.

Goal 7 on environmental sustainability had four targets, still fewer than Goal 8.

The eight MDGs ran from 2000 to 2015 and were succeeded by the SDGs.

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