The Google LatLong Blog announced Google Earth has added the “Millennium Development Goals” layer within the “Global Awareness” folder. To access it, open Google Earth, open the “Global Awareness” folder, and click the checkbox next to “UNDP: Millennium Development Goals Monitor.”

Then you should see blue “MDG” icons throughout the map, if you zoom in enough. Here is a screen capture of Venezuela:

Venezuela ranks number 72 on the “Human Development Index” at Statistics of the Human Development Report from the UNDP.

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