This illustrates that the progress in reaching the MDGs has been uneven for the LDCs. Moreover, even in countries where good progress has been made toward the MDGs, there are often glaring disparities between rural and urban areas, between the rich and the poor, between women and men, and between girls and boys. These include reducing hunger, ensuring that girls and boys reach the last grade in primary education, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, and providing basic sanitation. The performance among the individual countries does not vary much, with most countries requiring renewed efforts to achieve the majority of the MDG targets.