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Global Hunger Index-2020

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India performs poorly in the Global Hunger Index 2020

About the Global Hunger Index  

  • GHI is a peer-reviewed report released annually by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI),  Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe  
  • GHI is a tool for comprehensively measuring and tracking hunger at global, regional, and national levels. 
  • GHI scores are based on the values of four component indicators: 
    1. undernourishment (share of the population with insufficient caloric intake)
    2. child wasting (share of children under age five who have low weight for their height, reflecting acute undernutrition)
    3. child stunting (share of children under age five who have low height for their age, reflecting chronic undernutrition), and 
    4. child mortality (mortality rate of children under age five, partly reflecting the fatal mix of inadequate nutrition and unhealthy environments).
  • Based on the values of the four indicators, the GHI determines hunger on a 100-point scale where 0 is the best possible score (no hunger) and 100 is the worst.
  • Each country’s GHI score is classified by severity, from low to extremely alarming

Performance of countries around the world

The index measures that nearly 690 million people are undernourished; 144 million children suffer from stunting, a sign of chronic undernutrition; 47 million children suffer from wasting, a sign of acute undernutrition; and in 2018, 5.3 million children died before their fifth birthdays, in many cases as a result of undernutrition.

  • Worldwide hunger is at a moderate level, according to the 2020 Global Hunger Index. 
  • Africa, South of the Sahara and South Asia have the highest hunger and undernutrition levels among world regions, with 2020 GHI scores of 27.8 and 26.0, respectively—both considered serious.
  • According to 2020 GHI scores, 3 countries have alarming levels of hunger – Chad, Timor-Leste, and Madagascar. 
  • Hunger is also considered to be alarming in 8 countries – Burundi, Central African Republic, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen – based on provisional categorizations
  • According to the index, the world is not on track to achieve the second Sustainable Development Goal – known as Zero Hunger for short – by 2030.


Status of India

  • India as the highest prevalence of ‘wasted children under five years in the world
  • In total, India ranks 94 out of 107 countries in the Index, lower than neighbours such as Bangladesh (75) and Pakistan (88). 2020 scores reflect data from 2015-19.

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