India ranks 101 in Global Hunger Index 2021
- India’s rank has dropped to 101st position among 116 countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2021. In 2020, India was placed at 94th spot, out of 107 countries..
- The 2021 GHI score of India is recorded at 27.5 out of 50, which comes under serious category.
- The Global Hunger Index (GHI) measures and tracks hunger at global, regional, and national levels.
- The index is published jointly by Welthungerhilfe (WHH) and Concern Worldwide.
- Based on current GHI projections, the index states that the world as a whole will not achieve a low level of hunger by 2030.
Top Country
- A total of 18 countries, including China, Kuwait and Brazil, shares the top rank. The GHI score of these 18 nations is less than 5. This means that these countries suffers very less from hunger and malnutrition.
GHI scores are determined based on values of four indicators:
- undernourishment (share of the population with insufficient caloric intake),
- child wasting (share of children under age five who have low weight for their height, reflecting acute undernutrition),
- child stunting (share of children under age five who have low height for their age, reflecting chronic undernutrition), and
- child mortality (mortality rate of children under age five, partly reflecting the fatal mix of inadequate nutrition and unhealthy environments).
The level of severity of GHI score is grouped into following 5 categories
- ≤ 9.9 – low severity
- 10.0–19.9 – moderate severity
- 20.0–34.9 – serious severity
- 35.0–49.9 – alarming severity
- ≥ 50.0 – extremely alarming severity
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Source: Global Hunger Index