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13/10/23 06:39 AM IST

Global Hunger Index 2023

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  • India ranked 111th out of 125 countries in the Global Hunger Index-2023 with the country reporting the highest child wasting rate at 18.7 per cent.
Major Findings
  • Afghanistan, Haiti and 12 sub-Saharan countries perform worse than India on the GHI.
  • India’s ranking is based on a Global Hunger Index score of 28.7 on a 100-point scale where 0 is the best score (no hunger) and 100 is the worst.
  • This categorises India’s severity of hunger as “serious”.
  • The GHI score is based on a formula which combines four indicators that together capture the multi-dimensional nature of hunger, including under-nourishment, child stunting, child wasting, and child mortality.
  • The 2023 GHI score for the world is 18.3, which is considered moderate.
  • However, it is only one point below the world’s 2015 GHI score of 19.1.
  • Globally, the share of people who are undernourished, which is one of the indicators used in the index, actually rose from 7.5% in 2017 to 9.2% in 2022, reaching about 735 million.
Global analysis
  • South Asia and Africa South of the Sahara are the world regions with the highest hunger levels, with GHI scores of 27.0 each, indicating serious hunger.
  • West Asia and North Africa is the region with the third-highest hunger level with a score of 11.9 indicating “moderate” hunger level.
  • Latin American and the Caribbean is the only region in the world whose GHI scores have worsened between 2015 and 2023.
  • East and Southeast Asia, dominated by populous China, has the second-lowest 2023 GHI score of any region in the report. China, for example, is among the top 20 countries that each have a GHI score of less than 5.
  • The region with the lowest 2023 GHI score is Europe and Central Asia, whose score of 6.0 is considered “low”.
Reasons for stagnation
  • According to the GHI 2023 report, the stagnation in the fight against global hunger is largely due “to the combined effects of overlapping crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, economic stagnation,
  • The impacts of climate change, and the intractable conflicts facing many countries of the world”.
  • It adds that the combination of these crises have led to a cost of living crisis and exhausted the coping capacity of many countries.
Source- The Hindu

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