- India ranked 111th out of 125 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2023.
- India slipped four spots in the Global Hunger Index 2023. India has been ranked at 111.
- In the 2022 ranking, India was in the 107th position out of 121 countries.
- ‘Concern Worldwide’ and ‘Welt Hungerhilfe’, two NGOs from Ireland and Germany, have released this report.
- India has a score of 28.7 in the latest ranking, which shows a serious level of hunger.
- As per the index, India also has the highest child-wasting rate in the world at 18.7 per cent.
- The rate of undernourishment in India stood at 16.6 per cent and under-five mortality is at 3.1 per cent.
- The prevalence of anaemia in women aged between 15 and 24 years stood at 58.1 per cent.
- South Asia and Africa are the world regions with the highest hunger levels.
- India’s neighbouring countries Pakistan (102nd), Bangladesh (81st), Nepal (69th) and Sri Lanka (60th) are ahead of India.
- As per the 2023 Global Hunger Index (GHI), after many years of advancement up to 2015, the progress against hunger is stagnant.
- The 2023 GHI score for the world is 18.3. It is less than the world’s 2015 GHI score of 19.1.
- Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, China, Hungary, Estonia, etc. are among the top 20 countries of this ranking.
- Central African Republic, Madagascar and Yemen are at the bottom of the ranking.
- Climate change, conflicts, economic shocks, the global pandemic, and the Russia-Ukraine war have increased social and economic inequalities and slowed or reversed the progress against hunger.
- The Indian government has rejected the report of this year and termed the methodology of the report preparation faulty.
