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.
