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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India's Hunger Problem Explained Through Charts

India's Hunger Problem Explained Through Charts

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published Published on Oct 15, 2017   modified Modified on Oct 15, 2017
-TheWire.in

India is one of the countries with the “lowest reduction in hunger” in the nine years since the last Global Hunger Index was calculated.

India is still scraping the barrel to feed it’s hungry. According to the new global hunger rankings by the Global Hunger Index (GHI), India has been ranked 100 out of 119 countries. India’s performance on the GHI is described by the report as being “serious” in its severity. It is one of the countries with the “lowest reduction in hunger” in the nine years since the last index was calculated.

Only 19 countries fared worse than India on hunger reduction. In Asia, Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries worse off than India, ranked at 106 and 107 respectively. The rest are largely in Africa and include Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Yemen and the Central African Republic, which fared the worst.

Countries doing better than India on hunger reduction include India’s neighbours such as China, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh (ranked at 29, 72, 84, 88 respectively) and Brazil, Mexico, Iran, Venezuela, Iraq, Nigeria and North Korea.

The GHI looks at hunger in a multi-dimensional way, giving countries a consolidated score based on four indicators – undernourishment, child wasting, child stunting and child mortality. As a tool, it measures hunger at global, regional and national levels. Three out of its four indicators are specific to children, also to those under the age of five. The report was earlier published in 1992, 2000 and 2008 by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe.

The report defines hunger as “the distress associated with lack of sufficient calories.”

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TheWire.in, 14 October, 2017, https://thewire.in/187429/indias-hunger-problem-explained-charts/


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