{"id":264396,"date":"2023-10-13T03:10:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T03:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=264396"},"modified":"2023-10-14T03:15:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T03:15:37","slug":"india-ranks-111-out-of-125-countries-in-global-hunger-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-ranks-111-out-of-125-countries-in-global-hunger-index\/","title":{"rendered":"India ranks 111 out of 125 countries in Global Hunger Index"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article \u201c<\/span><b>India ranks 111 out of 125 countries in Global Hunger Index\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 12th October 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2023 has been released.India has been ranked 111 out of a total of 125 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Global Hunger Index (GHI)?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/global-hunger-index-and-indias-stand\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the key findings of the Global<\/b><b> Hunger Index(GHI) 2023 related to India?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>India&#8217;s Rank<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: India has been ranked 111 out of a total of 125 countries in 2023.India ranked 107th out of 121 countries in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>India&#8217;s Score:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> India\u2019s ranking is based on a Hunger Index score of 28.7 on a 100-point scale where 0 is the best score (no hunger) and 100 is the worst.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 This categorizes India\u2019s severity of hunger as \u201cserious\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>India&#8217;s Nutritional Indicators:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s child wasting rate at 18.7% was the highest in the world during 2018\u201322.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The rate of undernourishment in India stood at 16.6 per cent and under-five mortality at 3.1 per cent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The prevalence of anaemia in women aged between 15 and 24 years stood at 58.1 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Comparison with Neighboring countries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: India\u2019s neighboring countries, Pakistan (102), Bangladesh (81), Nepal (69th), and Sri Lanka (60) have performed better than India in the index<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Countries which performed worse than India: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Afghanistan, Haiti and 12 sub-Saharan countries performed worse than India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>South Asia and Africa South of the Sahara <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are the world regions with the highest hunger levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Government of India&#8217;s reaction to the GHI 2023?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ministry of Women and Child Development has criticized the GHI 2023 report on the following grounds:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Firstly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the way GHI measures hunger is flawed because th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ree out of the four indicators are related to the health of children <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which don&#8217;t represent the entire population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Secondly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the key indicator, &#8220;Proportion of Undernourished Population,&#8221; is based on a small 3,000-person opinion poll.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Thirdly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> child wasting as shown on the Poshan Tracker has consistently been below 7.2%.This contradicts the GHI 2023&#8217;s figure of 18.7%.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia ranks 111 out of 125 countries in Global Hunger Index\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 12th October 2023 What is the News? The Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2023 has been released.India has been ranked 111 out of a total of 125 countries. 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