{"id":85047,"date":"2020-10-17T15:44:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T10:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=17985"},"modified":"2021-06-25T15:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T10:00:20","slug":"india-fares-poorly-in-hunger-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-fares-poorly-in-hunger-index\/","title":{"rendered":"India fares poorly in hunger index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>News:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Global Hunger Index 2020 report has been released.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>About the index: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an annual report jointly published by Ireland\u2019s Concern Worldwide and Germany\u2019s Welthungerhilfe.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Aim:<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To measure and track hunger at the global, regional and country levels.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li>Indicators: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The four indicators for the index are:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Undernourishment (share of the population with insufficient caloric intake),<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">child wasting (low weight for height, reflecting acute undernutrition)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">child stunting (low height for age, reflecting chronic undernutrition) and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Child mortality rate under 5 years of age.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on the values of the four indicators, the GHI determines hunger on a 100-point scale where 0 is the best possible score (no hunger) and 100 is the worst.Each country\u2019s GHI score is classified by severity, from low to extremely alarming.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Key Takeaways:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India ranks 94 out of 107 countries in the Index lower than neighbours such as Bangladesh (75) and Pakistan (88).<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Child stunting:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> India has improved significantly from 54% in 2000 to less than 35% now.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Child wasting:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> India\u2019s child wasting rate is at around 17.3%.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Child mortality rates<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: India has improved in child mortality rates which is now at 3.7%<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Undernourishment: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has about 14% of the total population which gets an insufficient caloric intake.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Global Hunger Index 2020 report has been released. &nbsp; Facts: About the index: It is an annual report jointly published by Ireland\u2019s Concern Worldwide and Germany\u2019s Welthungerhilfe. Aim: To measure and track hunger at the global, regional and country levels. Indicators: The four indicators for the index are: Undernourishment (share of the population&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-fares-poorly-in-hunger-index\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India fares poorly in hunger index<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[1380],"class_list":["post-85047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-global-hunger-index","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700774503,"cached_date":1703686234},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}