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Global Hunger Index 2023:With an 18.7 percent child squandering rate, India ranked 111th out of 125 countries on the Global Hunger Index-2023. The nation also had the highest child wasting rate.
Thursday marked the release of the index. In 2022, India fell to the 107th rank out of 121 countries.
The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a comprehensive instrument utilized to assess and monitor starvation on a national, regional, and international scale.
A report utilizing the Global Hunger Index-2023 indicates that India is confronted with a severe level of starvation, as evidenced by its score of 28.7.
Sri Lanka (60th), Pakistan (102nd), Bangladesh (81st), and Nepal (69th) are India’s neighboring countries that have performed better on the index.
the Africa and South Asia The world’s regions with the most severe hunger are located south of the Sahara; each has a GHI score of 27, which denotes severe hunger.
“At 18.7 percent, India has the highest child wasting rate in the world, which is indicative of severe malnutrition,” the index-based report stated. The measure of wasting is the weight of minors in relation to their height.
The index indicates that the undernourishment rate in India was 16.6%, while the under-five mortality rate was 3.1%.
The report additionally indicated that 58.1% of women between the ages of 15 and 24 were affected by anemia.
According to the 2023 Global Hunger Index (GHI), despite significant strides made in addressing starvation on a global scale until 2015, the situation has largely stalled since then.
The global GHI score for 2023 is 18.3, which is categorized as moderate and falls short by less than one point compared to the score of 19.1 achieved in 2015.
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In addition, one of the indicators used to calculate GHI scores, the prevalence of undernourishment, has increased since 2017; the number of undernourished persons has increased from 572 million to approximately 735 million, according to the index.
