The 2022 Global Hunger Index, which was published on Friday, put India 107th out of 121 nations. India was placed 101st out of 116 nations in 2021.
India has performed worse than its neighbours Pakistan (99th), Nepal (81st), and Bangladesh for the second year in a row (84th). Afghanistan, which was placed 109th on the hunger index, was only two positions higher than India.
The index calculates the global rates of hunger and malnutrition. This year’s report accessed data from 136 countries, but only 121 of them were given a grade. According to the study on the index, there is not enough information available for the remaining nations.
Undernourishment, child wasting (the percentage of children under five with low weight for their height), child stunting (children under five with low height for their age), and child mortality are the four indicators used to create the Global Hunger Index score (the mortality rate of children under the age of five).
With a score of 29.1 on the global hunger index, India is classified as having “severe” hunger issues. India’s score increased marginally from 27.5 previous year. India’s score was a lot better 38.8 points in 2000, though.
Other hunger classifications include “low,” “moderate,” “frightening,” and “very alarming,” in addition to “severe.”
“India’s proportion of undernourished in the population is considered to be at a medium level, and its under-five child mortality rate is considered low,” the report said. “While child stunting has seen a significant decrease – from 54.2% in 1998-1999 to 35.5% in 2019–2021 – it is still considered very high. At 19.3% – according to the latest data – India has the highest child wasting rate of all countries covered in the GHI.”
Globally, the top rank was shared by 17 nations, including China, Hungary, Montenegro, Uzbekistan, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. This year, no nation has been classified as extremely worrying.
The African region south of the Sahara and South Asia are the regions with the highest levels of hunger, according to the report, which also stated that worldwide progress against hunger has largely stagnated in recent years.
“The situation [globally] is likely to worsen in the face of the current barrage of overlapping global crises – conflict, climate change, and the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic –all of which are powerful drivers of hunger,” it said. “The war in Ukraine has further increased global food, fuel, and fertilizer prices and has the potential to contribute to food shortages in 2023 and beyond.”
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