Global Hunger Index

About Global Hunger Index

• It is a tool for comprehensively measuring and tracking hunger at global, regional, and national levels.
• It is prepared jointly by Irish aid agency Concern Worldwide and German organisation Welt Hunger Hilfe.

How it is calculated? 

• GHI scores are based on the values of four component indicators
• Undernourishment:(the share of the population whose caloric intake is insufficient)
• Child stunting: (the share of children under the age of five who have low height for their age)
• Child wasting: ( the share of children under the age of five who have low weight for their height)
• Child mortality: (the share of children who die before their fifth birthday)
• The GHI score is calculated on a 100-point scale reflecting the severity of hunger, where zero is the best score (no hunger) and 100 is the worst.

Key findings of GHI-2023

• India’s ranking is based on a Global Hunger Index score of 28.7 on a 100-point scale.
• This categorises India’s severity of hunger as “serious”.
• The 2023 GHI score for the world is 18.3, which is considered moderate.
• Latin American and the Caribbean is the only region in the world whose GHI scores have worsened between 2015 and 2023.
• South Asia and Africa South of the Sahara are the world regions with the highest hunger levels, with GHI scores of 27.0 each.

Q1: What is Child mortality?

Child mortality refers to the number of children who die before reaching the age of five per 1,000 live births. It is a critical indicator of a region's overall health and well-being and is often used to assess the quality of healthcare, nutrition, sanitation, and other factors affecting child survival.

Source: India ranks 111 out of 125 countries in Global Hunger Index