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Global Hunger Index 2019:-

The 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI) has ranked India 102 among the 117 countries. In 2018, India was pegged at 103 among 119 countries.
India is one of the 47 countries that have “serious” levels of hunger.
The 2019 GHI report has found that globally the number of hungry people has risen from 785 million in 2015 to 822 million.
Multiple countries have higher hunger levels now than in 2010, and about 45 countries are set to fail to achieve ‘low’ levels of hunger by 2030.

What is the Global Hunger Index?

It is an index categorizing countries on a scale ranging from “low” hunger to “moderate”, “serious”, “alarming”, and “extremely alarming”.
A low score gets a country a higher ranking and implies better performance.
The reason for mapping hunger is to ensure that the world achieves “Zero Hunger by 2030” — one of the Sustainable Development Goals laid out by the United Nations.
It is for this reason that GHI scores are not calculated for certain high-income countries.
It is brought out almost every year by Welthungerhilfe (German NGO) since 2000.

How does GHI measure hunger?

GHI tracks the performance of different countries on four key parameters that capture multiple dimensions.
For each country in the list, the GHI looks at four indicators:

a. Undernourishment (which reflects inadequate food availability): Calculated by the share of the population that is undernourished.

b. Child Wasting (which reflects acute undernutrition): Calculated by the share of children under the age of five who are wasted (low weight for their height).

c. Child Stunting (which reflects chronic undernutrition): Calculated by the share of children under the age of five who are stunted (low height for their age).

d. Child Mortality (which reflects both inadequate nutrition and unhealthy environment): Calculated by the mortality rate of children under the age of five.