Global Hunger Index

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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