India ranked 97th out of 118 countries on the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) Global Hunger Index (GHI) in 2016, behind Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, among others, but ahead of Pakistan and three other Asian countries.
India had only the fifth highest rank in the whole of Asia, better than only North Korea (98), Pakistan (107), Timor-Leste (110) and Afghanistan (111).
Nepal (72), Sri Lanka (84), and Bangladesh (90) had higher ranks among 96 countries than India’s. Also, India had the lowest rank among BRICS nations, with Brazil in the top 16, Russia at 24, China at 29 and South Africa at 51.
In 2013, India’s position was rated as “alarming”, but, it has shown some improvement in recent years, the report noted. In 2016, India scored 28.5 on the GHI index, up from 36 in 2008. Since 2000, the country has reduced its GHI score by a quarter
GHI is based on a country’s performance on indicators such as the proportion of the undernourished in the population, prevalence of wasting in children under five years, prevalence of stunting in children under five years and the under-five mortality rate
Data presented in the report showed that on each of these indicators, India has made progress over the past few years. At the end of 2016, around 15 per cent of the country’s population was undernourished, down from 17 per cent at the end of 2009.
Similarly, prevalence of wasting in children has declined from 20 per cent in 2010 to 15 per cent in 2015. Stunting in children below the age of five has also declined from 48 per cent to 38.7 per cent, while the under-five mortality rate has declined from 6.6 to 4.8 over the same period.
India was positioned at 80 out of 104 countries in 2015
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