Global Hunger Index 2019 List
The ghi is designed to raise awareness and understanding of the struggle against hunger.
Global hunger index 2019 list. The global hunger index ghi is a tool designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger at the global regional and country levels. Seventeen countries including belarus ukraine turkey cuba and kuwait. Global hunger index 2019 report. Full list belarus bosnia and herzegovina bulgaria chile costa rice croatia cuba estonia kuwait latvia lithuania montenegro romania slovak republic turkey ukraine uruguay brazil argentina kazakhstan north macedonia russian federation mexico tunisia china serbia colombia albania.
Last year indias rank was 102 out of 117 countries. India ranked 102 out of 117 countries in the global hunger index ghi 2019 that is placed at much below to its south asian neighbours such as nepal bangladesh. The 2019 ghi measures hunger in 117 countries where the assessment is most relevant and where data on all four component indicators are available. India is ranked 102 of 117 countries in the global hunger index 2019 behind its neighbours nepal pakistan and bangladesh.
It is published every october. By calling attention to the issue we hope that this report will help to increase the commitment and resources dedicated to ending hunger worldwide. The global hunger index was first produced in 2006. According to the 2019 ghi of the countries for which data are available four suffer from levels of hunger that are alarming and one country the central african republic suffers from a level that is extremely alarming.
The four countries with alarming levels of hunger are chad madagascar yemen and zambia.