India Ranks 94 Among 107 Countries in Global Hunger Index | Check Full List

New Delhi: India ranked 94 among 107 nations in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2020 and continues to be in the ‘serious’ hunger category. Last year, India’s rank was 102 out of 117 countries.

The Global Hunger Index data showed that 14 per cent of India’s population was undernourished. Besides, the country recorded a 37.4 per cent stunting rate among children under five and a wasting rate of 17.3 per cent. The under-five mortality rate stood at 3.7 per cent.

On the other hand, the neighbouring Bangladesh, Myanmar and Pakistan ranked higher than India in this year’s hunger index. While Bangladesh ranked 75, Myanmar and Pakistan are in the 78th and 88th position.

17 nations, including China, Belarus, Ukraine, Turkey, Cuba and Kuwait, bagged the top rank with GHI scores of less than five.

GHI Severity Scale
≤ 9.9 low	10.0–19.9 moderate	20.0–34.9 serious	35.0–49.9 alarming	≥ 50.0 extremely alarming

Check full list of countries here: 

Rank	Country	2000	2006	2012	2020
1-17*	Belarus	<5	<5	<5	<5
1-17*	Bosnia & Herzegovina	9.3	6.7	<5	<5
1-17*	Brazil	11.3	6.3	<5	<5
1-17*	Chile	<5	<5	<5	<5
1-17*	China	13.6	9.5	<5	<5
1-17*	Costa Rica	6.1	<5	<5	<5
1-17*	Croatia	<5	<5	<5	<5
1-17*	Cuba	<5	<5	<5	<5
1-17*	Estonia	5.9	<5	<5	<5
1-17*	Kuwait	<5	<5	<5	<5
1-17*	Latvia	7.0	<5	<5	<5
1-17*	Lithuania	6.1	<5	<5	<5
1-17*	Montenegro	—	5.5	<5	<5
1-17*	Romania	8.0	5.5	<5	<5
1-17*	Turkey	10.1	6.3	<5	<5
1-17*	Ukraine	13.0	<5	<5	<5
1-17*	Uruguay	7.5	6.8	5.0	<5
18	North Macedonia	7.5	7.7	6.7	5.2
18	Russian Federation	10.0	6.8	6.0	5.2
20	Argentina	6.3	5.6	5.2	5.3
21	Kazakhstan	11.4	12.3	8.1	5.4
22	Bulgaria	8.2	7.3	7.8	5.5
23	Tunisia	10.3	7.8	7.0	5.7
24	Albania	20.7	15.8	8.5	5.9
25	Azerbaijan	25.0	16.0	10.6	6.0
26	Georgia	12.3	8.9	<5	6.1
27	Slovakia	6.5	5.9	<5	6.4
28	Serbia	—	6.1	5.3	6.6
28	Trinidad & Tobago	11.1	11.4	10.8	6.6
30	Uzbekistan	24.4	16.9	12.7	6.7
31	Armenia	19.4	13.4	10.4	6.9
32	Dominican Republic	15.2	13.9	10.3	7.1
33	Panama	18.5	15.0	9.8	7.2
34	Peru	20.8	16.5	8.9	7.3
35	Colombia	10.9	11.5	9.1	7.5
35	Paraguay	12.1	11.6	9.6	7.5
35	Saudi Arabia	11.1	12.2	8.2	7.5
38	Mexico	10.1	8.4	7.4	7.7
39	Iran	13.5	8.9	7.6	7.9
40	Fiji	9.6	9.1	8.1	8.0
41	Jamaica	8.6	9.0	9.2	8.1
42	Kyrgyzstan	18.4	13.9	11.7	8.4
43	Jordan	10.8	8.1	8.6	8.8
44	Lebanon	11.6	13.3	12.4	8.9
44	Morocco	15.5	17.5	9.6	8.9
46	Algeria	14.5	11.7	9.0	9.0
47	Mauritius	15.0	13.6	12.3	9.3
48	Suriname	15.5	11.7	10.5	10.2
48	Thailand	17.8	12.3	12.7	10.2
50	El Salvador	14.7	12.1	10.4	10.5
51	Ecuador	19.7	19.0	16.3	11.0
52	Guyana	17.3	15.8	12.2	11.1
52	Turkmenistan	21.2	16.6	13.6	11.1
54	Egypt	16.4	14.4	15.3	11.9
55	Oman	14.8	16.0	11.6	12.2
56	Honduras	21.9	19.7	16.9	13.1
56	Mongolia	30.1	23.1	12.7	13.1
58	Nicaragua	22.3	17.1	14.6	13.2
59	Malaysia	15.5	13.3	11.8	13.3
60	South Africa	18.4	19.4	15.3	13.5
61	Viet Nam	26.3	21.9	16.5	13.6
62	Bolivia	27.6	23.2	16.8	14.0
63	Ghana	28.5	22.2	17.9	15.2
64	Sri Lanka	21.9	19.5	20.1	16.3
65	Iraq	24.0	24.0	21.1	17.1
65	Senegal	34.3	24.4	18.0	17.1
67	Gambia	29.2	28.0	22.7	17.8
68	Gabon	21.1	20.4	18.8	18.2
69	Philippines	25.0	20.4	20.4	19.0
70	Cameroon	36.4	31.0	23.2	19.1
70	Indonesia	26.1	29.5	23.1	19.1
70	Namibia	25.3	24.7	23.9	19.1
73	Nepal	37.4	31.0	22.8	19.5
74	Eswatini	26.1	24.1	17.8	20.3
75	Bangladesh	34.1	29.0	27.8	20.4
76	Cambodia	41.2	27.2	24.9	20.6
77	Guatemala	28.5	24.6	22.2	20.7
78	Myanmar	39.8	31.8	23.3	20.9
79	Benin	34.1	28.7	24.2	22.4
80	Botswana	28.2	27.3	22.4	22.6
80	Malawi	43.2	33.8	27.1	22.6
82	Mali	41.9	37.0	31.3	22.9
83	Venezuela	14.7	11.2	7.6	23.5
84	Kenya	37.4	31.4	23.2	23.7
85	Mauritania	32.0	29.0	23.7	24.0
86	Togo	39.3	36.7	26.6	24.1
87	Côte d’Ivoire	33.6	34.7	30.1	24.5
88	Pakistan	37.2	33.5	32.8	24.6
89	Tanzania	40.8	33.6	30.0	25.0
90	Burkina Faso	45.7	46.3	31.1	25.8
91	Congo	33.8	34.7	27.8	26.0
92	Ethiopia	53.7	43.6	35.5	26.2
93	Angola	64.9	47.0	35.9	26.8
94	38.9	37.5	29.3	27.2
94	Sudan	—	—	32.5	27.2
96	Korea (DPR)	39.5	33.1	28.2	27.5
97	Rwanda	49.7	38.1	26.0	28.3
98	Nigeria	40.6	34.1	32.0	29.2
99	Afghanistan	51.0	42.8	33.8	30.3
100	Lesotho	36.0	30.4	24.6	30.7
101	Sierra Leone	58.3	53.3	42.4	30.9
102	Liberia	48.0	40.0	33.1	31.4
103	Mozambique	48.1	38.4	31.4	33.1
104	Haiti	41.9	43.6	35.9	33.5
105	Madagascar	42.7	41.4	34.6	36.0
106	Timor-Leste	—	46.1	36.2	37.6
107	Chad	50.9	51.3	47.9	44.7
ND	Bahrain	—	—	—	—
ND	Bhutan	—	—	—	—
ND	Burundi	—	—	—	—
ND	Central African Republic	—	—	—	—
ND	Comoros	—	—	—	—
ND	Dem. Rep. of the Congo	—	—	—	—
ND	Djibouti	—	—	—	—
ND	Equatorial Guinea	—	—	—	—
ND	Eritrea	—	—	—	—
ND	Guinea	—	—	—	—
ND	Guinea-Bissau	—	—	—	—
ND	Lao PDR	—	—	—	—
ND	Libya	—	—	—	—
ND	Moldova	—	—	—	—
ND	Niger	—	—	—	—
ND	Papua New Guinea	—	—	—	—
ND	Qatar	—	—	—	—
ND	Somalia	—	—	—	—
ND	South Sudan	—	—	—	—
ND	Syrian Arab Republic	—	—	—	—
ND	Tajikistan	—	—	—	—
ND	Uganda	—	—	—	—
ND	Yemen	—	—	—	—
ND	Zambia	—	—	—	—
ND	Zimbabwe	—	—	—	—

Notably, the Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a tool for comprehensively measuring and tracking hunger at global, regional, and national levels. GHI scores are based on the values of four component indicators: undernourishment (share of the population with insufficient caloric intake), child wasting (share of children under age five who have low weight for their height, reflecting acute undernutrition), child stunting (share of children under age five who have low height for their age, reflecting chronic undernutrition), and child mortality (mortality rate of children under age five, partly reflecting the fatal mix of inadequate nutrition and unhealthy environments).

Based on the values of the four indicators, the GHI determines hunger on a 100-point scale where 0 is the best possible score (no hunger) and 100 is the worst. Each country’s GHI score is classified by severity, from low to extremely alarming.