Global Hunger Index Calculation
- October 16, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Global Hunger Index Calculation
Subject – Governance
Context – Centre questions Global Hunger Index
Concept –
- Global Hunger Index — prepared by Ireland-based aid agency Concern Worldwide and Germany-based Welt Hunger Hilfe — has ranked India at 101 down from 94 in 2020.
- India’s neighbours China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are positioned above the country.
- Global Hunger Index tracks hunger at global, regional, and national levels.
- Each country’s GHI score is classified by severity, from low to extremely alarming.
- With a score of 27.5, India has a level of hunger that is serious.
- The score in the index is based on four component indicators such as undernourishment, child wasting, child stunting and child mortality.
- Undernourishment data are provided by the Food and Agriculture Organisation.
- Child mortality data are sourced from the U.N. Interagency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.
- Child wasting and stunting data are drawn from the joint database of UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the World Bank, among others.
- The Centre also argued that the FAO methodology is unscientific. They have based their assessment on the results of a ‘four question’ opinion poll, which was conducted telephonically by Gallup. There is no scientific methodology to measure undernourishment like availability of food grains per capita during the period.
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