India ranks 111th among 125 countries in Global Hunger Index

India is ranked 111th out of 125 countries in the 2023 Global Hunger Index released on Thursday.

The country scored 28.7 on a scale of 100 where 0 is the best score and 100 is the worst. The index, published by non-governmental organisations Concern Worldwide and Welt Hunger Hilfe, categorised India’s severity of hunger as serious.

The Global Hunger Index score is calculated on four indicators – undernourishment, child wasting (the share of children under the age of five with low weight for their height), child stunting (children under the age of five with low height for their age) and child mortality (the mortality rate of children under the age of five).

The NGOs said that the report can only be compared to 2000, 2008 and 2015 as data is revised each year and the set of countries included in the ranking changes.