Super Power India Ranks 94 Among 107 Countries in Global Hunger Index 2020

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India Ranks 94 Among 107 Countries in Global Hunger Index 2020
India ranks lower than most of its South Asian neighbours.

A child has his breakfast at a flood relief camp in Purniya district town in Bihar in this September 8, 2008 file photo. Photo: Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri/Files

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New Delhi: India now ranks 94th among 107 countries in terms of hunger, and continues to be in the ‘severe’ hunger category according to the Global Hunger Index 2020. According to the study, 14% of India’s population is undernourished.
Last year, India’s GHI rank was 102 out of 117 countries. South Asia and Africa South of the Sahara have the worst hunger conditions among global regions, the GHI found.
The GHI is “a tool designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger at the global, regional, and national levels”. Data from the United Nations and other multilateral agencies are used for the calculation.
India ranks lower than most of its South Asian neighbours – Pakistan (88), Nepal (73), Bangladesh (75), Sri Lanka (64) and Myanmar (78) – and only Afghanistan fares worse, at 99th place. The statistics for Bhutan are not available.
Also read: Are We Entering a New Phase of Increasing Hunger?

South Asia has the highest child wasting rate for any region, and India is the worst performer. At 17.3%, India’s child wasting rate is only slightly better than it was last year, at 20.8%. Child stunting is also extremely high across South Asia. “Data from 1991 through 2014 for Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan showed that stunting is concentrated among children from households facing multiple forms of deprivation, including poor dietary diversity, low levels of maternal education, and household poverty,” the report found.

Source: GHI 2020

One positive in the report on India is the reduction in under-five mortality. However, this doesn’t mean the problem is over: “India—the region’s most populous country—experienced a decline in under-five mortality in this period, driven largely by decreases in deaths from birth asphyxia or trauma, neonatal infections, pneumonia, and diarrhea. However, child mortality caused by prematurity and low birthweight increased, particularly in poorer states and rural areas. Prevention of prematurity and low birthweight is identified as a key factor with the potential to reduce under-five mortality in India, through actions such as better antenatal care, education, and nutrition as well as reductions in anemia and oral tobacco use,” the study recommends.
According to the 2020 GHI, no country that has been ranked falls in the “extremely alarming” category on hunger. Three countries – Chad, Timor-Leste and Madagascar – have come under the “alarming” category.

India Ranks 94 Among 107 Countries in Global Hunger Index 2020

India ranks lower than most of its South Asian neighbours.

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Indian governments are generally more concerned about India's image in the world rather than feeding their hungry masses. Successive Indian governments focused more on improving their image through propaganda campaigns such as shining India than feeding their poverty stricken people. Well, propaganda cannot fill the tummy of poor masses and it cannot stop poor farmers from killing themselves out of hunger. You may be able to deceive the world in believing that India does not have the largest block of poverty stricken masses in the whole world. But you cannot remove the poverty by such gimmicks.

 

[Beidou2020]

When will India stop humiliating itself on a daily basis? These jokers are a laughing stock.

 

[YeBeWarned]

Well they did elect a mass murderer to public office.....

You are a Modi Hater, he made Ram mandir

 

[siegecrossbow]

The Rafale deal cost over 9 billion dollars. Imagine how much bread you could buy with that much money.

 

[TheSnakeEatingMarkhur]

Pakistan is no better at 88th position.

Pakistan has been getting better since last 3 to 4 years we have been dropping down India on other hand going up

 

[siegecrossbow]

Well, china has no hunger issues. chinese can eat anything and everything.

 

[SuperStar20]

For chinese, anything and everything is food.

 

[siegecrossbow]

For chinese, anything and everything is food.

Only for strong stomachs. Indian man eats insects and worms | Daily Mail Online

John Peter, 23, can stomach gut-wrenching insects that also include caterpillars, lizards, ticks, grasshoppers, spiders, frogs, dragonflies, snails, scorpions and ants. And now he is working on being the first person to eat the most earthworms in a minute.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[bafxet]

Jai hind.
Modi Zindabad
Rafale zindabad

 

[SuperStar20]

Only for strong stomachs. Indian man eats insects and worms | Daily Mail Online

John Peter, 23, can stomach gut-wrenching insects that also include caterpillars, lizards, ticks, grasshoppers, spiders, frogs, dragonflies, snails, scorpions and ants. And now he is working on being the first person to eat the most earthworms in a minute.

www.dailymail.co.uk

In India it is a news if one person eats weird stuff. But in china is it is normal. Anything and everything is food in china.

 

[Dungeness]

In India it is a news if one person eats weird stuff. But in china is it is normal. Anything and everything is food in china.

Just in case you have been misled by your media, some Chinese eat weird stuff for the bragging right, but India, it seems people eat weird stuff simply because they are hungery. Hope you are capable of knowing the difference.

 

[siegecrossbow]

In India it is a news if one person eats weird stuff. But in china is it is normal. Anything and everything is food in china.

In India even when you eat weird stuff you still have worse hunger than North Korea.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

No surprises India is here today, considering its history on hunger

Afterall its dunderheaded leaders caused a Massive famine in the late 50s leading to eradication of some 35 million undesirables, all while its leadership was deluding its masses with posters of prosperity

Even more degenerate was its leadership with fantasies of being space power


Imagine all the people that could have been saved had Indian leadership spent the money for this noisy nuclear submarine instead of feeding its people

All while China was having a Green revolution and became a food exporter
Green Revolution in China

 

[Beidou2020]

In India even when you eat weird stuff you still have worse hunger than North Korea.

Forget North Korea, India should be compared to Africa in terms of overpopulation, lack of sanitation, disease, starvation.

 

[SuperStar20]

Just in case you have been misled by your media, some Chinese eat weird stuff for the bragging right, but India, it seems people eat weird stuff simply because they are hungery. Hope you are capable of knowing the difference.

We (Indians) don't eat anything and everything. That is the reason it is news if anyone eats them.
For chinese nothing is weird. anything and everything is food.