GHI REPORT 2013

• The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI) has been brought out by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and two international charities Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide. 
• Calculated for 120 countries

 INDICATORS USED:

• The three indicators used are:
• The proportion of people who are undernourished
• The proportion of children under five who are underweight
• The mortality (death) rate of children younger than age five.

 HIGHLIGHTS:

• The number of hungry people in the world was estimated at 842 million in 2011-13 
•  About a quarter of the world's hungry, or 210 million, are in India alone.
• In India the proportion of undernourished declined from about 21% of the population to 17.5%, the proportion of underweight children declined from 43.5% to about 40% and under-five mortality declined from 7.5% to about 6%.

 The number of hungry people appears to have declined slightly from the 870 million estimated in 2010-12, but the current GHI report says that this is due to a recalculation of how undernourishment is measured by the UN-linked Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Since 2006, the absolute number of undernourished people has remained unchanged but their proportion to total world population is declining because the world population is growing.