By: LakshmiPS
Bangladesh has ranked 88 in the Global Hunger Index 2019 of 117 countries with a GHI score of 25.8.
Seventeen countries, including Belarus, Ukraine, Turkey, Cuba and Kuwait, shared the top rank with GHI scores of less than five, the website of the Global Hunger Index that tracks hunger and malnutrition said on Wednesday.
The report, prepared jointly by Irish aid agency Concern Worldwide and German organisation Welt Hunger Hilfe termed the level of hunger in Bangladesh “serious”.
The country scored decelerated compared to the 30.3 in 2010, but it is still better than neighbours Pakistan (94) and India (102). Sri Lanka ranked 66 while Myanmar and Nepal ranked 69 and 73 respectively.
China (25) has moved to a ‘low’ severity category and Sri Lanka is in the ‘moderate’ severity category.
The GHI score is calculated on four indicators — undernourishment; child wasting, the share of children under the age of five who are wasted (that is, who have low weight for their height, reflecting acute undernutrition); child stunting, children under the age of five who have low height for their age, reflecting chronic undernutrition; and child mortality, the mortality rate of children under the age of five.
(With PTI inputs)
