With the score of 19.6 in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2022, Bangladesh falls into the moderate category, thus, bemcoming the 84th out of the 121 countries taken into consideration.
The country has shown significant improvement of 25.5% from 2014 when its GHI score was 26.3, considered serious, reads a press release.
In the last two decades, Bangladesh showed an improvement by 40% from a GHI score of 34.1 in 2000 but continued to be in the 'serious' category, the report said.
The GHI assigns the scores in five severity levels – low (9.9 or less), moderate (10.0-19.9), serious (20.0-34.9), alarming (35.0-49.9) and extremely alarming (50 or higher).
The Global Hunger Index measures and tracks the hunger level globally, regionally and nationally to trigger actions for reducing hunger across the globe. The scoring process is based on four components – undernourishment, child wasting, child stunting and child mortality.
