Bangladesh's ranking in the global hunger index (GHI) improved slightly with a score of 19.4 this year, narrowly escaping the category of serious-hunger group.
The country ranks 84 out of127 countries, graduating to the category of moderate hunger from serious hunger groups in 2016, according to the 2024 GHI, which was made available on Tuesday, a day ahead of its scheduled release by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhlife (WHH).
It, however, says Bangladesh, Mozambique, Nepal, Somalia and Togo have made slight improvements in their GHI scores even though the hunger in these countries remain too high.
The GHI report makes it clear that the world is far from meeting the goal of achieving zero hunger by 2030.
"The Global Hunger Index (GHI) makes it starkly clear that the world is far from meeting that critical goal," the report discloses by comprehensively measuring and tracking hunger at the global, regional and country levels.
The report is prepared by assessing progress in reduction of all GHI indicators - undernourishment, child stunting, child wasting and child mortality. Many countries and territories are experiencing unprecedented levels of acute food insecurity, with potentially dire implications for their long term development.
Of the countries, 36 are at a serious hunger level and six others are at an alarming level. In 22 countries with moderate, serious or alarming scores, hunger has actually increased since 2016 while 20 countries with the same score remain stalled.
The GHI categorises below 9.9 score as low hunger, 10.0 to 19.9 as moderate, 20.0 to 34.9 serious, 35.0 to 49.9 as alarming and 50.0 to above extremely alarming.
Bangladesh's scores were 33.9 in 2000, 30.6 in 2008 and 24.7 in 2016.
The country's score improved due to improvement in the percentage of undernourished population and child mortality which are 11.9 per cent and 2.9 per cent respectively.
But a high percentage of 23.6 and 11.0 in the cases of stunt children and wasting children under five respectively place the country in high position.
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