Global hunger index 2022 pakistan rank

The report of the Global Hunger Index (GHI) for the year 2022 has been released, in which its neighbours are Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh in a better position than India. In this report released regarding the ranking of 121 countries, India is at 107th position while its neighbouring country Pakistan is at 99th position. In this list, the country in the best position in South Asia is Sri Lanka.Sri Lanka, which is facing economic problems, has been ranked 64th in this index. Global Hunger Index 2022 The GHI, which lists countries by “severity,” has given India a score of 29.1, which falls into the “serious” category of the level of hunger. The list, which ranks Yemen lowest at 121, has 17 collective top-ranking nations – the differences in their severity score are minimal. China and Kuwait are the Asian countries that top the list, dominated by European nations such as Croatia, Estonia and Montenegro. The GHI score is calculated on four indicators: malnutrition; child wasting (the proportion of children under five years of age who are underweight for their height, reflecting acute malnutrition); child stunting (children under five who are short for their age, reflecting chronic malnutrition); and infant mortality (the mortality rate of children under the age of five). India’s neighbouring country Nepal is at 81st place while Bangladesh is at 84th place. Except for only one neighbouring country, Afghanistan, the condition of all is better than India in the Hunge...

ISLAMABAD: While the world is off-track in the fight against hunger and moving further away from the binding goal of ending hunger by 2030, the 2021 Global Hunger Index (GHI) showed that over the years, Pakistan has shown improvement as the country was ranked 92nd out of 116. GHI is a peer-reviewed report published by the Concern Worldwide of Ireland and Welthungerhilfe (WHH) every year since 2007 to track hunger across the globe. An event, to launch the chapter regarding Pakistan, was organised at a local hotel on Tuesday and attended by the nutrition section of the Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) Secretariat in the planning ministry. The sources of data to compile the report every year essentially include the Demographic and Health Surveys of Pakistan (DHSP) and nutrition-related surveys in the country, carried out by or led by the government. Data reveals alarming rise in number of hungry, poor people It is worth mentioning that developed countries are not included in the survey so the report is based on the situation of developing and under-developed countries. This year, data of only 116 countries was available. As per the report, the country considered to have a reduced ratio of hunger is close to zero and ones close to 100 are considered to have a higher hunger ratio. This year, Pakistan with a score of 24.7 is ranked 92 out of 116 countries with sufficient data available. India has been ranked at 101 but other countries of the region showed better ranking as compared to...

Do you want our notes for one-paper MCQs tests for CSS 2022-23 and General Recruitment Tests? NOTABLE FACTS: • Pakistan has an estimated population of over 220 million in 2021, and a growth rate of 1.95 per cent per year. Adding 5.28 million people per year to its population, it is projected to surpass Indonesia in size around the year 2048. Population growth remains one of the biggest challenges for Pakistan’s development, with 60 per cent of its population below the age of 25, and a fertility rate at 3.5 births per woman. This means that providing education, health and employment for a large and growing youth cohort will remain an issue for the foreseeable future. • Pakistan also has one of the highest rates of urbanisation in South Asia. Urban areas have expanded immensely between 1995 and 2015. For instance, it has been estimated that various urban sectors convert 3,016 hectares of agriculture lands annually for urban uses in metropolitan Lahore, and if this rate doesn’t slow, by 2030 all agricultural land at the fringes of cities will be urbanised. • The World Food Programme says that 21 per cent of Pakistan’s population is malnourished, 44 per cent of children under five years old have stunted growth, and 37 per cent of the population faces food insecurity, despite Pakistan being a major producer of wheat and rice. • Pakistan has major water shortages. It is ranked 14th out of 150 countries at high risk of water crisis. Water Aid notes that 17 million people in Pakis...