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Over the past two years, the impacts of ongoing regional conflicts, climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Russian-Ukraine war have drastically weakened the world’s already inadequate, unsustainable food systems. This confluence of factors has induced in supply chain disruptions and high and volatile prices for food, fertilizer, and fuel, and the result has been the third global food crisis in less than two decades. According to the An estimated 828 million people worldwide were undernourished in 2021, a number which has continued to climb since 2017 after almost a decade of decline. The 2022 GHI, which ranks hunger levels on four indicators (undernourishment, child stunting, child wasting, and child mortality), scored global hunger in 2021 at 18.2 – only a small decline from its 2014 rank (19.1), which highlights the world’s lack of progress in ending hunger. Unless these trends change, the report states, the world will not be able to reach a low hunger ranking – less than 9.9 – by 2030. As the world faces a moderate hunger ranking, the situation is far worse in many regions and individual countries. Both South Asia and Africa South of the Sahara (SSA) received serious hunger scores in 2021 (27.4 and 27.0, respectively). South Asia experienced the highest child stunting and child wasting rates, while SSA saw the highest rates of undernourishment and child mortality. In both regions, conflict has been a major driving factor of rising hunger levels in many countries...

GLOBAL HUNGER INDEX SCORES BY 2022 GHI RANK Note: As always, rankings and index scores from this table cannot be accurately compared to rankings and index scores from previous reports (see Rank in 2022 Country 2000 2007 2014 2022 Absolute change since 2014 Percent change since 2014 1-17 1 2.5<5 2.5<5 2.5<5 2.5<5 zz — zz — 1-17 1 9.3 6.6 2.5<5 2.5<5 zz — zz — 1-17 1 2.5<5 2.5<5 2.5<5 2.5<5 zz — zz — 1-17 1 13.3 7.8 2.5<5 2.5<5 zz — zz — 1-17 1 2.5<5 2.5<5 2.5<5 2.5<5 zz — zz — 1-17 1 2.5<5 2.5<5 2.5<5 2.5<5 zz — zz — 1-17 1 5.5 2.5<5 2.5<5 2.5<5 zz — zz — 1-17 1 2.5<5 2.5<5 2.5<5 2.5<5 zz — zz — 1-17 1 5.6 2.5<5 2.5<5 2.5<5 zz — zz — 1-17 1 5.4 2.5<5 2.5<5 2.5<5 zz — zz — 1-17 1 99 — 5.4 2.5<5 2.5<5 zz — zz — 1-17 1 7.5 7.2 2.5<5 2.5<5 zz — zz — 1-17 1 7.9 5.8 5.1 2.5<5 zz — zz — 1-17 1 99 — 6.1 5.8 2.5<5 zz — zz — 1-17 1 7.0 5.9 5.7 2.5<5 zz — zz — 1-17 1 10.1 5.8 2.5<5 2.5<5 zz — zz — 1-17 1 7.4 6.5 2.5<5 2.5<5 zz — zz — 18 7.0 2.5<5 2.5<5 5.3 zz — zz — 18 6.2 6.5 5.9 5.3 2.9 -0.6 bl -10.2 20 11.4 7.1 5.0 5.4 ae0.4 cz 8.0 21 24.2 15.4 8.3 5.6 1.2 -2.7 ac -32.5 22 12.3 7.8 6.1 5.7 3.1 -0.4 bw -6.6 22 30.0 21.8 9.2 5.7 0.75 -3.5 aa -38.0 24 8.6 7.9 7.4 5.9 2.3 -1.5 al -20.3 24 11.2 11.6 5.8 5.9 ab 0.1 cs 1.7 26 10.3 7.6 6.7 6.1 2.9 -0.6 bo -9.0 27 20.7 15.8 9.2 6.2 1.0 -3.0 ab -32.6 28 10.1 7.1 6.7 6.4 3.2 -0.3 cb -4.5 29 13.7 8.8 7.4 6.5 2.7 -0.9 bd -12.2 30 11.0 12.2 7.4 6.7 2.8 -0.7 bn -9.5 31 6.6 5.5 5.0 6.8 am 1.8 dj 36.0 32 14.5 11.4 8.7 6.9 2.1 -1.8 aj -20.7 32 19.3 ...

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a tool designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger and undernutrition at global, regional, and national levels. It is designed to raise awareness and understanding of the fight against hunger, and call attention to those areas of the world where hunger levels are highest and where the need for additional efforts to eliminate hunger is greatest. Global Hunger Index 2022: Bleak outlook in the face of overlapping crises The Global Hunger Index 2022 reveals a dramatic hunger situation worldwide. The world is facing a serious setback in efforts to end hunger. Conflict, the climate crisis and the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic – compounded by the war in Ukraine – are major drivers of hunger. This is worsened by underlying factors for hunger, such as structural inequality and power asymmetries in the food system. The situation is expected to deteriorate further as global crises overlap. In the absence of fundamental changes, the Global hunger, measured by a Global Hunger Index score of 18.2, is categorized as moderate in 2022. Compared to the 2014 value (19.1), it has decreased only slightly. Since 2014, hunger has increased in 20 countries with moderate, serious, or alarming 2022 GHI scores across multiple regions. Globally, too many people still suffer from hunger and, in fact, the global prevalence of undernourishment, one of the GHI's four indicators, is rising again after decades of decline. As many as 828 million peo...