Bangladesh ranks 75 in Global Hunger Index

Bangladesh is in the serious hunger category of the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2020, and ranks 75th among 107 countries, according to a GHI report.

In 2019, Bangladesh ranked the 88th position in the GHI list of 117 countries.

Besides, India ranked 94 among 107 nations in the Global Hunger Index 2020 and was in the 'serious' hunger category with experts blaming poor implementation processes, lack of effective monitoring, siloed approach in tackling malnutrition and poor performance by large states behind the low ranking.

Last year, India's rank was 102 out of 117 countries.

Neighbouring Myanmar and Pakistan too were in the 'serious' category but ranked higher than India in this year’s hunger index.

Myanmar and Pakistan were in the 78th and 88th position respectively.

Nepal in 73rd and Sri Lanka in 64th position were in 'moderate' hunger category, the report showed.

Seventeen nations, including China, 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 Friday.

According to the report released on Friday, 14 percent of India's population was undernourished.

It also showed the country recorded a 37.4 percent stunting rate among children under five and a wasting rate of 17.3 percent.

The under-five mortality rate stood at 3.7 percent.