Ministry of Women and Child Development say.. the index is related to children, and cannot be representative of the entire population.. https://www.livemint.com/news/india/india-drops-further-down-global-hunger-index-to-rank-111th-reports-highest-child-wasting-rate-11697120484216.html India with a score of 28.7 ranked 111th of 125 countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2023, according to a report released on Thursday. The country's Ministry of Women and Child Development has said that the rankings are "flawed" and did not depict India's true position. The index is an erroneous measure of hunger and suffers from serious methodological issues. Three out of the four indicators used for the calculation of the index are related to the health of children and cannot be representative of the entire population. (foot in mouth disease!) The fourth and most important indicator Proportion of Undernourished population (PoU) is based on an opinion poll conducted on a very small sample size of 3,000," the ministry said in a statement. (
The GHI ranked Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka at 102nd, 81st, 69th, and 60th, respectively. In 2022, India ranked 107th out of 121.