1. African Proverb
The hunger of one…
is the shame of all.

2. 2010 Global
Hunger Index
October 2010

3. Why a Global Hunger Index?
• To raise awareness of regional and country differences
in hunger
• To help learn from successes and failures in hunger
reduction
• To provide incentives to act and improve international
ranking
• To focus on one major hunger-related topic every year
Targeted to policymakers, donors, media, public

4. • Ranking is a powerful
tool.
• Other sectors use it
successfully too.
• It gets public and
professional attention.
• A special subject can be
highlighted.

5. GHI measures three dimensions of hunger
• Undernourishment
• Child underweight
• Child mortality

6. Countries ranked on a 100 point scale
Minimum and maximum values not observed in practice

7. How up-to-date are the data?

8. GHI ranks regions by hunger prevalence
(lowest to highest)
2010
Latin America and the Caribbean
Near East and North Africa
Southeast Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Asia

9. Regional performance and progress

10. Country performance by severity
Alarming or extremely alarming levels of hunger in 29 countries

11. Country progress since 1990

12. Winners and losers from 1990 GHI to 2010 GHI
Countries with both GHI 1990 and GHI 2010 less than five are excluded

13. Gross national income and the Global Hunger
Index in countries of South and Southeast Asia

14. Fighting the crisis of early childhood
undernutrition
• Child underweight contributes nearly half of the points (7.4
of 15.1) to the world GHI score.
• South Asia: Child underweight accounts for > half the score.
• Sub-Saharan Africa: Child underweight has improved very
slightly from 1990 to 2010 (from 27 to 24 percent).
• Countries need to accelerate progress in improving child
nutrition in order to improve their GHI scores.

16. The perilous 1,000 days
-9 to 24 mo Weight-for-height
Weight-for-age
Height-for-age

17. Height-for-age by region
Europe & Central Asia
Latin America & the
Caribbean
North Africa & the
Near East
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Asia

18. Determinants of child undernutrition and
interventions to address them

19. Policy recommendations
• Target nutrition interventions to the window of
opportunity.
• Tackle the underlying conditions that cause undernutrition.
• Foster gender equity.
• Prioritize nutrition in political and policy processes.
• Engage, empower, and ensure sustained support for local
actors in the area of nutrition.

20. • Available from
www.ifpri.org/publication
/2010-global-hunger-index
• In English, German,
Spanish, French, and Italian
• Embed interactive world
hunger map
• Wikipedia and Google
Books
• Available as interactive e-
book for Kindle, iPad, and
mobile phone